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A federal surplus auction is selling a NASA flown-in-space artifact that may be worth its weight in gold -- because it is gold. The six 24 karat gold plates reportedly flew in space for 69 months.

The first crew to embark on a yearlong International Space Station mission could help NASA get to Mars.

The NASA probe launched in January 2005 and will encounter Pluto in the summer of 2015.

Com Dev said it is closing its California plant because of a lack of U.S. government communication satellite orders but likely will acquire a U.S. company in the near future -- one that does not depend on government comm...

"NASA first mission to distant Pluto will also be humankind's first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system," said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at the agency's Headqua...

NASA's goal of sending astronauts to deep space took a major step forward when the first engine destined to power the mighty Space Launch System (SLS) exploration rocket blazed to life during a successful test firing at ...

Contruction team members talk about the progress being made on rolling out Virgin Galactic's new private spaceship.

The UK's Beagle 2, which disappeared during a landing attempt in 2003, is clearly visible in new photos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently at the Red Planet --

Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Larry D. Welch, a former chief of staff, will lead an independent review of the service's launch vehicle certification process, which has come under criticism for the time it is taking to cert...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) (...)Read the rest of Weekly Space Hangout – Jan. 16, 2015: Hard L...

A data-relay satellite under construction as part of an ambitious partnership between the European Space Agency and Airbus Defence and Space may not be built because of ongoing concerns with the project's business prospe...

Dramatic new photos and video of the daring and mostly successful attempt by Space X to land their Falcon 9 booster on an ocean-going "drone ship" were released this morning, Friday, Jan. 16, by SpaceX CEO and founder El...

At least two planets larger than Earth likely lurk in the dark depths of space far beyond Pluto, just waiting to be discovered, a new analysis of the orbits of "extreme trans-Neptunian objects" (ETNOs) suggests.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbite...

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

Holy cow! Watch this amazing Vine video of the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster crashing as it attempted to land on a barge last week after a successful launch to the space station. Make sure the volume is up, because holy wow. T...

Last night was the first time I was able to spot Comet Lovejoy with unaided eyes. The latest images from our readers and dedicated astrophotographers confirm that now is a good time to see the comet, which is reaching ma...

There's something downright mesmerizing about this six-second video loop SpaceX posted Jan. 16 showing the Falcon 9's first stage crash land on the company's "autonomous spaceport drone ship." The post Falcon 9 Crash-lan...

In late December 2003, the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft entered orbit around the red planet. Part of the mission was to send a lander, the Beagle 2, down to the surface to study the geology and other ...

Today: External Thermal Control System (ETCS) Loop B Recovery Status: Ground teams are methodically working towards repressurizing and recovering ETCS Loop B and the systems which were deactivated as a result of yesterda...

Planetary geologist Timothy Parker of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab explains how the HiRise camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was tasked to locate Beagle 2, which landed on Christmas Day, 2003 but never successfully ...

Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars - powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns - form and shape the evolution of galaxies. Quasars are amongst...