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A new NASA study reveals the source of puzzling lights near the lunar surface --

The memos covered the ISS, Mars exploration plans, and development of commercial space capabilities. SpaceNews.com

In a significant step towards restoring America's indigenous human spaceflight capability and fostering the new era of commercial space fight, NASA has awarded a slew of additional astronaut taxi flights from Boeing and ...

Two Expedition 50 astronauts are in final preparations for the first of two power maintenance spacewalks that starts Friday at 7 a.m. EST. Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson will stow and replace power gear dur...

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Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce "sparks" that could vaporize and melt the soil, perhaps as much as meteoroid impacts, ac...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: This week’s guest is Abigail “Astronaut Abby” Harrison. Abigail is the founder of The Mars Generation nonprofit. Currently a sophomore at Wellesley College in Massachusett...

After giving up a contested effort to pair licensed and unlicensed spectrum for a new wireless service, mobile satellite services provider Globalstar has revamped its terrestrial communications plan to create an LTE serv...

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The Defense Department has officially begun a study on what to do after the WGS satellite program wraps up. SpaceNews.com

From the most powerful telescope orbiting Mars comes a new view of Earth and its moon, showing continent-size detail on the planet and the relative size of the moon....

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are hurtling through unexplored territory on their road trip beyond our solar system....

New simulations from Harvard University undergraduate Eden Girma and her mentor, James Guillochon, an Einstein fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, presented January 4 at the American Astronomical S...

Artificial light at night is a threat to astronomical research, personal safety, and the health of both humans and wildlife. The problem is worsening with the proliferation of LED billboards and blue-rich white light LED...

Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit "skeleton" of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called PSR J1119-6127, has be...

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are hurtling through unexplored territory on their road trip beyond our solar system. Along the way, they are measuring the interstellar medium, the mysterious environment between stars. NAS...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The universe just got an address book. A new NASA catalog of objects will help scientists identify the distance of tens of thousands of objects that are so far away they date back to the beginning of the universe.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The Chandra X-ray Observatory was used to scan the same Deep Field-South sky that Hubble has observed. They are using the data to study black holes in the early Universe.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: