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The Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS) unit recently launched for the ISS, where it will be integrated and provide a home for the station's robotic helpers. The post Astronauts are Going to Attach a “Robot Hotel” to the Out...

The first results to come down from NASA's record-setting Parker Solar Probe have impressed the pioneering astrophysicist who lent the spacecraft his name.

Astronomers have discovered a large Neptune-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is four times bigger than the star, and the white dwarf appears to be slowly destroying the planet: the heat from the white...

The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is on its way to the International Space Station packed with science and supplies for the Expedition 61 crew....

The third season of the space history series "Cosmos" will premiere on on the National Geographic Channel March 9, the network has announced.

Students from New Mexico will have an opportunity next week to talk with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station.

Kacific said it recently secured $160 million from the Philippines-based Asian Development Bank and GuarantCo, a European- and Australian-government backed infrastructure investment organization, along with other financi...

A new easy-to-read guide, '10 New Insights in Climate Science' has been presented to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa, at the COP25 climate conference.

Video: 00:54:35 Station on 6 December 2019. The call was made from Stockholm, Sweden, at the start of Nobel Week festivities. ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang moderated the conversation between two of the Nobel Prize lau...

Live pitch events are one of several avenues the Air Force is pursuing to attract U.S.-owned startups and commercial businesses that are breaking new ground in space technology. SpaceNews.com

Image: ESA's latest space mission has reached orbit. The Qarman CubeSat flew to space aboard SpaceX's Dragon launched from Florida, USA, on Thursday 5 December, ahead of a planned rendezvous with the International Space ...

A Russian Progress freighter launched atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early this morning (Dec. 6), carrying 2.7 tons of food, propellant and other supplies toward the orbiting lab.

Gravitational waves leave behind a memory -- a permanent bend in space-time -- as they pass through. We are now on the verge of being able to detect that memory, allowing us to push our understanding of gravity to the li...

The Mandalorian director Jon Favreau addresses the lack of Baby Yoda toys for the holidays.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Long ago, millions of years before the first star sparked to life, the entire universe was a sea of darkness.

Rocket Lab successfully launched several smallsats Dec. 6 on an Electron mission also designed to test technologies to make the rocket's first stage reusable. SpaceNews.com

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine used a Dec. 5 speech on Capitol Hill to implore Congress to finish a fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill for NASA as soon as possible to give the agency funding to proceed on a lunar l...

Space travelers sleeping in hibernation chambers before continuing with their missions, whether to go on a trip to Jupiter or hunt down an extraterrestrial creature. The concept was first imagined in the 20th century bef...

A fine coffee froth does not last forever. The bubbles that make the milk light and creamy are eventually torn apart by the pull of gravity. But there is a place where foams have a more stable life - in the weightless en...

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso deep in the Amazon interior. This image combines three separate radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission taken ...

Video: 00:02:33 In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, theCopernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us overpart of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso deep in the Amazon interior.See alsoMato Grosso, Brazilto...