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China launched the second vehicle in its "Tiangong" (meaning "Heavenly palace") programme to construct a space station in early September. Despite the success of the launch, the announcement was overshadowed by the ackno...

When the sun, moon and Earth are aligned, high tidal stress may increase the chances that an earthquake will grow bigger than it otherwise might have been. --

A PhD student from the University of Leicester is helping to shed light on life on Mars by exploring similar environments on Earth - including an underground salt mine in North Yorkshire.

Today, Elon Musk elaborated on his plans to make humanity a planet-faring species. We've known for a long time that Mars is SpaceX's destination, but the fine details haven't been revealed. In today's talk at the Interna...

Since it first landed on the surface of Mars on August 6th, 2012, the science team behind the Curiosity rover has conducted some crucial experiments. In the course of collecting rock samples, testing the air, and searchi...

Mercury is a fascinating planet. As our Suns' closest orbiting body, it experiences extremes of heat and cold, has the most eccentric orbit of any Solar planet, and an orbital resonance that makes a single day last as lo...

SpaceX has released the following video of their concept for an Interplanetary Transport System....

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Thomas Zurbuchen as the new associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington, effective Monday, Oct. 3.

The first spacecraft to orbit a comet will end its historic mission on Friday (Sept. 30) with a crash landing.

Technologies that would service and refuel satellites in orbit are finally ready for demonstration, according to a panel of business and government experts.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Testing antibacterial smart materials on the International Space Station

India's PSLV rocket on Sept. 26 successfully placed the Indian SCATSAT-1 meteorological satellite and seven co-passengers into separate polar low Earth orbits.

Mission managers are targeting the Oct. 9-13 timeframe for the launch of the sixth Orbital ATK resupply mission to the International Space Station. A pair of astronauts onboard the station are also training for the robot...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Judy Schmidt is a wonder. She's an amateur astronomer who loves to play with astronomical images from big observatories, and when she does, the results are, well, wondrous. Behold! That is an area of the sky in Cygnus, t...

I am not a doctor. Well, I am, but not the doctor doctor kind. So I don't usually report on medical stuff (with the exception of vaccines, of course)... but when I read this headline from a press release about a particul...

After more than two years at the comet, Rosetta is preparing for her final descent on 30 September

Its science instruments have been powered on, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft continues on its journey to an asteroid. The spacecraft has passed its initial instrument check with flying colors as it speeds toward a 2018...

The discovery of 54 cold, dense filaments of gas in the Milky Way galaxy may help scientists better understand how this galactic "skeleton" formed.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the company's Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), which will combine the most powerful rocket ever built with a spaceship designed to carry at least 100 people to the Red ...

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