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An international team of researchers on Thursday launched a grueling simulation of a flight to Mars that will keep them locked in a cascade of ...

Space shuttle Atlantis zoomed toward its final touchdown Wednesday to cap a 25-year flying career, bringing back six astronauts who boosted ...

"We'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history," President Obama said in an April speech at NASA's Kennedy Space ...

Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave....

Scientists don't know quite why, but one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has disappeared -- again.

If NASA's exploration of Mars were summed up in a bumper sticker, it would read: "Follow the water."...

Japan's space agency is launching a mission to Venus to study its weather and hunt for signs of lightning and volcanoes.

Space shuttle Atlantis thundered off its launchpad at Kennedy Space Center into cloudless skies Friday afternoon and headed to the International Space Station on the 32nd and final planned mission of its 25-year career.

NASA is considering a plan to get around limited budgets set in Washington by stretching out missions to bring back samples from Mars, a researcher said on Wednesday.

Scientists have found lots of life-essential water – frozen as ice – in an unexpected place in our solar system: an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.