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Astronauts living and working onboard the International Space Station enjoy one of the most stunning views of planet Earth -- and fortunately for the rest of us, they're generous in sharing the spectacle.

The US space agency has ordered a sweeping safety review of operations and workplace culture, including drug-free policies, at Boeing and SpaceX, two companies working to send astronauts to space, US media said Tuesday.

Electronic threats against satellite communication have rapidly escalated in the last few years and will continue to advance in the foreseeable future. SpaceNews.com

Thanks to a recently-observed supernova in a distant galaxy, astronomers have been able to find what type of star leads to a Type Ic supernova. The post Astronomers Finally Spot the Type of Star That Leads to Type 1C Sup...

The obvious conclusion from Harrison's study is that the size and budget of a new military service for space can vary considerably depending on the scope of the reorganization. SpaceNews.com

As Congress works to finalize a fiscal year 2019 spending bill for NASA, a senator is asking colleagues to secure the future of two of NASA's largest astrophysics missions. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have gleaned some of the best data yet on the composition of a planet known as HR 8799c--a young giant gas planet about 7 times the mass of Jupiter that orbits its star every 200 years.

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Mars is about to get its first U.S. visitor in years: a three-legged, one-armed geologist to dig deep and listen for quakes.

The fully assembled International Space Station is a wonder of engineering. But its fully completed elements only occurred after a series of assembly flights from multiple countries. Here, we'll take you on a brief tour ...

Radio waves from our Milky Way galaxy are reflected across the surface of the moon in a stunning new image.

SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has announced he is changing the name of his monster rocket BFR, aimed at carrying people to the Moon and possibly one day to Mars, to "Starship."

They say there’s more than one way to skin an interstellar cat, and in astronomy there’s more than one way to find alien exoplanets orbiting a distant star. With the recent shut-down of NASA’s prolific Kepler missi...

NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos are celebrating the space laboratory's 20th anniversary with a fantastic series of photos that capture the scale and awe of this one-of-a-kind spacecraft.

Take a trip around our planet with the longest continual timelapse from the International Space Station - celebrating its 20-year anniversary

Pangaea-X tests exploration technology at a simulated Moon base on Lanzarote

Astrophysicists of the University of Zürich, ETH Zürich and the NCCR PlanetS show how the icy moons of Uranus were born. Their result suggests that such potentially habitable worlds are much more abundant in the Univer...

As NASA starts to build up details about its plans to return humans to the moon, the agency is studying concepts for "human-class" lunar landers that would involve three-stage vehicles whose individual components could b...

James Carter would be the first to admit that he is a children's book writer, not a scientist.

Paul Sutter's new book, "Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence" (Prometheus Books, 2018), takes readers on an informative and entertaining tour of their cosmic home. Read an excerpt here.

Astrophysicist Paul Sutter's new book, "Your Place in the Universe" (Prometheus Books, 2018), takes readers on a far-reaching tour of the cosmos and explains how scientists tackle the biggest of questions.

Scientists have identified 24 ancient lakes on Mars that once overflowed and burst through their walls, forming steep-sided canyons -- and NASA's Mars 2020 rover will explore the neighborhood of one of these paleolakes, ...