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Two NASA artifacts that were used to assist astronauts landing from space, albeit on two different worlds in two eras, have landed on loan at a museum near where they were last used. An LLRV and a shuttle crew transport ...

Researchers have tested optical clock technology in space for the first time, showing that the extremely precise technology could find a use in space-based applications.

Multiple companies are pursuing space mining activities, so what's standing in the way of a space mining gold rush?

A team of researchers, led by University of California, Riverside astronomers, found for the first time a large population of distant dwarf galaxies that could reveal important details about a productive period of star f...

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Space.com talked with "Arrival" consultant Stephen Wolfram about the way science fits into movies, how aliens are like artificial intelligences and whether math is invented or discovered -- and what that would mean for a...

National Geographic's series "MARS," about the planning now for and future achievement of landing astronauts on the Red Planet, has claimed its first "victim."

Scientists think bright spots may be briny material bubbling up into a crater --

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Sometime in the near geological future, the landscape of life on earth as we know it will be transformed. It's a mass extinction, and it's only happened five times before in Earth's history. There have been severe ice ag...

European spirit, identity and cohesion are the overarching aspects for Europe to achieve the best of outcomes for its states and citizens in space and for a globally successful European space sector

Prior to the 2016 Ministerial Council, a conference held by the 22 member states of ESA to discuss the "future of space activities from Europe," this highlight reel of achievements and forward thinking was compiled.

How does fire act in space? Researchers will soon find out, by igniting nine different materials aboard an unmanned spaceship on its way to a fiery re-entry to Earth's atmosphere, NASA said Monday.

Today: Preparation for Cygnus Unberth and Release: The crew completed configuring the Cygnus and the Node 1 vestibule in preparation for Cygnus departure on Monday, November 21st....

Human exploration of Mars has been ramping up in the past few decades. In addition to the eight active missions on or around the Red Planet, seven more robotic landers, rovers and orbiters are scheduled to be deployed th...

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) are part of an international team that has discovered minute fluctuations in Saturn's gravitational field using several thousand images of the planet's moons obtaine...

It has just become harder for surprise meteor showers to escape our attention.

I've written quite a bit over the past few years about the death spiral of sea ice at the North Pole. Every year the amount of ice goes up and down with the seasons, growing in winter and declining in summer. But, on top...

The question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has been asked by people for many years.

This Hubble image shows NGC 4789A, a dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It certainly lives up to its name--the stars that call this galaxy home are smeared out across the sky in an apparently ...