Two minutes into his first trip to space last Thursday, US astronaut Nick Hague found himself thinking how smoothly the flight was going. "It was everything I expected it to be," he told NASA director Jim Bridenstine at Johnson Space Center on Tuesday.
A seven-year, eight-million-kilometer voyage expected to shed light on the mysteries of Mercury, the solar system's least-understood planet, is nearly ready for takeoff.
A year after Cassini ended its 20-year mission to study Saturn, the last data the spacecraft recorded before plunging into the planet's atmosphere are revealing its long-held secrets.
Japan's space agency will attempt to land a robotic unmanned landing craft on the surface of an asteroid 186.4 million-miles away from Earth next month.
A telescope built in South Africa is revealing new details about the Milky Way.
Two billion years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, our galaxy's sibling, called M32p, was violently shredded and cannibalized. But the galactic crime scene is full of starry evidence leading right to the culprit, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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The Trump administration wants to let the private sector run U.S. operations on the International Space Station.
On Friday, a small satellite named PicSat will launch in an attempt to make a big observation: watching an exoplanet passing in front of its star this year.
President Donald Trump wants to send astronauts where no man has gone before.
It's a good idea to have a backup plan, especially in interstellar space.
