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At the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop this week, NASA made a series of presentations outlining plants to explore Europa and other places in the Solar System where life could exist. The post NASA’s Plans to Expl...

The private launch company must overcome several hurdles to meet its aggressive schedule for an ambitious lunar mission --

NASA launched three rockets into the aurora borealis on Thursday (March 2) to study what happens to Earth's upper atmosphere when it's bombarded with solar wind, or energetic particles that flow from the sun.

NASA awarded a contract to United Launch Alliance March 3 for the launch of the second in a series of next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites. SpaceNews.com

MRIs before and after space missions reveal that astronauts' brains compress and expand during spaceflight, according to a University of Michigan study....

Sentinel-2A takes us over part of Botswana's Central District in this false-colour image captured on 22 March 2016....

With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to help us find out if any of these planets could possibl...

Asteroids on the main belt, situated between Mars and Jupiter, move around the Sun in quasi circular orbits, so they do not undergo the temperature changes which, in comets, produce the characteristic tails....

Shane Kimbrough‏@astro_kimbrough .@NASAAmes looking great from @Space_Station - neighboring Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and a touch of San Jose California. Larger image...

Hidden Figures, writ large.

Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academai Sinica: