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Jupiter's largest moons - aka. the Galilean Moons - could one day be colonized, providing humanity with limitless resources and incredible opportunities for research The post How Do We Colonize Jupiter’s Moons? appeare...

When you've got to go, but you're out there in space, zipped up in a spacesuit, with no toilet in sight and a crew of other astronauts around, what do you do?

A tiny lander that crashed on Mars last month flew into the Red Planet at 540 kilometres (335 miles) per hour instead of gently gliding to a stop, after a computer misjudged its altitude, scientists said.

Good progress has been made in investigating the ExoMars Schiaparelli anomaly of 19 October. A large volume of data recovered from the Mars lander shows that the atmospheric entry and associated braking occurred exactly ...

Heroes of Antarctic exploration have played a crucial role in research that suggests the area of sea ice around Antarctica has barely changed in size in 100 years....

Starting on 21st November 2016 and under cool northeasterly winds, dust has been lifted from the border provinces of Iran-Pakistan (Sistan-Balochistan) and drifted as a thin veil over the Arabian Sea and the Sea of Oman....

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

It’s that time again! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Heroes of Antarctic exploration have played a crucial role in research that suggests the area of sea ice around Antarctica has barely changed in size in 100 years. Ice observations recorded in the ships' logbooks of expl...

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will be launched to the International Space Station next year for his third spaceflight. The name and logo for his mission were announced today.

Eighty thousand reindeer have starved to death in Siberia during the past decade, and experts believe it's caused by sea ice melting due to rising temperatures that in turn caused more rain which then froze on the ground...

NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Expedition 38 flight engineer, poses for a photo with his Thanksgiving meal in the Unity node of the International Space Station in 2013....

In the far reaches of the solar system, a hidden planet larger than Earth may be lurking --

Scientists from The University of Manchester working on a revolutionary telescope project have harnessed the power of distributed computing from the UK's GridPP collaboration to tackle one of the Universe's biggest myste...

Join us Friday, 25 November, at 10:00 CET for the 'Earth from Space' video programme. This week features a Sentinel-3 image of Japan

Vector Space Systems said Nov. 18 that it has raised $1.25 million in funding to support development of its small launch vehicle, with a goal of a first launch by the end of next year.

Satellite fleet operator EchoStar Corp. on Nov. 23 said its EchoStar 23 tri-band telecommunications satellite for Brazil is expected to launch Jan. 8 or Jan. 9 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, F...

We know that there is sound on planets and moons in the solar system - places where there's a medium through which sound waves can be transmitted, such as an atmosphere or an ocean. But what about empty space? You may ha...

NASA published two video's for Thanksgiving. The first is their annual general Thanksgiving greeting while the second features Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough discussing how he and his crewmates will celebrate th...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft begins a series of daring dives through Saturn's rings Nov. 30, the first step in the probe's "grand finale" investigation of the gas giant planet.

The University of Western Australia's Zadko Telescope has been used by an international team to reconstruct the shape of a rare 'Barbarian' asteroid (space rock).

The international community needs to establish expected patterns of behavior in space, despite ongoing worldwide political tension, top Pentagon space experts said.