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SpaceX is hoping the fourth time's the charm with its bid today (March 4) to launch a commercial satellite into space and then return its rocket booster to Earth to land on a barge.

This Wednesday, March 9, the sun and moon will meet together in the daytime sky.

A coalition of space organizations released a white paper for presidential and other candidates March 4 calling for stability and continuity in space policy. SpaceNews.com

Space has not been an issue during the presidential campaign to date, creating uncertainty about what the next U.S. president will do with NASA after taking office. Jeff Foust reports on one congressional effort to provi...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Dr. Michelle Thaller, the assistant director for Science Communication at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. From 1998 to 2009 she was a staff scientist at the Infrared Processing an...

University of Chicago scientists have discovered evidence in a meteorite that a rare element, curium, was present during the formation of the solar system. This finding ends a 35-year-old debate on the possible presence ...

Science--like literature and the arts--helps nations cooperate together, even when they're in conflict politically. The USA and Russia are in conflict over the Ukraine and Syria, yet both nations still cooperate when it ...

NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman will return to her hometown of Helena, Montana March 5-12 to discuss next-generation aviation, meet with students at her alma mater high school and tour a local science museum.

"We see Titan as a natural oasis of remarkable astrobiological significance to understand the environment in which origin of life took place on Earth," said Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez, with the Institute of Space Sciences ...

Depending on where you live, either this Tuesday or Wednesday, there will be a total solar eclipse. But to see it, you'll have to journey to Indonesia, sail on a ship or fly in an aircraft over the North Pacific Ocean.

Aurora Flight Science's 'LighningStrike' experimental plane features will include: Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL), hover and high-speed ford-flight and will be powered by distributed hybrid-electric propulsion duct...

This video shows details of the Great Red Spot and belts of colorful clouds. --

"It's amazing that a galaxy so massive existed only 200 million to 300 million years after the very first stars started to form. It takes really fast growth, producing stars at a huge rate, to have formed a galaxy that.....

Our week through the lens: 29 February - 4 March 2016

Inside the first meeting of the committee to colonize the Red Planet --

Following the first impressive images from Sentinel-3A, this latest Copernicus satellite is now showing us how another of its instruments, an altimeter, will track sea-level change.

Just a reminder that this picture was taken by a one-ton plutonium-powered laser-eyed robotic mobile chemistry laboratory sitting on another planet. But I can't leave it there, of course. First, the self-portrait taken b...

NASA, in partnership with the Exploratorium Science Center in San Francisco, will host activities around the March 8 total solar eclipse, including opportunities to talk with solar scientists and live coverage of the ecl...

In this false colour image from 20 August, Sentinel-2A brings us to Utah's Salt Lake City and surroundings. Utah's capital in the United States, Salt Lake City, sits at 1300 m, bordered by the waters of the Great Salt La...

Space is mostly vast and empty. So whenever we notice something like ripples on a lake, on the frozen moon of a gas giant, we take notice.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has returned to Houston and his Expedition 46 crewmates Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov have returned to Russia. Their historic mission is over but there are three crew members who are stil...

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