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The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite, says a team of researchers led by Jeremy Boyce of the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences...

A $518 million military weather satellite that has been waiting 15 years to shine will be launched into orbit Thursday atop an Atlas 5 rocket from the western spaceport in California.

For the past several years, astrophotographer John Chumack has lead a tour to Alaska on how to photograph the northern lights and the night sky, and this year was a great success. “We experienced perfect weather this y...

April features eclipses of the sun and moon, a meteor shower and good opportunities to see Vesta and Ceres, the two biggest bodies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite, says a team of researchers led by Jeremy Boyce of the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences...

NASA Breaking News: NASA issued a Request for Information (RFI) Monday soliciting potential partners interested in using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft for scientific investigations...

Today: X2R12.1 Software Transition: Today the ground team completed the X2R12.1 software update that was started on Saturday. All activities were successfully performed and the system is back in nominal configuration....

See stunning photos of the night sky and sun as seen by stargazers around the world in this Space.com photo gallery for April 2014 made up of images sent in by Space.com readers.

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins swaps out the International Space Station's Solid Waste Container SWC/KTO.

Orbital Sciences will launch eight Earth observing nanosatellites for NASA in October 2016 aboard its air-launched Pegasus rocket.

From a billionaire to a respected science journal, everyone is getting in on the ridiculous April Fools' Day fun. A few of the more elaborate jokes flying around the internet today (April 1) involve spaceflight and astro...

She's alive! She's alive! Or is she? A little more than a week ago, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2014, evidence was presented that Venus was geologically active, not in the recent past, like 100,000 year...

The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver a contract modification worth $246 million for the seventh and eighth GPS satellites.

As SpaceX pursues its quest of rocket reusability, it recently subjected the first stage of its next generation Falcon 9 rocket (called the Falcon 9-reusable or F9R) to a tie-down test ahead of some more heavy-duty work ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA works with California's water managers to spot tiny signs of trouble in the Sacramento River delta levees, using a research radar.

NASA issued a Request for Information (RFI) Monday soliciting potential partners interested in using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft for scientific investigations or for other potent...

Media are invited to meet with NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot during a visit to NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 2.

Much like how an earthquake can teach us about the interior of the Earth, a starquake shows off certain properties about the inside of a star. Studying the closest star we have (the sun) has yielded information about rot...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Aerospace Engineer Fernando Pellerano builds instruments for NASA during the day and creates robots with his son during his free time.

A historic NASA jumbo jet has been cleared for its final takeoff -- not into the air, but on a road trip through the streets of Houston to the site of its future exhibit.

As bats squeak and swoop through pitch-black Mexican caves, the pale fish that inhabit the pools below them perform a soundless imitation. These fish are blind but sense the world through subtle pressure changes on their...

ESA's fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV Georges Lemaitre, will deliver more than 2600 kg of dry cargo to the International Space Station....