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In 2011, a report from a National Academy of Sciences' decadal survey emphasized the need to examine and understand the influences that sex and gender have on physiological and psychological or behavioral changes that oc...

Halloween is cool. A space age Halloween is even cooler. See our favorite space costume photos from Space.com readers from our 2014 space costume contest.

NASA Breaking News: NASA has selected 11 university-led proposals for the study of innovative, early stage technologies that address high priority needs of America's space program.

Though the surface of Mars is a dry, dessicated and bitterly cold place today, it is strongly believed that the planet once had rivers, streams, lakes, and flowing water on its surface. Thanks to a combination of spacecr...

It's likely that increased doses of solar power will allow the Philae comet lander's secondary battery to power up sufficiently to renew communications via the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting overhead, mission officials say.

NASA's Orion spacecraft is designed to take humans deeper into space than ever before. Get the latest Orion news, videos and images here.

NAOJ Top News: A team of astronomers used Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope to look back more than 13 billion years and found seven early galaxies that appeared quite suddenly within 700 million years of the Big Bang.

NASA Osiris-REx mission plans to return samples from Asteroid Bennu in 2023. The space rock's amazing journey began in the 'chaos of creation' more than 4.7 billion years ago.

The simple reason why the lander was sent all the way to a comet was to do chemistry that can explain the origin of life --

A mysterious object launched by the Russian military is being tracked by western space agencies, stoking fears over the revival of a defunct Kremlin project to destroy satellites.

An uncontrolled, chaotic landing. Stuck in the shadow of a cliff without energy-giving sunlight. Philae and team persevered. With just 60 hours of battery power, the lander drilled, hammered and gathered science data on ...

The two nations are major sources of carbon dioxide emissions, warming Earth accelerating polar ice melt. Throw Europe into the mix and watch large swaths of CO2 swarming the northern hemisphere in winter months.

A new map created by NASA researchers reveals that 556 fireball events -- produced when small asteroids explode in Earth's atmosphere -- occurred around the world between 1994 and 2013.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A NASA team gave itself just one year to develop, test and build a new type of small satellite.

New Horizons is scheduled to emerge from a 99-day hibernation on Dec. 6, then gear up for a six-month Pluto encounter that peaks with the first-ever close flyby of the mysterious dwarf planet on July 14, 2015.

Mankind's first-ever probe of a comet found traces of organic molecules and a surface much harder than imagined, scientists said Tuesday of initial sample data from robot lab Philae.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Two sounding rocket missions will launch from Norway to study activities in the Earth's cusp and magnetic field features associated with regions through which plasma from the sun can h...

Managers of Europe's Philae comet lander made a virtue of a necessity in saying Philae's overly shadowed location will be an advantage as Comet 67P approaches the sun in the coming months.

Okay, let’s take a deep breath about Rosetta and remember just how far we’ve come since the mission arrived at its target comet in August. Lately we’ve been focused on reporting on the Philae landing, but remember ...

NASA and the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) have signed a memorandum of understanding for future cooperation on the development of advanced air traffic management technologies, benefiting a...

NASA has selected 11 university-led proposals for the study of innovative, early stage technologies that address high priority needs of America's space program.

Sandstone formations can be amazing, and if you’ve ever seen or heard about the legendary and hard-to-get-to “Wave” formation in Arizona, you’ll agree it would be a stunning location for a night sky photography s...