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The moon's surface is being "gardened"--churned by small impacts--more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. This means that surface features believed to be young are perhaps even younger than assumed...

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The longest living Martian rover ever - Opportunity - has just surpassed another unfathomable milestone - 4500 Sols (or days) exploring the Red Planet !! That's 50 times beyond her "warrantied" life expectancy of merely ...

Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it's all the same stuff: carbon atoms connected to hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and other elements. But how these funda...

As the ExoMars Schiaparelli module descends onto Mars on 19 October it will capture 15 images of the approaching surface. Scientists have simulated the view we can expect to see from the descent camera....

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Relying on data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, astronomers have found evidence of a new dwarf planet that is the farthest object from our Sun to date. The post A New Dwarf Planet Joins The Solar System Family appea...

Our Milky Way has a densely populated centre -- a feature common to many galaxies, but unique in that it is close enough to study in depth....

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins inspected the Bigelow Aerospace Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) attached to the International Space Station on Sept. 5, 2016. Expandable habitats are designed to take up less room on a spacec...

The original painting for the movie poster for "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" has sold for almost $400,000 at auction.

The Moon's surface is being "gardened" -- churned by small impacts -- more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought....

Media are invited to watch the first test of NASA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) research platform from noon to 2:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Reno-Stead Airport in Reno, Nevada.

A private effort is underway to find and fly the first German woman to space by 2020. From Sigmund Jähn to Alexander Gerst, all 11 of the space fliers from Germany have been men.

A former NASA shuttle launch manager is the new president of Virgin Galactic as the company prepares to enter a new phase of test flights for its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane. SpaceNews.com

A gigantic piece of the famous Campo del Cielo meteorite fall that was found on September 10, 2016 has been un-earthed, and is now on display in Gancedo, Chaco, Argentina. Photographer Pelin Rodriguez shared some images ...

The observable universe boasts at least 10 times as many galaxies as originally estimated, according to research published on Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal, bring the current estimate of an astounding two trillio...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

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The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories....

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Boeing is delaying a series of test flights of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle by up to six months, pushing back the first operational mission of the capsule until the end of 2018.