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Using data from the Chandra observatory, a team of researchers witnessed the most distant X-ray explosion ever observed, and are not sure what caused it. The post Deepest X-ray Image Ever Made Contains Mysterious Explosi...

NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA will start work this spring on an orbiting X-ray astronomy telescope to replace one lost shortly after launch last year. SpaceNews.com

The NASA team studying a lander mission to Jupiter's moon Europa says their work is continuing even though the White House is requesting no funding for the mission in its latest budget.

SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk said he wants to go further in the reuse of his rockets after successfully launching the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that was recycled from a previous flight.

A comet whose identity took nearly 100 years to pin down is making its closest approach to Earth today (April 1), just in time for April Fools' Day, NASA officials said. It's the comet's closest Earth encounter in more t...

After more than a decade of controversy, the debate over the icy world's demotion to "dwarf planet" status shows no sign of stopping

Bizarre “plastic” dunes made sticky by static cling may cover the surface of Saturn's largest moon—and could threaten future missions there --

Today, you can sign up for an once-in-a-lifetime trip to Mars and even see the golf ball that was lofted from the lunar surface nearly 50 years ago at a new museum exhibit --also, Happy April Fools' Day!