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NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold caught a spectacular view of Typhoon Soulik swirling toward southern Japan from his post on the International Space Station.

Arabidopsis plants are pictured before being harvested inside the Plant Habitat-01 housed inside Europe's Columbus laboratory module....

Lockheed Martin recently provided a first-look at the space habitat they are designing, as part of NASA's program to return astronauts to the Moon and sending crewed missions to Mars. The post Lockheed Martin Shows off i...

Director Rory Kennedy's "Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow," a new documentary about NASA's 60 years of space exploration, including the agency's study of Earth, is set to screen in theaters before airing on D...

Where were you on Aug. 21, 2017? On this day last summer, millions of Americans flocked to a 70-mile-wide (113 kilometers) path that stretched across the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina to watch as the moon's shadow m...

Vice President Mike Pence, with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, will visit NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Thursday, Aug. 23, to discuss the future of human space exploration and the agency's plans to return t...

From the vantage point of space, astronaut Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency reminds us of the the beauty and wonder of our planet.

It is a tale of North and South with an astronomical twist, with a UNSW astronomer and a UNSW PhD alumnus heading from Antarctica to the Tibetan Plateau to help find the best site for a new, 12-metre optical telescope.

Imagine if the color camera had never been invented and all our images were in black and white. The world would still look beautiful, but incomplete. For thousands of years, that was how humans saw the universe. On Earth...

A pair of German experiments took place aboard the International Space Station today including a space exercise study and the installation of an Earth spectral sensor....

There is a beautiful mystery in the sky, and its name is Steve.

Galaxies abound in this spectacular Hubble image; spiral arms swirl in all colors and orientations, and fuzzy ellipticals can be seen speckled across the frame as softly glowing smudges on the sky. Each visible speck of ...

European astronomers have recently conducted a study of a star-forming dwarf galaxy candidate located in the halo of the galaxy NGC 4634. The new research, presented in a paper published August 8 on the arXiv pre-print s...

The launch of the world's first satellite was the birth of the Space Age.

The ethereal glow from the sun's corona is just one reason scientists and skywatchers are looking forward to the 2024 total solar eclipse.

A year ago, scientists and amateurs across the U.S. scrambled to gather precious data about the sun during the Great American Solar Eclipse -- and today, many of the same people are eagerly following NASA's first mission...

Data from the long-awaited Aeolus mission will address a major gap in the global forecasting system --

Researchers have confirmed the presence of the frozen stuff on the ground at and around the lunar north and south poles, a new study reports.

The Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) is debuting a set of new badges to encourage girls ages 5 to 18 to explore, observe and investigate the universe like "real space scientists," the organization announced last month.

Solar scientists look back on what we've learned in the year since the Great American Solar Eclipse.

Stratolaunch announced Aug. 20 that it is developing a family of vehicles, including a reusable spaceplane, that could launch from the giant aircraft it is developing. SpaceNews.com

The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time using data from ESA's star mapping spacecraft Gaia and its predecessor, the quarter-century retired Hipparcos satellite.