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Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA, and Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos landed their Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m. EST. Russian recovery teams will help the crew exit the ...

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With all the talk about manned missions to Mars by the 2030s, its easy to overlook another major proposal for the next great leap. In recent years, the European Space Agency has been quite vocal about its plan to go back...

Arizona has long been a haven for astronomers who take advantage of its mountain peaks and vast stretches of dark, desert sky to gaze at stars and planets. The state is also home to a thriving billboard industry whose si...

The Defense Secretary offered some of his most expansive comments on space since taking over the Pentagon's top job last year. SpaceNews.com

After combing through Cornell-archived data, astronomers have discovered the pop-pop-pop of a mysterious, cosmic Gatling gun - 10 millisecond-long "fast radio bursts" - caught by the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, as ...

A volcano on Mars half the size of France spewed so much lava 3.5 billion years ago that the weight displaced the Red Planet's outer layers, according to a study released Wednesday.

A live Webcast Wednesday will discuss the invisible stuff that makes up most of the universe --

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The findings indicate that these "fast radi...

Astronomers have discovered a repeating source for an enigmatic cosmic phenomenon --

Houston, they're back. After a yearlong mission to the International Space Station, American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have finally returned to their home planet.

The vast farmlands of Pakistan a country with an economy based on agriculture rely on one of the largest continuous irrigation systems in the world....

Aerojet Rocketdyne has held discussions with at least two unnamed launch providers, in addition to United Launch Alliance, who have an interest in using a new engine the company is developing, Aerojet's president said Ma...

High school students are learning what it takes to create meals for astronauts, thanks to a NASA-sponsored space-food competition.

India's government gave the thumbs-up to start work on a gravitational-wave detector that would work in concert with the U.S. facility that recently announced the first direct detection of the space-time ripples.

RCW 106 is a sprawling cloud of gas and dust located about 12 000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Norma (The Carpenter's Square). The region gets its name from being the 106th entry in a catalogue of H ...

Failure is an option, argues Vint Cerf in this Space.com exclusive. Sometimes, "failure" is just a word that closed-minded people use when something challenges their beliefs.

Oh, I love this Cassini image of Saturn's moons and rings! It was taken in December 2015, when Cassini was just above the plane of the rings. Saturn's rings are hundreds of thousands of kilometers across, but from this a...

STARS4ALL, a European Union project which started at the end of 2015 --The International Year of Light-- will bring together for the first time groups related to information technology, social science, economics, astrono...

The NASA astronaut, who just spent 340 days on the International Space Station, talks to NASA public affairs office commentator Rob Navias shortly after landing about the "bitter sweet" feeling of being back.

Just two weeks after launch, the latest Sentinel has offered a taster of what it will provide for the EU's Copernicus programme