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NASA is offering $1.1 million in prize money in Phase 2 of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge for new ways to build houses where future space explorers can live and work....

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the world's most powerful rocket, is designed to be flexible and evolvable to meet a variety of crew and cargo mission needs for deep-space missions....

Nearly two years after the last Antares rocket crashed seconds after liftoff, Orbital ATK is ready to launch an upgraded version of the vehicle to send a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. SpaceN...

After seven months of space travel, the European Schiaparelli spacecraft is only a couple days away from making its final decent to the surface of the Red Planet -- and the stakes are high.

Europe's ExoMars Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module, Schiaparelli, will land on a relatively smooth, flat part of Meridiani Planum, just northwest of Endeavour Crater, on 19 October. In this topographic image...

European Space Agency's ExoMars mission control applaud the confirmation of the lander separating from the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on October 16, 2016. Schiaparelli is scheduled to land on the Red planet on Oct. 19.

October 16, November 14 and December 14 are the dates to see the moon at perigee, its closest point to Earth. The 'supermoon' can be up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than an apogee moon, when it's the furthest from Eart...

"Evolutionary selection, acting on a cosmic scale," says Adrian Kent of the University of Cambridge and Canada's Perimeter Institute. "tends to extinguish species which conspicuously advertise themselves and their habita...

Nearly two years after a privately built Antares rocket crashed and exploded, the booster's builder Orbital ATK is ready to return to flight tonight (Oct. 16) from Wallops Island, Virginia.