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Billionaire rocket-maker Elon Musk of SpaceX shared his big vision for a "self-sustaining civilization" on Mars with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a short documentary set to air this weekend.

The U.S. armed forces' northernmost base, one that provides key space surveillance and missile warning capabilities but costs more than $100 million a year to operate, is undergoing a major consolidation as budgets shrin...

MarsCrew134's crew scientist Vibha Srivastava describes extracting hydrogen fuel from soil sampled outside a simulated Mars habitat in Utah, a process called "in-situ resource utilization."

The British government agreed to invest 15 million British pounds in two French satellite Earth observation programs.

A behavior predicted by the famous physicist Paul Dirac in 1931 has been shown in a system of ultracooled atoms in the lab. The system mimics a magnetic monopole, which has only one pole, passing through an electron.

To honor a somber week in NASA history, the space agency will pay homage to its fallen astronauts Friday (Jan. 31) during a "Day of Remembrance."

The commander of U.S. Air Force Space Command and the service's top uniformed officer for space, whose concerns about future defense funding have pushed the industry out from a comfortable status quo, has signaled that h...

NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio talks to Space.com's @MiriKramer about the Super Bowl, Olympics and more on Jan. 31st, 2014.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Several scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, N.Y. received awards from AMS, AGU and AAS.

Michael Gilmore, the Defense Department's director of operational test and evaluation, called into question the design of the EKV.

A beautiful Mastcam panorama from sol 528 shows a landscape so much more like Earth than anything we've explored on the Martian surface before.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reached the edge of a dune on Jan. 30 and photographed the valley on the other side, to aid assessment of whether to cross the dune.

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NASA Breaking News: Stanford University's Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center in Palo Alto, Calif., will be the site of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium Feb. 4-6.

The "jelly doughnut" rock found next to Opportunity is the focus of a new lawsuit alleging that NASA is not properly looking for life.

SES will continue to have rights to the spectrum at 28.5 degrees east that it had taken from Eutelsat in October following a German court ruling.

Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine would have formed far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new University of Bristol study into its real world counterparts, observed by the Kepler space telescope,...

A large winter storm swept through the southeastern United States in January 2014, dropping snow and ice on an area unaccustomed to dealing with winter weather....

U.S. President Barack Obama recalled the heroism of Americans who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration to mark NASA's somber memorial today (Jan. 31) for three spaceflight disaster anniversaries this week...

Emily Rice, astrophysics researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, answers question submitted to Scientific American's Space Lab channel. --

See what's up in the night sky for February 2014, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this SPACE.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

A Canadian military satellite designed to track objects in high Earth orbit with an electo-optical sensor has completed its commissioning and commenced operatons.