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Minutes after the first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 landed Dec. 21 near its Cape Canaveral launch pad, the Blue Origin and Amazon.com founder posted a needling tweet. SpaceNews.com

After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission. The decision follows ...

Just under four months into the science phase of the mission, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, is delivering promising early results on a process called magnetic reconnection -- a kind of magnetic explosion that...

How does Star Wars's space opera look to someone who's actually been in space?

The Star Wars films raise lots of pressing questions. "Why is there sound in space?" "How did George Lucas lose his way?" And, of course, "Did Han shoot first?" (that's an easy one).

Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly, Flight Engineer Tim Kopra and Flight Engineer Tim Peake talk about being away for the holidays and send their holiday message.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon a $2.3 billion contract modification to build as many as 52 Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block 1B interceptors. SpaceNews.com

After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to call off the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission....

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A day after SpaceX pulled off an upright landing of its powerful Falcon 9 rocket, the head of France's space agency called it a "technological feat" but warned of more work ahead.

Faulty seismometer will delay the launch of the InSight lander for at least 26 months --

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit at dwarf planet Ceres, has delivered the first images from its best-ever viewpoint. The new images showcase details of the cratered and fractured surface. 3-...

The massive U.S. federal spending bill passed by Congress includes $18.5 million for an Air Force office tasked with building a small weather satellite. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit at dwarf planet Ceres, has delivered the first images from its best-ever viewpoint....

Once considered the stuff of science fiction, fully reusable rocketry is now closer to reality than ever before --

Let's just say Bezos, founder of the Blue Origin space company and fellow billionaire, wasn't impressed with the Falcon 9 orbital rocket landing back on Earth.

"There and back again," said SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk after the amazing successful 'Return to Flight' launch of the firms Falcon 9 rocket and history making vertical return landing at Cape Canaveral, Fla, on Mond...

A decade ago, Stephen Hawking observed that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. This week,...

On Christmas Day, a full moon will light up the sky. It's the first Christmas full moon in 34 years, and the last until 2034.

In 2015, NASA explored the expanse of our solar system and beyond, and the complex processes of our home planet, while also advancing the technologies for our journey to Mars, and new aviation systems as the agency reach...

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Space.com readers have sent in their best photos of the Geminid meteor shower taking place in December 2015.