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NASA already plans to launch a spacecraft to the Jupiter moon Europa in the early to mid-2020s, and it's also mulling a mission to the Saturn satellite Enceladus that would lift off by the end of 2021.

Denmark's first astronaut is launching on a ten-day taxi flight to the International Space Station, taking with him a Danish toy that is known worldwide. Andreas Mogensen will fly to the station with LEGO minifigures bea...

Active Region 2403 was very lively between Aug. 21-26, 2015. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped imagery of the Sunspot group writhing across the surface and breaking up into several distinct groups.

Cassini has once again turned to Enceladus, the enigmatic moon of Saturn.

Europe's XMM-Newton telescope took an X-ray scan of the Milky Way's core, capturing some dazzling high-energy delights.

Stephen Petranek thinks humans will live on Mars within 20 years, and he states his case in a new book, "How We'll Live on Mars."

NASA began an early feasibility study for missions to the distant, mostly-ignored ice-giants Uranus and Neptune, a senior agency official said here Aug. 24.

The science fiction comedy movie favorite "Galaxy Quest" is one step closer to becoming a television series: Amazon Studios has purchased the project from Paramount Entertainment.

This Dawn image shows a portion of the southern hemisphere of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel, was taken on August 21, ...

Aquarius and Capricornus host a couple of star clusters that can be revealed in detail with a telescope. Saturn is visible after nightfall. Mars, Venus and Jupiter are pre-dawn planets this month. Lastly, a Supermoon...

As part of a broad effort to study the environmental and societal effects of climate change, NASA has begun a multi-year field campaign to investigate ecological impacts of the rapidly changing climate in Alaska and nort...

The Department of Energy has approved the start of construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera - the world's largest - at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Assembled at the DOE's SLAC National ...

Watch ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov being launched into space on 2 September. Coverage starts at 03:35 GMT (05:35 CEST), with launch at 04:38 GMT (06:38 CEST).

On Sept. 27th, 2015, Earthlings will be treated to a skywatching event not seen seen 1982. The 'Supermoon' will also turn a reddish hue due to the moon passing directly behind the Earth, into its shadow.

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Competition for NASA's fourth New Frontiers class of medium-sized robotic solar-system missions won't start for at least a mo...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Weather has pushed back the Atlas 5 launch of a U.S. Navy mobile communications satellite that had been scheduled for Monday ...

Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out -- by far the largest of this plan...

Do you think global warming is something that only affects us sometime in the future, decades or centuries from now? Think again. Our planet heating up is affecting us now, and has been for decades. We're already seeing ...

New study shows the sun may have snatched Sedna, Biden and other objects away from a neighbor --

On September 27th, 2015 there will be a very rare event in the night sky - a supermoon lunar eclipse. Watch this animated feature to learn more....

Europe's latest Galileo satellites are fully fuelled, leaving them ready to be attached to their launcher upper stage in preparation for their 11 September launch.

Space Science Image of the Week: LISA Pathfinder, planned for a Vega launch later this year, will pave the way for gravitational-wave observatories in space