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Their services have permeated daily lives for countless millions of people, and now the latest Global Positioning System satellite is awaiting blastoff Thursday (May 15) to bolster the navigation network....

The call by one Russian official to ban Russian rocket engine use on U.S. military launches and to pull out of the International Space Station project by 2020, could have far-reaching repercussions for U.S. spaceflight if realized. ...

Known as Cepheid variables, the stars have positions and young ages that indicate a warp to the galaxy's arm. This was previously suggested by observations of dust but had not been shown by the presence of stars....

The Hubble Space Telescope recently spotted a billowing cloud of water vapor on Jupiter’s moon Europa — a sign that extraterrestrial life could be lurking within our own solar system. Studying plumes here on Earth could inform the alien-life hunt....

Expedition 38 crew member Mike Hopkins shows how the Canadarm 2 (ISS robotic arm) is controlled by astronauts to snare the Orbital Science Cygnus and SpaceX Dragon spacecrafts. -- See SpaceX Dragon Capture: http://goo.gl/zKQxde ...

The future of United States space travel will involve significant governmental cooperation with private industry, according to a panel of spaceflight experts....

The video — a supercomputer simulation created by researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center — chronicles the growth of a spiral galaxy, beginning with its birth shortly after the Big Bang that created the universe 13.8 billion years ago....

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Japanese spaceflyer Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 9:58 p.m. EDT Tuesday night (May 13)....

The May full moon will rise on Wednesday (May 14), giving stargazers with clear skies in Australia and New Zealand a special treat: a view of Saturn slipping behind the moon. Here's how to see it....

Even though it may only be a lump of porous rock, Phobos isn’t shy about hogging the limelight in this space wallpaper taken by ESA’s Mars Express. ...

See photos from the May 13, 2014 landing of the a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Japanese spaceflyer Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin to wrap up a 188-day space mission....

Discovery of runaway companion star points to a mass-exchange during a supernova explosion; weird conditions that lead to the weird, violent object called a magnetar....

A single "runaway" star in a distant star cluster could explain how a massive supernova avoided collapsing into a black hole, leaving behind a remnant object instead....

If you go out tonight (May 14) about half an hour after sunset and have clear weather, you will see a number of bright objects in the sky. The brightest of these celestial lights are four of five planets visible to the naked eye this month....

Three International Space Station crewmembers are set to return to Earth tonight (May 13) and you can watch it live online. ...

In this simulation, 2 neutron stars weigh in at 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses and are separated by only 11 miles. Intense tidal forces pull the stars apart as they spiral towards each other and the black hole is formed amidst the chaos....

Using satellite data, researchers located "grounding lines" (points underneath glaciers where melting begins) and determined these lines were retreating further away from the sea each year. The West Antarctic glaciers are seeing the highest melt rate...

Astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen descended into NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory pool on Friday (May 9) to test out spacewalking techniques that could be used to explore a captured asteroid a decade or so from now....

Comets PanSTARRS and LINEAR are streaking through the night sky this month, and both should be visible through binoculars or a small telescope, experts say. Comet LINEAR may also spawn a spectacular meteor shower on May 23-24....

A new book set for release just after the movie "Interstellar" premieres in November promises to take fans of the film behind the scenes, delving into the details of one of the most anticipated movies of 2014. ...