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New NASA satellite imagery captured a hot lava flow from fissure 8 of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano....

Koichi Wakata, the Japanese space agency's vice president and director general for human spaceflight technology, is intimately familiar with the International Space Station. As an astronaut, he helped assemble the space ...

"Mars, Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus--Mercury, that's the one I really wanted to see," said Chu Owen as he used an app on his mobile phone to locate planets above.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The MUREP Innovations in Space Technology Curriculum (MISTC) awards align with the priorities of the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), which is responsible for developing the crosscutting, pioneering ...

NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Colorado Boulder for the management and operations of the agency's Earth Observing System Data and Information System Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)...

Skywatchers around much of the world have begun watching a complete lunar eclipse that is the longest of this century.

Using 13 years of data obtained by Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), the Cassini imaging team has produced some of the most detailed images of Titan to date. The post Titan Looks Cool in Infrared...

From flooding in New Orleans to coffee cultivation in Guatemala and wildfires in Alaska, NASA Earth observations from space are being put to work helping address a wide range of real-world issues.

The French space agency CNES has agreed to allocate an additional 10 million euros ($11.7 million) to further the economic and social development of French Guiana, the South American territory home to Europe's spaceport....

"Taking advantage of breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), satellite imaging, and high-resolution simulation the 'Earth Machine' aims to change how climate models render small-scale phenomena such as sea ice and...

NASA interns, visitors at New Mexico's City of Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science, and NASA's Wallops Flight Facility will speak with astronauts aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA's Year of Educa...

A Montreal science museum recently acquired a 3.8-billion-year-old moon rock for a new exhibit about water in the solar system, but getting it from Houston to Canada was not an easy endeavor.

"Wilderness" might bring to mind sprawling forests in national parks like Yosemite and Yellowstone, but there is a second wilderness--the world's seas. Now, for the first time, researchers have systematically mapped out ...

Uncertainty over the timing of the orbiting outpost's retirement and the eventual transition to one or more new platforms is making it challenging for companies to attract investors and plan for the future. SpaceNews.com

Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a journey that would take Americans to the moon within a decade.

The dust is finally beginning to clear on Mars, but it'll probably still be a while before NASA's sidelined Opportunity rover can phone home.

Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai came back to earth last month but is still dreaming of space, especially after the discovery of an underground lake brought mankind one step closer to unravelling the mystery of life on...

The United States has vowed to send the first humans to Mars by the 2030s, but space experts and lawmakers on Wednesday expressed concern that poor planning and lack of funds will delay those plans. President Donald Trum...

In an international collaboration between Japan and Sweden, scientists clarified how gravity affects the shape of matter near the black hole in binary system Cygnus X-1. Their findings, which were published in Nature Ast...

For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across the entire firmament. In the modern era, Galileo Galilei discovered that this Milky Way consists of countless stars. However, it ...

Our week through the lens: 23 - 27 July 2018