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After the successful expansion of Bigelow Aerospace's BEAM aboard the International Space Station, next steps for the technology are being looked at. Robert Bigelow explains some its potential uses.

NASA's Cassini will get up close and personal with the planet's outmost F rings during a series of 20 orbits between Nov. 30, 2016 and April 22, 2017. It will give the probe unprecedented views of the moons that orbit near the edge of the rings.

NASA challenged engineers to pack an entire satellite dish into a cereal box with Radar in a CubeSat (RainCube), a technology-demonstration mission scheduled for launch in 2018 that will measure rain and snowfall on Earth from space.

Europe's new Mars probe has started testing its science gear, a month after arriving at the Red Planet.

If you get up early Thursday morning (Nov. 24) to stuff the turkey, or shop at the crack of dawn on Friday (Nov. 25), you will be able to spot the crescent moon that's passing near Jupiter, the planet now appearing as a bright morning star.

There's a new guy in the galactic neighborhood — a small, ultra-faint satellite galaxy has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way. Its discovery will help scientists better understand dark matter, a mysterious substance that makes up most of the mass in t

The foil-clad portions of turkey, mashed potatoes and cherry/blueberry cobbler aboard the International Space Station might not look much like a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but they hearken back to the Earthbound feast — and the food is made on Earth,

Astrophotographer John Chumack took this image of the Helix Nebula in September 2016 from Dayton, Ohio.

A stunning image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that galaxy NGC 1222 is in the midst of gobbling up two smaller galaxies.

Whereas astronauts on the International Space Station get to feast on turkey and candied yams this Thanksgiving, deep-space travelers on NASA's future Orion mission may chow down on retro food bars.

NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX Nov. 22 for the Falcon 9 launch of an Earth science satellite in 2021.

Scientists recently characterized 19 "heartbeat" star systems: pairs of binary stars that vary in brightness over time, creating a brightness curve that blips up and down like an electrocardiogram.

The crash of Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander on Oct. 19 followed an unexplained saturation of the probe's inertial measurement unit, which delivered bad data to the lander’s computer and forced a premature release of its parachute.