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The International Space Station was orbiting 267 miles above the south Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand when this photograph was taken from a window on the seven-windowed cupola....

Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 66 Commander Anton Shkaplerov (upper right) works outside the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a spacewalk that lasted seven hours and 11 minutes....

A new data release from a gravitational wave consortium has revealed indications of the long sough-after gravitational wave background (GWB). The post Astronomers Might Have Detected the Background Gravitational Waves of...

A global search for dark matter turns up nothing, but than in itself is useful. The post A Worldwide Search for Dark Matter Fails to Turn up a Signal for This Mysterious Particle appeared first on Universe Today.

Last month, an Ariane 5 rocket carried the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) safely to space, the latest of 112 total launches for the European Space Agency's (ESA) primary workhorse rocket. With a 95.5% success rate, th...

SpaceCast Weekly is a NASA Television broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston featuring stories about NASA's work in human spaceflight....

A commercial mission returning cargo from the space station, the first space station spacewalk of the year, and observing a massive volcanic eruption from space... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NA...

If Earth were to stop spinning but continue to orbit the sun, a "day" would last half a year, and so would the night.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) just upgraded the software it uses to assess potentially hazardous asteroids

A new animation of Earth shows vegetation taking up and releasing carbon in sync with the seasons.

Thomas Pesquet is a European Space Agency astronaut who was the first person from France to command the International Space Station.

Space-based solar power is an idea that has been studied for decades. But even though the United States was a pioneer in this technology, government interest in taking it from the lab to orbit has been tepid at best. The...

Mid-winter in North America often brings blasts of cold wind blowing south from the Arctic or the Canadian interior....