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The team intends to rescue the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 and then focus on what to use the spacecraft for --

The European Space Agency has selected the Athena X-ray observatory as its second "large-class" science mission. Athena -- which will cost about 1 billion euros ($1.36 billion at current exchange rates) -- is scheduled t...

The volunteer team attempting to resurrect NASA's ISEE-3 observatory will attempt to boost the venerable spacecraft back into the Earth system July 8.

Unusual arms, revealed in x-ray light, dive through the plane of NGC 4258, ejecting enormous amounts of gas and choking the ability for new stars to form.

The NASA building where Neil Armstrong stayed -- and his lunar landing spacecraft was readied -- before launching to the moon 45 years ago this month is being renamed for the late astronaut.

Light from tiny galaxies over 13 billion years ago played a larger role than previously thought in creating the conditions in the universe as we know it today, a new study has found. Ultraviolet (UV) light from stars in ...

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is renaming one of its iconic facilities in honor of legendary astronaut and the first person to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

An incredibly detailed new map of Mars' southern highlands shows how profoundly liquid water sculpted the region long ago, especially two canyon systems known as Waikato Vallis and Reull Vallis.

The center will study propulsion, aeronautics and structural applications related to hypersonic flights.

If you’re a high school student who’s really into space, Maker Camp bills itself as a great spot for you to get involved. Every summer, the organization runs a virtual summer camp for six weeks, encouraging people to...

NASA STEREO-A and STEREO-B solar probes' orbits will take them out of view from Earth at different times in 2015 making communication very difficult.

We space people are very lucky to get glimpses of Saturn (and other planets!) regularly through the raw images feature on a few spacecraft websites. This allows anyone to get a hold of the pictures as they come back from...

Look up tonight (July 7) to spot Saturn hovering very close to the moon. With its immediately recognizable rings, Saturn might be one of the most striking planets in the solar system, but many skywatchers find it hard to...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is renaming one of its iconic facilities in honor of legendary astronaut and the first person to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

How do you land a machine on the Red Planet? Appears that the answer keeps changing as engineers get smarter about solving the problem. Over the years, NASA has experimented with approaches ranging from soft landings to ...

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(Phys.org) --A pair of researchers with Arizona State University has created computer simulations that show that Mercury may have a relatively large metal core because it was the victim of a hit-and-run collision with an...

After almost nine years on the road, New Horizons is in what NASA calls “Pluto-space”! Earlier today (July 7), the spacecraft Twitter account announced New Horizons is now 29.8 Earth-sun distances (astronomical units...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Mika McKinnon at the io9 Space blog.

(Phys.org)--New research by academics at the University of Sheffield has solved a long-standing mystery surrounding the evolution of galaxies, deepening our understanding of the future of the Milky Way.

NASA's NEOWISE snapped a series of infrared images of C/2012 K1 (aka Pan-STARRS) in May 2014, when the comet was ~143 million miles away. The spiral galaxy, NGC 3726, is 55 million light years away, in the constellation ...

"An origin of life is not the same as an origin of a biosphere--that's an important distinction," says David Grinspoon, a planetary scientist and curator of astrobiology for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.