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In 2015, in partnership with NASA's New Horizons mission and the SETI Institute, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) endorsed the Our Pluto naming campaign, which allowed the public to participate in the explorati...

For the first time, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a single nearby star--and these new worlds could hold life.

A barter agreement the European Space Agency hopes to reach with NASA next year assumes the Trump administration won't drastically change the deep space exploration plans set in motion by the Obama administration SpaceNe...

NASA is inviting media to attend a test of the Orion spacecraft's parachutes on Wednesday, March 8, at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. Orion is scheduled for its second airdrop test, in a series of eight,...

Not only is it aurora season in Alaska, its sounding rocket season! NASA started launching a series of five sounding rockets from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska to study the aurora. The first of these rockets fo...

Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no obvious source of power for the light it is emitting. Called an "enormous Lyman-alpha nebula" (ELAN), it is the brightest and among...

NASA's Jupiter-circling spacecraft is stuck making long laps around the gas giant because of sticky valves.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A proposed new definition for what constitutes a "planet" could reinstate the demoted icy world --

The startup Lunar Station aims to launch a cubesat called MoonWatcher to Earth orbit early next year and then air webcasts based on the spacecraft's sharp imagery. The company has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help ...

NASA and SpaceX flight controllers in Houston and Hawthorne, California are reworking plans for the arrival Thursday of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft after its rendezvous to the International Space Station was aborted ea...

'Tis the season... eclipse season, that is, as an annular solar eclipse marks the end of the first cycle of two for 2017. And although the annular path for this eclipse passes some sparsely populated parts of the souther...

For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles above the Antarctic continent, riding the spiraling polar vortex. On Jan. 31, 2016, scientists sent the pre...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

For Houston, it will be a homecoming; for St. Louis, a product of its past. In Pittsburgh, it will be seen as a symbol of innovation; and in Seattle, an arrival worthy of a celebration.

Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet. The data from the New Horizons flyby finished...

New Horizons:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

After waving off a docking attempt on Feb. 22nd, 2017 due to a software glitch, the SpaceX cargo spacecraft was successfully berthed to the International Space Station on Feb. 23. NASA PAO commentator Rob Navias makes th...

The test of the engine, lasting 380 seconds, is part of a broader effort to qualify the engines for use on the core stage of the SLS. SpaceNews.com

IAU Press Releases:

A novel airborne experiment over the flat agricultural landscape of the Netherlands recently simulated, for the first time, images that could be taken by radar satellites orbiting in tandem.