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ESA's latest Mars orbiter has moved itself into a new path on its way to achieving the final orbit for probing the Red Planet.

NanoRacks announced plans Feb. 6 to work with Boeing on a commercial airlock designed to satisfy growing demand by companies seeking to launch cubesats and small satellites from the International Space station. SpaceNews...

The SM-3 Block 2A interceptor is a bigger and more capable version of the Raytheon-built SM-3 Block 1A and 1B interceptors. SpaceNews.com

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - With liftoff tentatively penciled in for mid-February, SpaceX still awaits FAA approval of a launch license for what will be the firms first Falcon 9 rocket to launch from historic pad 39A at t...

Students from the Weslaco Independent School District in Weslaco, Texas, will speak with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station at 12:05 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 9. The 20-min...

New data from NASA's Curiosity rover suggest a surprising dearth of greenhouse gases in the Red Planet's distant past --

How fluids move without gravity is being studied in the SPHERES-Slosh experiment on the International Space Station. To verify some results, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet was asked to slosh some liquid in transparent cont...

NASA scientist William Zhang has created and proven a technique for manufacturing lightweight, high-resolution X-ray mirrors using silicon--a material commonly associated with computer chips.

Waves of sand on the parched surface of Mars, spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover, are reminiscent of ripples on the surface of a lake.

A new book chronicles the history of the most bizarre and inspiring space missions ever conceived. The book's author (and regular Space.com contributor), Rod Pyle, talked with Space.com about these incredible space tales...

A trio of x-ray observatories has spied a supermassive black hole feasting on a giant star for more than a decade --

NASA's Juno spacecraft caught this mesmerizing image of cyclones on Jupiter's south pole during a close flyby Thursday, Feb. 2 -- one specific "point of interest" the public voted for.

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: A patchwork of pictures from the International Space Station

An international team led by researchers at Nagoya University, along with US and Swiss colleagues, has identified a new type of solar event and dated it to the year 5480 BC; they did this by measuring carbon-14 levels in...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said that launch rate should be possible once it starts flying out of Launch Complex 39A. SpaceNews.com

Hankering for some cometary action? An interplanetary interloper pays us a visit this weekend, sliding swiftly through the pre-dawn northern hemisphere sky. The post Watch Comet 45P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková Fly Past Ea...

ESA is offering university students a new opportunity to build and test their own CubeSats

An important milestone has been passed in the development of Euclid, a pioneering ESA mission to observe billions of faint galaxies and investigate the nature of dark matter and dark energy. The first flight hardware, in...

An exotic binary star system 380 light-years away has been identified as an elusive white dwarf pulsar - the first of its kind ever to be discovered in the universe - thanks to research by the University of Warwick.

African American astronautshave been another group of hidden figures in the U.S. space program --

By analyzing the level of a carbon isotope in tree rings from a specimen of an ancient bristlecone pine, a team led by Nagoya University researchers has revealed that the sun exhibited a unique pattern of activity in 548...