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New global images of Mars from the MAVEN mission show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously invisible behavior....

The German satellite duo TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X have consistently delivered one-of-a-kind Earth observation data since 2007 and 2010, hence shaping the international research landscape....

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A number of extrasolar planets have been found in the past two decades and now researchers agree that planets can have a wide variety of characteristics....

Statements attributed to SpaceX founder Elon Musk suggest he remains concerned that Falcon 9 rocket operations are vulnerable to attack by "a long list" of SpaceX adversaries even if it's unlikely that such an event was ...

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If successful, the October 19th landing would be a historic first for Europe's space programs --

The surprise discovery that the tiny red dwarf star has its own "starspot" cycle is a conundrum and is probably another sign that the "habitable" Proxima b isn't a place you'd want to visit.

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket rolled out to its launch pad in Virginia Thursday night carrying the American-made Cygnus cargo craft. Cygnus is scheduled to launch no earlier than Sunday at 8:03 p.m. EDT....

In the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the NASA Johnson Space Center there are full-size training modules that astronauts use to prepare for International Space Station missions. NASA astronaut Reid Weisman gives a tour...

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Once a nuclear submarine entered a deep, massive ocean such as the Pacific, it used to be believed that it would remain undetectable until it surfaced. But a space-based submarine detection platform could locate it with ...

Statements attributed to SpaceX founder Elon Musk suggest he remains concerned that Falcon 9 rocket operations are vulnerable to attack by "a long list" of SpaceX adversaries even if it's unlikely that such an event was ...

Last week, President Obama reaffirmed that NASA will put humans on Mars "by the 2030s." In an editorial on the CNN website, he wrote about an initiative that will help enable it: deep-space crew habitats designed by priv...

The Landsat-8 satellite takes us over Iceland's southeastern coast and the Vatnajökull glacier in this false-colour image from 6 September 2014. Glaciers cover 11% of Iceland's landscape, the largest being the Vatnajök...

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The solar wind blasts the closest planet to the sun, leaving it with the thinnest atmosphere of all the planets.

For the first time, Orbital ATK's revamped Antares rocket successfully soared into space, departing NASA's Wallops Flight Facility this evening on a mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

THe Orbital ATK cargo spacecraft launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Oct. 17, 2016. This was the return to flight for the Antares rocket, which was redesigned after its last launch failure.

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is raised into the vertical position on launch Pad-0A, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

An Oct. 11 opinion article written by President Barack Obama and published by CNN, outlined a vision for the future of space exploration....