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This week, the commands that will govern the Schiaparelli lander's descent and touchdown on Mars were uploaded to ESA's ExoMars spacecraft, enroute to the Red Planet.

ESA 2016 European Researchers' Night in Italy, 30 September

The imminent impact of the already deadly Category 4 Hurricane Matthew along the Florida Space Coast tonight, Thursday, October 6, has forced the closure of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and mass evacuations along th...

Today I learned that a feature on the surface of Mars has been named after a friend of mine....

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Despite concerns that aging spacecraft currently at Mars will fail in the next several years, NASA has yet to formally approve plans for any Mars missions beyond a 2020 rover, such as a new orbiter. SpaceNews.com

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

On Sept. 30, the European Space Agency concluded its Rosetta mission and the study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. During the final month of the mission, NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft had a unique opportuni...

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission. No Mars rover has done that before.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Paul Geithner, Deputy Project Manager – Technical for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Guests: Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier....

The International Space Station has been flying over Hurricane Matthew all week as the storm hit the Caribbean Sea and makes its way towards Florida. While the citizens of Florida braced for the hurricane's impact, the c...

NEW YORK -- "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" is a big-budget action movie built from a French comic which ran for 43 years, and its spot at New York Comic Con mashes up both those inspirations.

Neil deGrasse Tyson's hit radio and television show "StarTalk" brought astrophysics -- and an astronaut -- to New York Comic Con yesterday (Oct. 6) for a hilarious but educational panel discussion about space, superheroe...

This image from Copernicus Sentinel-3A shows the temperature at the top of Hurricane Matthew at 03:13 GMT (05:13 CEST) today, as it approached Florida in the USA....

This image, from the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite, shows the temperature at the top of Hurricane Matthew as it approached the US this morning

The Universe and life itself are the main characters in Terrence Malick's first documentary, which has been described by the director himself as "one of my greatest dreams". The movie is the story of the universe itself,...

With fewer future missions planned, the agency is rethinking how scientists will compete for access --

NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Mission satellite observations of Hurricane Matthew on October 2, 2015 were converted into a 3D visualization "to look at how the strong convention is causing the storm to intensif...

International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) is this Saturday (Oct. 8), but the best way to get to know Earth's neighbor is by observing it over multiple nights (and days).

After reviewing the documents on operations that were carried out to repair the technical malfunction of the Soyuz MS-02 manned transport vehicle (MTV) the State Commission resolved that the space ship may be launched to...

U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten will take the helm of U.S. Strategic Command during a Nov. 3 change of command ceremony at Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base. SpaceNews.com

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