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The International Astronautical Federation has released its September newsletter on the eve of the 65th International Astronautical Congress in Toronto. Included in the newsletter is an interview with the President of th...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November....

Hunting from a distance of 27,000 light years, astronomers have discovered an unusual carbon-based molecule - one with a branched structure - contained within a giant gas cloud in interstellar space. Like finding a molec...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

This red plane is a DHC-3 Otter, the plane flown in NASA's Operation IceBridge-Alaska surveys of mountain glaciers in Alaska....

For a couple of hours after nightfall Sunday (Sept. 28), Mars will be a fairly conspicuous light. The Red Planet will have a companion this evening; sitting below and to its left will shine the reddish 1st-magnitude star...

Astronauts may be able to walk on the moon faster than previously thought, a new study reports. These new findings could help scientists design better spacesuits that could aid astronauts' exploration of the moon, Mars o...

I have good news if you like fun things! And if you live somewhere near the San Francisco Bay area. On Oct. 25 I'll be at the Castro Theater to do not one but two science comedy events: BAHFest and the Quiz-O-Tron 9000! ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Nov. 12.

One patent attorney said a recently approved Blue Origin patent for landing rockets on water-going barges stands a good chance of being overturned, thanks to a review initiated by SpaceX.