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NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites have been providing infrared, microwave and visible imagery of Tropical Cyclone Fani as it continued to move northward along the eastern coast of India....

Few of the universe's residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. These limelight-hogging celestial objects combine whirling, pinwheeling arms with scatterings of sparkling stars, glowing bursts of gas, and dark, weavi...

NASA is preparing to send astronauts on journeys that will include longer stretches in microgravity - to the Moon and onward to Mars....

The FAA office charged with overseeing commercial space transportation is planning a reorganization that will seek the make the office more efficient, but could mean the end of some of its work promoting the industry. Sp...

The request, issued May 3, suggests it is increasingly unlikely that the agency will make a decision in the first half of the year as satellite operators had previously expected. SpaceNews.com

Spaceflight startup Rocket Lab will launch three small satellites for the United States Air Force early Saturday morning (May 4), and you can watch the action live.

NASA's Space Launch System aims to carry humans far beyond Earth.

The Hubble Legacy Field, the result of 16 years of observations and the most detailed image of our Universe, has been released! The post 16 Years of Hubble Images Come Together in this one Picture Containing 265,000 Gala...

The enduring, and maybe endearing, mystery around Mars is what happened to its water? We can say with near-certainty now, thanks to the squad of Mars rovers and orbiters, that Mars was once much wetter. In fact that plan...

It's a nightmare (fictional) scenario to imagine: a large asteroid headed directly for a major American city less than eight years after astronomers spotted the space rock.

Actor Peter Mayhew, Star Wars's original iconic Chewbacca, died on April 30 at 74 surrounded by his family at his North Texas home, his family announced Thursday on his Twitter.

Our week through the lens: 30 April - 3 May 2019

An international scientific team led by a Mexican researcher discovered globular clusters rotating at the same speed as the gas in the disk of the spiral galaxy Messier 106 (also known as M106 or NGC 4258) to which they ...

Let's say you've got some random object in front of you -- how about a nice hot cup of coffee?

Life may have traveled to Earth from afar, aboard an interstellar visitor like the weird, cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua.

Astronomers found a 2,000-year-old cosmic fossil embedded in a field of stars -- likely leftover from an explosion that Chinese astronomers saw and wrote about long ago.

Southern Hemisphere skywatchers, look up in the early hours of May 5 to spot the Eta Aquarid meteor shower at its peak. Northern Hemisphere viewers may catch a few special shooting stars, too.

Researchers may have already glimpsed the first-known exomoon—a satellite of a planet orbiting another star; but confirmation of that potential discovery could be many years away --

In this week's edition, explore the Ries crater in southern Germany with Copernicus Sentinel-2

SpaceX postponed the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a used Dragon cargo ship for NASA Friday (May 3) due to an issue with the mission's drone ship landing pad in the Atlantic Ocean. The next launch try will be Satu...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NGC 2903 is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion), and was studied as part of a Hubble survey of the central regions of roughly 145 nearby dis...

Researchers have found a new way to use satellites to monitor the Great Whirl, a massive whirlpool the size of Colorado that forms each year off the coast of East Africa, they report in a new study....