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The blueprints and science goals for the first Arab mission to Mars have been revealed for the first time. The Emirates Mars Mission probe, named "Hope", will create mankind's first integrated model of the Red Planet's a...

Astronomers have spotted a dead star polluted with heavy elements, suggesting that the star recently chowed down on a water-laced asteroid.

While some scientists are focused on finding Earth's exoplanet twin, one group is looking for twins of Venus. Their findings may help the hunt for Earth-like planets.

Oscar Holderer, the last known engineer who left Germany after World War II to work on the US space program, died at the age of 95.

EchoStar Corp. on May 7 said its EchoStar 19/Jupiter 2 Ka-band broadband satellite, designed to relieve demand pressure on EchoStar's Hughes consumer satellite broadband service, would not be launched until late 2016. Th...

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest massive galactic neighbor, is about six times larger and 1,000 times more massive t...

The hostile environment around small, red stars could make some planets inhospitable, but could these same stars make other planets just right for life?

To prepare for future colonies on Mars, NASA is asking the public for ideas on how to keep Red Planet astronauts safe with minimal resupplies from Earth.

NASA's Launch Services Program has issued a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS), which would be commercial launch services for small satellites and experiments on science missi...

Despite the FAA's position that it is time to regulate commercial space flight, a Senate bill would extend the industry's regulatory grace period to 2020. The post Senate Bill Would Again Delay Full Commercial Space Regu...

New observations of a recently exploded star are confirming supercomputer model predictions made at Caltech that the deaths of stellar giants are lopsided affairs in which debris and the stars' cores hurtle off in opposi...

Researchers have reproduced a wide array of life's building blocks in a scenario involving meteorites and the solar wind, suggesting that such chemicals may exist on many bodies in our solar system.

Did you catch the performance of Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy earlier this year? Every year provides a few sure bets and surprises when it comes to binocular comets, and while we may still be long overdue for the next truly '...

NASA's MESSENGER Mission:

Russia said an unmanned supply ship that missed a rendezvous with the International Space Station will burn up on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere after the spacecraft suffered a communications failure.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest massive galactic neighbor, is about six times larger and 1,000 times more massive t...

Mercury has possessed a magnetic field for billions of years, and it may have once been as strong as the Earth's, researchers say.The discovery, was made by studying data from NASA's recently crashed MESSENGER spacecraft...

Globular clusters -- dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars -- are among the oldest objects in the universe....

Thirty Meter Telescope:

About 4 billion years ago, Mercury's magnetic field could have been much stronger than today, as indicated by low-altitude observations made by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft that revealed evidence of magnetization of ancie...