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Between drafting plans to protect Earth from giant asteroids, laying the groundwork for the Deep Space Gateway, and testing a new...

Every good space crew needs a great astrogator. Charting a course through stars and debris fields is a lot harder than driving...

According to NASA, the announcement of the Orion marked the first time in a generation that NASA had unveiled a spacecraft built for...

Let's face it: most of us will never get the opportunity to go to space. Space tourism is on the way in the near future, but unless...

The best way to learn something new about an object is to get up close and personal with it. Scientists know a fair bit about...

If Chris Hadfield's recording sessions aboard the ISS didn't impress you, how about a zero-gravity tennis throwdown? Yesterday, NASA...

It took a little over three months, but NASA is reporting that its $830 million InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic...

Astronauts may soon be cruising the stars in style, thanks to aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin and the new plans they...

Scientists have speculated about the existence of water (especially ice) on Earth's Moon for years, and recent studies of meteorites...

People have spotted all kinds of strange things on Mars, from supposed cannonballs to "walled cities," but most are usually...

On August 12, NASA launched its Parker Solar Probe into space from Cape Canaveral with a little help from a United Launch Alliance...

In a post on Facebook this past weekend, NASA's Meteor Watch group shared information about a fireball that lit up parts of Alabama...

Right now, there's a life-or-death drama going on in one of NASA's control rooms as scientists and technicians desperately wait for a...

Most people imagine space as a giant, empty void, but it turns out there's a lot more "stuff" floating around than we expected...

If you think losing a $20 bill to a washing machine is painful, try putting yourself in NASA's shoes. The space agency lost contact...

Jupiter has long held stargazers in thrall with swirling tiger stripes punctuated by a carnelian storm. Now scientists from the United...

Two of Jupiter’s moons are generating electromagnetic waves up to one million times stronger than their host planet.Scientists are...

We're still waiting for NASA's TESS satellite to significantly grow the list of known exoplanets, but that doesn't mean that...

When Icarus ignored Daedalus' warning not to fly to close to the sun, things didn't end well for the hapless flyer. This weekend, NASA...

You need to see this.NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched the official start of its mission to scan the skies...