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Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic hope to raise $70,000 via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to create an astrophotography book and a video time-lapse series showing dark skies in the United States and Canada. Th...

An incremental, multiple-mission approach -- which envisions getting astronauts to Phobos by 2033, then down to the Martian surface by 2039 -- could make manned Mars exploration technologically and economically feasible.

The debris cloud spawned by the Feb. 3 explosion of the U.S. Air Force's DMSP-F13 satellite may endanger some spacecraft, a new study suggests.

The planet Mercury is dominating the May night sky for 2015, but it's not the only bright planet for stargazers to observe. Here's how to spot the brightest planets in the May 2015 night sky.

Now is the best time to see the planet Mercury in the evening sky just after sunset. Here's how to see Mercury in the night sky. Mercury was at it's farthest from the sun for the year on Thursday (May 7).

Andy Weir, author of the acclaimed novel 'The Martian,' stopped by NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston recently and took the new Modular Robotic Vehicle for a test ride. See the photos here.

In the future when touch screens are obsolete and we control our devices by facial gesture, maybe we'll zoom in and out the same way a bat does it. We'll open our mouths wide to narrow our field of focus. To see the bigg...

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket could earn U.S. Air Force certification to launch national security satellites even with several issues outstanding provided the company presents a mutually acceptable plan and schedule for resol...

Neil deGrasse Tyson's late-night, science-themed talk show, "StarTalk," has been renewed for a second season by the National Geographic Channel.

The space-funding company Uwingu is offering a special deal: Name a Mars crater from now through Sunday (May 10), and you get a Mother's Day certificate (a digital version or a printed-out, framed one).

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, Universe Today has been featuring "13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13," discussing different turning points of the mission with NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill. T...

Reporters are invited to a media day Monday, June 1, at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii, to learn about NASA's second flight test of its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD).

NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science fact through the development of pioneering technologies.

For family carers, 'hard to reach' young people, adult workers, for everyone: the RAS has announced £500k in grants for six innovative public engagement projects. The awards from the RAS 200: Sky & Earth programme were ...

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...

While NASA argues there is a growing consensus that the agency's long-term human spaceflight goal should be landing people on Mars, a recent conference suggested there is less agreement about exactly how NASA should acco...

The northeast coast of South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean is pictured in this satellite image. Clouds, however, block our view of its southwestern coast....

The results of the 2015 RAS elections were announced at the Annual General Meeting of the society on 8 May. The following Fellows were elected to serve on Council, the governing body of the society:Prof. John Zarnecki, e...

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

NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, was recognized Friday for its decades of contributions to the advancement of helicopters and other vertical flight aircraft.

Water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it happened on Earth, new research strongly suggests....