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All of the books ever written, the genetic blueprint for human life and much of the other information that defines us as a species could soon be riding laser beams toward faraway exoplanets.

On Valentine's Day last year--Feb. 14, 2015--the Rosetta space probe passed an astonishing six kilometers above the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Mind you, the comet is only about four km end to end, so...

ESA's Venus Express reveals details on Venus' surface by studying patterns of clouds in its thick atmosphere

The private spaceflight company is leading the rocket reusability race with five successful landing to date. See all five 'touchdowns' - two 'solid ground' and three 'droneship' landings.

NASA's Kepler confirms 100+ exoplanets during its K2 mission. It's the largest haul of confirmed planets obtained since the space observatory transitioned to a different mode of observing includes a planetary system comp...

An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission....

NASA Breaking News:

An international team of astronomers have discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds. The researchers achieved this extraordinary discovery of exoplanets by combining NASA's K2 mission data with follow-up ob...

This striking perspective view from ESA's Mars Express shows an unnamed but eye-catching impact crater on Mars....

John Glenn is being showered with birthday recognition.

Using observations from ESA's Venus Express satellite, scientists have shown for the first time how weather patterns seen in Venus' thick cloud layers are directly linked to the topography of the surface below. Rather th...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

A post-launch news conference was held July 18 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, following the launch of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station....

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission. Among the findings tallying 197 initial ...

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On July 18, 2016, SpaceX launched its robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station and brought the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back down for a landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...

California Institute of Technology:

SpaceX plans to refly one of its landed Falcon 9 rockets for the first time this fall -- and a robotic Dragon cargo capsule should make history by launching on a repeat ISS resupply mission shortly thereafter.

NASA: Kepler News and Features:

Square Kilometer Array: MeerKAT First Light image. Each white dot represents the intensity of radio waves recorded with 16 dishes of the MeerKAT telescope in the Karoo (when completed, MeerKAT will consist of 64 dishes a...

Venus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius....