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There are many mysteries about the enigmatic ringed gas giant, but the curious mechanism behind Saturn’s ‘spokes’ is one of the more intriguing puzzles....

Canada's astronaut star Chris Hadfield wowed the Internet last year when he posted a YouTube music video of David Bowie's epic 'Space Oddity' while actually living in space. Now, it's going away....

The flight crew for the X-15 which was developed to provide data on aerodynamics, structures, flight controls and the physiological aspects of high speed, high altitude flight....

Visualized through supercomputers, the violent dance of intergalactic gas, stars, dust and dark matter forms a large spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way. A few smaller galaxies are ‘eaten’ along the way....

A senior Russian official said he would ban exports of Russian-made rocket engines used to launch U.S. military satellites, and added that Russia doesn't intend to continue cooperating with the U.S. on the International Space Station beyond 2020....

An amazing new NASA video shows two super-dense neutron stars tearing each other apart in a cataclysmic cosmic merger that ultimately forms a black hole....

With a temporary injunction barring United Launch Alliance from buying Russian-made engines for its Atlas 5 rocket now lifted, the case brought by SpaceX challenging the Air Force’s order of rockets appears to be focusing on questions of timing....

This bundle of bright stars and dark dust in this beautiful space wallpaper is a dwarf spiral galaxy known as NGC 4605, located around 16 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). ...

A newly christened telescope imager built to snap photos of alien planets around distant stars is the most sensitive camera of its kind, according to preliminary test. The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), installed on the Gemini South telescope in Chile, is de...

What do you get when you pair brilliant space scientists with musical instruments? The International Space Opera. In the summer of 2012, NASA and SETI scientists performed "Ground Control: An Opera in Space."...

Saturn will shine bright near the nearly full moon on Tuesday (May 13), just days after the ringed planet reached opposition, its best show of 2014. Here's how to see Saturn near the moon....

The HL-20 was one of two concepts considered for the Personnel Launch System....

A film that highlights the orchestra was an official selection of the International Film Festival in Rotterdam in 2013. In 2012, they performed in front of the world's largest wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center. ...

After 40 years of observation, NASA and University of California researchers agree that melting of the West Antarctic Glacier has passed the point of no return. It contains enough ice to raise sea levels ~4 feet, but could take centuries to melt....

Bone loss is a serious issue that has plagued astronauts since the dawn of the Space age. In the microgravity environment bones are remodeled with a decrease in mineral density. ...

The star is streaking through space at 1.4 million mph relative to our solar system, about three times faster than a typical star. It lies 42,400 light-years from Earth and is cruising toward the halo of dark matter that surrounds the galaxy....

The catastrophic collapse of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet is underway, researchers said today. ...

This fascinating space wallpaper shows the magnetic field of our Milky Way Galaxy as seen by ESA’s Planck satellite. This image was compiled from the first all-sky observations of polarized light emitted by interstellar dust in the Milky Way. ...

A new meteor shower spawned by a comet is due to light up the sky next week, with some forecasters predicting up to 200 'shooting stars' per hour, a potentially spectacular opening act for the meteor display....

NASA is testing a next generation Modified Advanced Crew Escape Suit (MACES), formerly ACES, for possible use on extravehicular activities. Astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen, tested the suits underwater in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab....