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The Martian Curiosity celebrates 1000 Sols on Mars! Marking the occasion with utter glee, the car sized robot snapped a cool mosaic view (above) looking back to 1000 Sols of high impact exploration and discovery on the R...

Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academai Sinica:

NASA astronaut and One-Year crew member Scott Kelly gathered hardware today for the start of the Fluid Shifts experiment. For the experiment on Tuesday, both Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will don the Rus...

ESA's goal of removing a derelict satellite from orbit is picking up pace, as a mission design is assembled to be put before European ministers next year for approval.

Bug guts create drag, and drag increases fuel consumption. But aircraft of the future could be made more fuel-efficient with non-stick coatings NASA recently tested on Boeing's ecoDemonstrator 757.

NASA astronaut Michael Foreman is a spacewalk veteran who knows what it's like to suit up in a one-man spaceship to build space stations. See his view on how spacewalking has evolved since the first outings in 1965.

The U.S. House of Representatives on June 2 began debating a spending bill that would boost NASA's astrophysics budget, but strings attached to the measure could actually force the division to make $21.3 million in unpla...

The US space agency plans to try out the largest parachute ever deployed Wednesday during a flying saucer launch that will test new technologies for landing on Mars.

The discovery of the bright ring of orbiting the star HD 115600 changes everything, said Thayne Currie of the Subaru Telescope, a Subaru Project Fellow research astronomer. "It's kind of like looking at our solar system ...

Canada committed Tuesday to flying two astronauts to space within the next decade as part of its renewed participation with the International Space Station program.

The UAE space agency is developing an orbiter to study the atmosphere of Mars. Project managers explain the mission, which is slated for a 2021 launch.

A close-up of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by NASA's ultraviolet instrument surprised scientists by revealing that electrons close to the comet's surface--not photons from the Sun as had been believed--cause the rapid...

The University of Arizona Astronomy News:

NASA astronaut Ed White became the first American astronaut to walk in space on June 3, 1965, during the Gemini 4 mission. See photos from White's historic spacewalk.

While NASA does not yet have specific plans for human missions beyond 2021, the agency is in the early stages of developing a sequence of missions in cislunar space in the 2020s to prepare for later missions to Mars.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Right now, we're in a space launch gap. It's been nearly four years since Americans were launched into space on an American rocket from American soil. But the gap ends soon: NASA has ordered the first launch of astronaut...

The May 29 statement by Roscosmos on the May 16 Proton rocket failure confirmed initial suspicions of a third-stage engine issue but otherwise left many questions unanswered about the failure's origin.

On Sunday, May 31, 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully made its latest and final flyby of Hyperion, Saturn's spongy moon. And the view was amazing.

When Alexei Leonov stepped out of his Voskhod 2 capsule on March 18, 1965, he became the first spacewalker ever.

Canadian Space Agency: