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Mars is currently home to a small army robotic rovers, satellites and orbiters, all of which are busy at work trying to unravel the deeper mysteries of Earth’s neighbor. These include whether or not the planet ever had...

Eumetsat is funding Jason CS for Continuity of Service, as an optional program, meaning nations contribute as they see fit.

A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions....

Today's attempt to launch Orion EFT-1 has been scrubbed today after continuing issues with ground winds - and then with fill and drain valves on the Delta IV Heavy Launch vehicle. There were also issues with battery leve...

Do Orion and SLS only exist to provide jobs on Earth? Is Orion a capability without a real mission? Could Orion fly atop a SpaceX booster? NASA Chief Maj. Gen. Charlie Bolden handles these and others with Space.com's @Da...

When NASA's napping New Horizon's spacecraft awakens later this week in preparation for its July 2015 encounter with Pluto, a University of Colorado Boulder student instrument onboard already will have been up for years.

Among the billions and billions of stars in the sky, where should astronomers look for infant Earths where life might develop? New research from Cornell University's Institute for Pale Blue Dots shows where -- and when -...

I'm sweating. I can't easily move any part of my body, and although there are people all around me, I can't communicate without activating a radio. I'm pretty uncomfortable.

Japanese Experiment Module Airlock (JEMAL): Cristoforetti and ground teams pressurized the JEMAL and performed a leak check in preparation for Cyclops launcher removal, currently scheduled for 17 December 2014....

For many of us, it's easier to comprehend complex processes when they are expressed visually. That was the impetus for artist Gary Schroeder in creating this wonderful hand-sketched infographic for NASA's Exploration Fli...

NASA Breaking News: The first flight test of Orion, NASA's next-generation spacecraft capable of sending astronauts on future missions to an asteroid and the journey to Mars, now is scheduled to launch Friday, Dec. 5 at ...

SpaceX has announced it's looking to hire a farmer to till the land around the company's central Texas test site, sparking a flurry of speculation online that SpaceX is interested in developing space gardens.

The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which will feature a primary mirror 128 feet wide, has been greenlit for construction in Chile, officials with the European Southern Observatory announced Thursday (Dec. 4)...

In a public outreach effort, NASA set aside room on the test flight of the Orion capsule for Ernie's rubber duckie, Cookie monster's cookie and more.

NASA's new Orion crew capsule was built with capabilities to travel further than any humans have ever been. NASA engineer Nujoud Merancy explains explains what it can do.

The moon once had a magnetic heart, which helped the moon generate a magnetic field stronger than Earth's is now, researchers say.

MIT: The moon's molten, churning core likely once generated a dynamo. When the Apollo astronauts returned to Earth, they brought with them some souvenirs: rocks, pebbles, and dust from the moon's surface. These lunar sam...

The intermittent light emitted by pulsars, the most precise timekeepers in the universe, allows scientists to verify Einstein's theory of relativity, especially when these objects are paired up with another neutron star ...

We say it every year, but Steve Cariddi's wonderful Year in Space Wall Calendar is the perfect holiday gift! It's full of amazing color images, daily space facts, historical references, and it even shows you where you ca...

It’s almost exactly 10 years ago that humanity parachuted a spacecraft into Titan, that moon of Saturn that could hold chemistry similar to what sat on Earth before life arose. Called Huygens, the probe survived for ju...

The E-ELT will be a 39-metre aperture optical and infrared telescope sited on Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Atacama Desert, 20 kilometres from ESO's Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal. It will be the world's largest ...

Analysis of data from the MATROSHKA experiment, the first comprehensive measurements of long-term exposure of astronauts to cosmic radiation, has now been completed. This experiment, carried out on board and outside of t...