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The launch of the ORS-5 space surveillance mission this summer will be the first liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 46 since 1999.

The Columbia Hills region is one of three locations on the Red Planet -- along with Jezero Crater and NE Syrtis -- that have been identified as leading contenders as landing sites for NASA's next Mars rover.

Elon Musk thinks human cyborgs could counter the threat from artificial intelligence.

The newfound structures in disks of dust and gas around newborn stars could aid planet formation --

NASA could launch a mission to land on Jupiter's moon Europa as soon as 2024 to look for evidence of past or present life on the icy world, a new report concludes. SpaceNews.com

"The program is conducting a regularly scheduled exercise this week," an Air Force statement said. SpaceNews.com

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This magnified, cropped image showing Jupiter and three of its moons was taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's MapCam instrument during optical navigation testing for the mission's Earth-Trojan Asteroid Search. The ima...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief spurts of radio emission, lasting just one-thousandth of a second, whose origins are mysterious. Fewer than two dozen have been identified in the past decade using giant radio telescope...

House Democrats have named Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) as the new ranking member of the space subcommittee as they finalized the roster of members who will serve on that subcommittee. SpaceNews.com

On Feb. 26th, 2017, the annular solar eclipse will begin west of Southern Chile and end over Angola, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. Partial eclipse will be visible over most of South America,...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, and the moon have a celestial date tonight (Feb. 14), offering a lovely night sky view for Valentine's Day.

A gigantic exoplanet and its host star have a very special relationship, a new study suggests.

A team of astronomers in Garching, Germany, discovered a comet-like object in a distant galaxy 170 light-years from Earth that is similar in composition to the famed Halley's comet -- however, this one is about 100,000 t...

The Oscar-nominated science fiction movie "Arrival" is out on Blu-ray today (Feb. 14) in 4K high dynamic range (HDR). Space.com recently spoke with the film's production designer about the striking visual elements of the...

An international team of astronomers released the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity method. They demonstrated how these observations can be use...

The first Hispanic woman to fly in space, Ellen Ochoa, and a physicist who turned to the stars to survive a collision in orbit, Michael Foale, will be inducted in the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in May.

As we begin the New Year, commercial satellite providers have never had greater opportunities to support the U.S. Department of Defense's ever-growing need for innovation in communications technology and service delivery...

"We thought that planets cannot really excite their stars, but we find that this one does," says Julien de Wit, a postdoc in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. "There is a physical link betwee...

The launch of the PSLV-C37 mission is scheduled for 10:58 p.m. Eastern Feb. 14. SpaceNews.com

Two new radio telescopes have been built at Onsala Space Observatory on Sweden's west coast, and on 18 May 2017 they will be inaugurated. The Onsala Twin Telescopes are part of an international network of radio telescope...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: