It's been a busy year in space with new Mars missions launched, a NASA probe saying hello to Jupiter, and humanity's most ambitious comet exploration mission drawing to a close. It was a year when ...

Wednesday, June 15, 2016: A prototype of NASA's Orion space capsule takes the plunge in this photo from a test drop at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia on June 8, 2016. Thursday, ...

Honoring Theodore von Kármán, world famous authority on aerospace sciences, the von Kàrmàn Lectureship in Astronautics recognizes an individual who has performed notably and distinguished himself ...

A Chinese spacecraft will blast off from the Gobi Desert on a Long March rocket in the coming days, ferrying three men to an orbiting space module for a three-month stay, the first time China has sent ...

Humans filled waterways, landfills, and streets with trash, so it’s no surprise the same thing happened in Earth’s orbital neighborhood. Now our species will finally take a crack at cleaning up. Some ...

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For older Image of the Day pictures, please visit the Image of the Day archives. Pictured: NGC 2467. Tuesday, November 1, 2016: Astrophotographer Brian Ottum was outside testing out his telescope and ...