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In a new op-ed, the President of the United States reiterated his plan to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s. --

In August astronomers announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth-sized planet (called Proxima b) in its habitable zone. At first glance, Proxima Centauri seems nothing like our Sun. It's a small, cool...

NASA and its partner Orbital ATK have postponed the launch of the company's next commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station to no earlier than Sunday, Oct. 16, as the agency prepares for Tropical Stor...

A new study takes a look at observational evidence obtained about Venus during its 2012 transit of the Sun, which shows unexpected x-rays coming from the planet The post X-Rays Are Coming From The Dark Side of Venus appe...

Today: Human Research Facility (HRF) Ultrasound Status: Over the weekend ground teams and the crew were able to successfully troubleshoot the data files on the HRF Ultrasound and to upgrade the backup unit....

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire have captured unique measurements of the Van Allen radiation belts, which circle the Earth, during an extremely rare solar wind event. The findings, which have never been ...

China's presumed ambition to snatch up satellite spectrum by purchasing struggling satellite operators around the world was one of the hottest topics at this years APSCC conference, despite the absence of the Chinese gov...

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center:

In August astronomers announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth-sized planet (called Proxima b) in its habitable zone....

A star with a ring of planets orbiting around it - that is the picture we know from our own solar system and from many of the thousands of exoplanets observed in recent years. But now researchers from the Niels Bohr Inst...

A private rocket launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore on Friday night (Oct. 14) could potentially be visible to millions of skywatchers along the U.S. East Coast, weather permitting.

Today's 14-minute digital transmission of 3,000 messages beamed toward Polaris, the North Star, by the European Space Agency's Cebreros deep-space tracking station in Spain ends a year-long effort known as "A Simple Resp...

NASA will move ahead later this year with plans to offer a docking port and other resources to companies interested in adding a commercial module to the International Space Station, NASA and the White House said Oct. 11....

A team of scientists, including Universities Space Research Association's David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), is studying rock cores recovered by a joint drilling expedition of the Chicxulub Impact Cr...

President Barack Obama wants the U.S. space program to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s and eventually into deep space, he wrote in a CNN op-ed published today (Oct. 11).

For good or ill, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton haven't said much about U.S. space policy during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. SpaceNews put nine identical questions to the Clinton and Trump camps. Here's what t...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

NASA's Wide Field Instrument will use Gravitational microlensing to complete the survey of exoplanets down to ten times smaller than the earth starting in mid-2020s. It will have a field of view that is 100 times greater...

(Phys.org)--Canadian astronomers report the discovery of a previously unseen infrared source in supernova remnant RCW 103, located some 10,000 light years away. According to a paper published Oct. 7 on arXiv.org, this ne...

Why does time flow from the past to the future? That's an extraordinarily deceptively simple question. It seems so, well, straightforward. But when you start to really investigate it, you wind up going down a rabbit hole...

Don Pettit captured video of a recent flight that saw his fellow astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Stephanie Wilson bank low over Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA's Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) project is trying to cut spaceflight costs by implementing more efficient technologies. Project manager Meg Nazario at the space agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland explains...