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Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow said Nov. 17 that he believes that the Trump administration should as much as double NASA's budget in the coming years and make plans for a human return to the moon. SpaceNews.com

An international team of astrophysicists including Russian scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), MIPT, and Pulkovo Observatory of RAS has detected an abrupt decrease of pu...

NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine of Washington to conduct studies on questions of national importance within the domain of NASA science and technology ...

There's one thing that could mean the end of the Dawn mission: if the hydrazine fuel for its maneuvering thruster system runs out. Now, engineers for the Dawn mission have figured out a way to save on this fuel while sti...

Rock formations at the Gusev Crater on Mars closely resemble formations at El Tatio in Chile, which were partly formed by living processes. The post Mars Has Features That Look Very Similar To Life Bearing Hot Springs On...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

In this epic, 2-part episode, we team up with Isaac Arthur to imagine how humans will colonize the inner Solar System, becoming a true spacefaring civilization. The post Colonizing the Inner Solar System appeared first o...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Jason Wright is Professor in Penn State University’s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Jason studies nearby stars, their ages and activity levels, and their planeta...

The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of the dwarf planet....

Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow said Nov. 17 that he believes that the Trump administration should as much as double NASA's budget in the coming years and make plans for a human return to the moon.

The mass of "space junk" orbiting the Earth poses a serious threat to future exploration, a British scientist said on Friday at the launch of a project to raise awareness of the issue.

Two Chinese astronauts landed safely back on Earth after a month-long mission that set a new record for China's human spaceflight program.

Astrophysicist Janna Levin is back as host of StarTalk All-Stars, hunting for black holes with her guest, Shep Doeleman, the MIT astrophysicist leading the Event Horizon Telescope project to study black hole Sgr A* at th...

The next-generation NOAA satellite series will improve observations of the atmosphere, lightning, space weather, and more. It will help improve weather forecasts in the future.

Around 65 million years ago a massive asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico causing an impact so huge that the blast and subsequent knock-on effects wiped out around 75 per cent of all life on Earth, including most of...

Two Chinese astronauts, Chen Dong and Jing Haipeng, landed safely in north China's Inner Mongolia region on Friday after spending 30 days in the Tiangong-2 space laboratory....

The powerful new GOES-R Earth observation satellite will monitor the planet's weather, lightning and other phenomena like never before. See photos from the mission here.

A new environmental-monitoring satellite will fly a lightning mapper higher than ever before, permitting better severe-storm monitoring across the United States and in nearby regions, NASA officials say.

Regular readers may be familiar with Gavin Aung Than's wonderful web comic Zen Pencils: He takes famous quotations (or quotations from famous people, or just really, really good quotations) and draws a comic around them,...

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the Gibson Desert in Western Australia in this false-colour image....

The Soyuz MS-03 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 3:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 17 (2:20 a.m. Baikonur time, Nov. 18). At the time of launch, the space station was f...