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The decision appears to end a two-year scrap over NASA's Bioastronautics contract. SpaceNews.com

On Tuesday, Sept. 29, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drilled its eighth hole on Mars, and its fifth since reaching Mount Sharp one year ago. The drilling of the hole 2.6-inches (65 millimeters) deep in a rock the team label...

Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a new method for measuring the mass of pulsars - highly magnetised rotating neutron stars formed from the remains of massive stars after they explode into sup...

The grammy-nominated singer-songwriter talks to Space.com about her hit song "Stars" and the inspiration behind designing a cosmic-themed wardrobe for her new solo record "Midnight" and latest tour in support of it.

The International Space Station Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) has approved a major update to the station docking system standard....

This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a location on Mars associated with the best-selling novel and Hollywood movie, "The Martian."...

The Straight to Ale brewery, located in Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, incorporates NASA history into many of its beers.

Here's a guide for October skywatchers: First catch Saturn, then Jupiter, Mars and Venus, and finally Mercury in the night sky as this month's planetary parade begins.

California Senator Ted Gaines contended that drones present safety issues, wanting to fine and even jail civilians who fly them. However, Governor Jerry Brown didn't agree.

The growing popularity of national imaging satellites should play to Israel's strength in low-weight, high-performance spacecraft. Isaac Ben-Israel says Israel is doing what's necessary to better equip -- and support -- ...

In 2017 a private moon landing could make news. If the mission is successful, said GeekWire, Moon Express could become the first privately backed venture to achieve a soft lunar landing.

See what's up in the night sky for October 2015, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in September 2015.

Astronomers have long turned their telescopes, be they on satellites in space or observatories on Earth, to the wide swaths of interstellar medium to get a look at the formation and birth of stars. However, the images pr...

The agency has said it could select two of the five finalists for the latest of its Discovery-class planetary missions -- including two Venus concepts and three asteroid concepts -- next year for full-scale development. ...

The International Space Station Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) has approved a major update to the station docking system standard. First released in 2010, the docking standard established a common station-to-space...

Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a new method for measuring the mass of pulsars - highly magnetised rotating neutron stars formed from the remains of massive stars after they explode into sup...

New Horizons:

NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation held a series of contests on Freelancer.com over the past couple of months. One of them entailed designing an Astronaut Smartwatch App interface.

Have you heard the big news? NASA has reported that Mark Whatney is alive and well on the surface of Mars. No, wait, they've reported that there's water on Mars. Didn't they already report this? Today we'll update you on...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The atmosphere keeps us alive and breathing, but it really sucks for astronomy. Fortunately, humanity has built and launched space telescopes that get above the pesky atmosphere, where the skies are really clear. Let's t...