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An Illinois woman is legally entitled to own a lunar sample return bag that was mistakenly sold by the government, a Kansas judge has ruled. Despite NASA being "a victim," Nancy Carlson is entitled to the historic artifa...

Skywatchers around the world watched the rise and set of this year's last supermoon. Here are some of the most amazing supermoon photos shot by readers of Space.com.

Like most of the technology featured in National Geographic's "Mars" mini-series, the futuristic spacesuits worn by the Mars colonists are based on realistic ideas conjured up by scientists and engineers today.

For the first time in nearly 100 years, a solar eclipse will sweep across the entire continental United States, happening on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most skywatchers, so don...

NASA Television will air two programs live from Ohio celebrating the life of U.S. Marine, NASA astronaut and Ohio senator John Glenn today and Saturday, Dec. 17.

For centuries, humans have wondered whether Earth is unique in the universe, or if similar planets exist out there. Even a decade ago, we still did not know -- but then NASA's Kepler Space Telescope made discoveries that...

There are thousands of drone companies out there, but Intel has chosen to acquire Mavinci, a start-up from one of ESA's business incubators in Germany that has developed an easy-to-usesystem for land surveillance.

I've made something of a career in debunking nonsense when it comes to science, from people who think the Moon landings were faked to hair-on-fire UFOlogists who think every lens flare and dust mote in a photo is the pre...

Earth observation image of the week: the Spanish city of Seville and its surroundings, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

A panel of scientists explored the science behind light sabers, light speed, and the Force in the Star Wars universe.

Hurricane forecasters will soon have a new tool to better understand and forecast storm intensity. A constellation of eight microsatellites, called NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System mission, or CYGNSS, go...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Spiral galaxy IC 5201 sits 40 million light-years from us in the Crane constellation. As with most spirals we see, it has a bar of stars slicing through its center.

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(Phys.org)--Astronomers have spotted transient, transit-like dimming events of a young star named RIK-210 located some 472 light years away in the Upper Scorpius OB association. However, what puzzles the scientists is th...

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NASA spacecraft finds that Ceres is full of water --

A team led by astronomer Margot Brouwer (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands) has tested the new theory of theoretical physicist Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam) for the first time through the lensing effect of gr...

The uppermost layer of the sun is slowing down and astronomers think Einstein's special relativity could be to blame.

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be the 11th European to perform a spacewalk when he ventures outside the International Space Station next month. Lasting up to seven hours on 13 January, its goal is to ensure the power ...

After the smooth arrival of ESA's latest Mars orbiter, mission controllers are now preparing it for the ultimate challenge: dipping into the Red Planet's atmosphere to reach its final orbit.

Our week through the lens: 12-16 December 2016

In its first flight in nearly three and a half years, an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket successfully launched eight satellites for NASA Dec. 15 that will be used to improve hurricane forecasts. SpaceNews.com