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Europe was poised Tuesday to place a paddling pool-sized lander on Mars and a gas-sniffing craft in its orbit as part of a mission with Russia to scour the Red Planet for signs of life.

The European Space Agency's Venus Express mission has provided a great amount of data from the surface and atmosphere of Earth's inner twin planet. Among these observations was the mapping of the southern hemisphere of V...

NASA researchers say that future Earths are more likely to appear inside giant galaxy clusters and in dwarf galaxies, which have yet to use up all their gas for building stars and accompanying planetary systems. By contr...

Roughly 1,400 satellites surround the word today, with 500 of those launched by the United States. While they all have various duties and capabilities, it is of utmost importance to correctly and efficiently identify the...

The next target for NASA's New Horizons mission -- which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015 -- apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main destination....

The weather forecast for faraway, blistering planets called "hot Jupiters" might go something like this: Cloudy nights and sunny days, with a high of 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1,300 degrees Celsius, or 1,600 Kelvin...

The next target for NASA's New Horizons mission - which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015 -- apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main destination.

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China's Shenzhou-11 has docked with the Tiangong-2 Space Station....

Long before the space age, Earthlings were already in hot pursuit of life on Mars, using primitive telescopes and even psychic mediums to seek evidence of sentient beings.

Defense Department and FAA officials foresee a gradual transition of space traffic management responsibilities from one agency to the other should the federal government decide to move head with such proposals. SpaceNews...

The European Space Agency's Venus Express mission has provided a great amount of data from the surface and atmosphere of Earth's inner twin planet....

The weather forecast for faraway, blistering planets called "hot Jupiters" might go something like this: Cloudy nights and sunny days, with a high of 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1,300 degrees Celsius, or 1,600 Kelvin...

In addition to the constant emission of warmth and light, our sun sends out occasional bursts of solar radiation that propel high-energy particles toward Earth. These solar energetic particles, or SEPs, can impact astron...

The NASA image shows the region around Gale Crater, which Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover is currently exploring. This mosaic is made from Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) images used to pick out distin...

Today, ESA astronaut Tim Peake opened a UK facility that will expand Europe's capability with satellites that rely wholly on electric propulsion.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Testing drinking water on the International Space Station

The Cygnus spacecraft's solar arrays have deployed. The cargo ship will rendezvous with the International Space Station on Sunday, Oct. 23....

Launch day has arrived for the Cygnus cargo craft which is scheduled to liftoff aboard the Orbital ATK Antares rocket today at 7:40 p.m. EDT. Two days later, three new crew members will launch aboard a Soyuz rocket for a...

Russia is set to launch the second ship in its new line of Soyuz crewed spacecraft to the International Space Station and, at the same time, mark the maiden flight of its new space vehicle -- albeit in miniature.

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Our Sun's orbit has only happened 20.4 times since the Sun itself formed 4.6 billion years ago. It's estimated that the Sun will continue fusing hydrogen for another 7 billion years. In other words, it only has another 3...