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A defense authorization bill for 2016 could provide less funding for selected space and missile defense programs than the version vetoed by U.S. President Barack Obama. SpaceNews.com

Mars can wait -- NASA must first go back to the moon.

Watch as the International Takes Shape in this speeded up NASA animation of its decade-long assembly, which began in 1998 and will end around 2010.

Chances are "fair" for renewed contact with Europe's robot lab Philae, hurtling through space perched on a comet, a ground controller said Tuesday, four months after the tiny lander fell silent.

When we think of space travel, we tend to picture a massive rocket blasting off from Earth, with huge blast streams of fire and smoke coming out the bottom, as the enormous machine struggles to escape Earth’s gravity. ...

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The electric blue light around the edges of the small isles in this image are bioluminescence, radiating under the dazzling Milky Way in Maine. Astrophotographer Adam Woodworth took this image at the cliffs of Acadia Nat...

The idea of an international "Moon village" promoted by the head of ESA has support from a U.S. government official who sees a commercial opportunity. SpaceNews.com

Newfound lunar craters suggest that asteroids that smashed into the moon long ago were very different from the ones that now occupy the asteroid belt. Solving this mystery could shed light on the habitability of the earl...

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye "The Science Guy" came out for a daylong celebration of the 35-year anniversary of the Planetary Society, a space exploration advocacy organization.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

One of the perks of traveling up to Montana to record Crash Course Astronomy is that I get to participate with other fun stuff concocted by Hank Green's folks up there. One of the best is SciShow Quiz Show, a semi-(well,...

Here's a great new poster showing over 500 extrasolar planets (about one quarter of the total) that have been discovered since 1988. This visualization, created by graphic artist and writer Martin Vargic from Slovakia, i...

The RAS digest of upcoming space and astronomy news events, particularly those with UK involvement. The next two months see the launch of Tim Peake, the first official UK ESA astronaut, and the LISA Pathfinder mission. �...

NASA just added a bunch of not-exactly-recent photos to its Flickr stream, including these dramatic new photos of last October's Antares launch failure. SpaceNews.com

Tuesday's briefing begins with China unveiling a scale model of a Mars orbiter and lander it intends to launch to the red planet in 2020. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Major international collaboration has seen its first neutrinos - so-called 'ghost particles,' subatomic, almost massless high-energy particles that only interact via gravity or nuclear decay, generated in cosmic accelera...

So, did this past weekend's shift back to Standard Time for most of North America throw you for a loop? Coming the day after Halloween, 2015 was the earliest we can now shift back off Daylight Saving Time. Sunday won't f...