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Atomic clocks have traveled to space before. But no one has ever managed to make one this accurate tick up there before.

Ten more satellites for Iridium Communications have been successfully launched into orbit.

The Siberian area of Russia is experiencing a huge wave of wildfires in their taiga forests. Hot, dry weather complicates the outlook for getting these fires under control....

Engineers have made some progress in restoring the performance of the key instrument on a weather satellite launched earlier this year, but have yet to fully correct the problem or determine its root cause, NOAA announce...

According to a new study by a team from the University of Michigan, Andromeda survived a merger with a massive galaxy 2 billion years ago. The post Andromeda Shredded and Consumed a Massive Galaxy About Two Billion Years...

The sky is no longer the limit for lovers looking for unusual ways to commemorate their nuptials, with a Japanese company now offering to blast commemorative wedding plaques into space.

NASA will announce on Friday, Aug. 3, the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, and begin a new era in American spaceflight. NASA Administ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope is of one the most ambitious and technically complex missions NASA has ever set its focus upon. Building an infrared observatory of this magnitude, power and complexity has never been attem...

For three years, Jenny Calahan led fellow undergraduate students at the University of Arizona (UA) in research to help unravel the mystery of how the galaxy's most massive stars are born.

Earth’s Moon may have once been habitable—but that does not mean it was ever inhabited --

Wilson: Org charts are not that important, "It's all about the ability to fight." SpaceNews.com

Evidence for the Red Planet's watery past is prevalent across its surface in the form of vast dried-out river valley networks and gigantic outflow channels clearly imaged by orbiting spacecraft....

The House Science Committee approved July 24 a modified version of a space weather forecasting bill that the Senate passed last year amid criticism of the committee's approach to the legislation.

A NASA astrophysics mission that passed a key milestone after making cost reductions is studying potential additional cuts to one of its instruments.

A massive underground lake has been detected for the first time on Mars, raising the possibility that more water--and maybe even life--exists there, international astronomers said Wednesday.

Data from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured the dynamic movement of the Sun's atmosphere for over 20 years. Today, we can hear the Sun's movement--all of its wa...

This moonscape scene shows a cluster of impact craters on the moon.

Four delightful videos showcase NASA's ocean-watching PACE mission with moving mosaics, stop-motion animation and jazz.

In a new video, NASA announces a small satellite's big milestone: It has produced the first map of ice clouds across the world.

Video highlights of the launch campaign putting Galileo satellites 23-26 into orbit

Members of the X-ray astronomy working group at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics (AIP) and an international team have published the first catalogue of X-ray sources in multiply observed sky regions. The catalogue c...