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Startrails and a green aurora shine in this image taken by Deepanshu Arora at Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park.

ESA Euronews talks to ESA DG Jan Woerner on building a Moon Village

Nearly half a century ago we sent people on improbable voyages to another world - because we could....

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

A key U.S. House member said Feb. 24 that the Air Force's plan to invest more than $1 billion in a new rocket would violate the 2015 defense authorization law and that instead, the service should place a higher priority ...

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Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) said Feb. 26 he plans to introduce a wide-ranging space policy bill in April, but acknowledges that the full bill is unlikely to pass this year. SpaceNews.com

NASA will host a news conference with a team of astronauts who will launch to the International Space Station this summer, including NASA's Kate Rubins, at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, March 9, at the agency's Johnson Space Cen...

Two space-themed short films competing to take home one of the biggest movie prizes in the world, the Academy Awards, are available to watch online.

Scott Kelly, who has been living and working on the space station since last March and is set to return to Earth next week, isn't bringing home a souvenir for himself.

After nearly a year in space, US astronaut Scott Kelly craves the simple pleasures of human contact, a shower, and a splash in a swimming pool.

"Last Man on the Moon," a documentary about the life and experiences of former astronaut Eugene Cernan, drives home the reasons for humanity's pursuit of the stars.

"The Center of our Milky Way Galaxy is a place of extremes," says Mark Morris, an expert on The Galactic Center at UCLA. "For every star in our nighttime sky, for example, there would be a million for someone looking...

Always wanted to go to Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, New Guinea? Get there by March 9th (local time) to watch the moon pass directly in from of the Sun, casting a deep twilight across the blue Pacific skies.

"The sun's location within the dust-obscured galactic disk is a complicating factor to observe the galactic structure," said Denilso Camargo, lead author of the paper from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in B...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Satellite fleet operator Telesat of Canada on Feb. 25 said it was about to order two small Ka-band telecommunications satellite to be launched into low Earth orbit in 2017 to validate technologies the company would apply...

Friday's briefing begins with some less than encouraging words from the former NASA boss for the White House Office of Management and Budget. SpaceNews.com

It's another beautiful day on Mars! Highs in the lower -20s C, brisk winds from the southeast over most of Acidalia, low fog in Chryse Planitia, and upper-level orographic clouds off the Tharsis shield. Dress warmly and ...

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over central-eastern Egypt with this image from 17 January....

We live on a moving target in a cosmic firing range. Each day, the Earth is bombarded by about a hundred tonnes of space debris. It may sound alarming, but this is really nothing to worry about. Most of the objects that ...

Our week through the lens: 22-26 February 2016