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A NASA spacecraft has been approved to launch in 2016 to visit a near-Earth asteroid, mission managers announced today. Dubbed OSIRIS-REx—f...

NASA said on Tuesday that a new spacecraft to take humans into deep space will be based on designs of the Orion crew exploration vehicle. T...

An international team of astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope to carefully study the star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic C...

Shortly after midnight, NASA sent one last plea to the silent rover Spirit, mired in a sand trap on the surface of Mars. "Please phone...

After setting a soaring vision to land a man on the moon, President John F. Kennedy struggled with how to sell the public on a costly space...

Using a distant spacecraft and a giant telescope , astronomers have unmasked the full ire of a storm so big that it encircles Saturn, a plan...

Astronomers said Wednesday that space was littered with hundreds of billions of planets that had been ejected from the planetary systems th...

Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission command...

The Crab Nebula has shocked astronomers by emitting an unprecedented blast of gamma rays, the highest-energy light in the Universe. The cau...

Astronomers from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland have found that a recently discovered asteroid has been following Earth in its ...