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Is the Red Planet giving off methane? The question has taunted scientists for nearly 50 years, ever since the Mariner 7 spacecraft detected a whiff of the gas near Mars' south pole. Researchers retracted the finding a mo...

Satellite and rocket-component builder OHB SE of Germany on May 13 reported a sharp drop in revenue for the three months ending March 31 but said it remains on track to meet its full-year revenue goal. The post OHB Reven...

A defense authorization bill just drafted in the U.S. Senate would leave United Launch Alliance with fewer Atlas 5 rocket engines than the company says it needs to stay in the competitive national security launch arena u...

Europe's next spacecraft to Mars is seen undergoing vibration testing at Thales Alenia Space, in Cannes, France, in preparation for its launch next year....

Tom Broadhurst, the Ikerbasque researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics of the UPV/EHU, together with Sandor Molnar of the National Taiwan University and visiting Ikerbasque researcher at the UPV/EHU in 2013, ...

NASA's New Horizons probe, which is set to perform the first-ever flyby of Pluto on July 14, has begun hunting for possible rings and undiscovered moons, in an effort to identify potential hazards near the dwarf planet.

A NASA F-15D flies chase for the G-III Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project.

In 2013, astronomers announced they had discovered a magnetar exceptionally close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way using a suite of space-borne telescopes including NASA's Chandra X-ray Obser...

NASA's Keplar mission captured over 2 months of Triton's orbit of Neptune. Small moon Nereid joins in on the dance on Day 24 and some streaking asteroids make the flurry complete.

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, known for its planet-hunting prowess of other stars, is also studying solar system objects. In its new K2 mission, Neptune and two of its moons, Triton and Nereid, have been imaged....

A Virginia-owned launchpad damaged in October when Orbital ATK's Antares rocket exploded moments after liftoff is almost fixed, but the company is at loggerheads with the state and the federal government over who should ...

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Welcome, come in to the 405th Carnival of Space! The carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. I’m Susie Murph, part of the team...

The next decadal survey for space-based Earth science, preparing to get underway this summer, will be challenged to meet wide-ranging science requirements from several agencies and incorporate new technologies while stay...

NASA has opened media accreditation for the New Horizons spacecraft's historic encounter with Pluto in mid-July.

The House Science Committee approved four bills on commercial space topics during a lengthy markup session May 13 marked by partisan divides on a number of issues.

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to study 3000 white dwarf stars in Milky Way star cluster 47 Tucanae. The white dwarfs are migrating outward from the center of the cluster, which is home to hundreds of thousands of s...

As New Horizons nears its closest approach with Pluto, the mission team is hosting 'Pluto-Palooza' events in multiple locations around the country.

By tracking the phases of six exoplanets, astronomers have tracked their daily weather cycles for the first time.

The neutron star SGR 1745-2900 near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is not slowing down its X-ray output as expected. Data from Chandra's X-ray Observatory show a slow decline in X-ray brightness a...

Now that we’ve celebrated the 45th anniversary of Apollo 13 and completed our series “13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13” and we want to see how well you’ve been paying attention! Here are 13 questions about the...