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The GOES-R satellite is valued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at $1 billion.

NASA says the moon Sunday night into Monday will appear 14% bigger and 30% brighter than when farthest from Earth.

According to the ancients, this was the way to survive in a brand new unforgiving world. It can also be very dangerous.

NASA's Earth Observatory Blog used a satellite to map the rainfall in Louisiana from August 12-14, and the images are quite jolting.

With many bad things being portrayed in the news, including shootings, celebrity deaths, and more, I thought it was time that we list off some of the GOOD things that have happened so far this year.

Captain Edgar Mitchell was the lone surviving crew member of Apollo 14's mission to the moon. He was a space explorer, champion of UFO's and a straight talking Texan. Every political leader on the face of the Earth should read and heed Captain Mitchell's words. Our world would be so much better if they did.

NASA has unveiled a plan that will not only send humans to Mars, but wants them to be able to live there.

Don't let all this blue moon talk scare you. It's more a function of your calendar than it is some celestial event.

We are getting our first glimpse of Pluto, from the NASA spacecraft New Horizons, on the 50th anniversary of our initial look at planet Mars!

It's the second consecutive failure of a shipment to the space station and the third in eight months.

In 2014, the European Space Agency (ESA) did the incredible: it landed a probe on a comet. But this wasn't its first rodeo. Ten years ago, it parked a probe on the hazy, alien moon of Titan.

America's next important space mission has a very unique Acadiana connection.

The Delta 2 rocket was supposed to launch early today over Vandenberg Air Force Base.

NASA delayed the launch of Falcon 9, originally scheduled for Sunday, to March 30, which has also stalled the experiment hitching a ride on the ship to the space station.

Astronomers have long lobbied for a mission to Europa, but it would cost billions of dollars.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's newest robotic explorer, Maven, is on its way to Mars. The Maven spacecraft blasted off aboard an unmanned rocket from Cape Canaveral on Monday. It will take Maven 10 months to reach Mars following a journey of more than 440 million miles...

DENVER (AP) — The second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts has died. Astronaut Scott Carpenter was 88. His wife, Patty Barrett, says Carpenter died of complications from a stroke in a Denver hospice...

NASA's newest delivery service pulled up at the International Space Station on Sunday after a week's delay, bringing more than a half-ton of meals and special treats to the astronauts who assisted in the high-flying feat.

NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star.

Last month's unprecedented encounters with foreign bodies from space, one a predicted miss and the other an unexpected direct hit, prompted Congress to approach NASA, the Air Force, and the White House what they're doing to prepare for imminent impacts from near-Earth asteroids and their ilk.