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When humans begin to colonize the moon and Mars, they will need to be able to make everything from small tools to large buildings using the limited surrounding resources....

The White House declined to comment on any interest the administration has in mining the moon. SpaceNews.com

Have you ever wondered how the date of Easter is actually set? It is all based on the moon.

A bipartisan group of 20 House members has asked the Defense Department not to alter the U.S. Air Force's plans to fund development of new launch systems. SpaceNews.com

NASA, in coordination with United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Orbital ATK, will broadcast the world's first live 360-degree stream of a rocket launch.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week’s special guest is Brad Peterson. Brad is a returning guest, and since his last appearance, he has been asked by NASA to serve as a community co-chair, with Debra Fis...

Episode VIII of the series hits theaters in December 2017. The trailer was released at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, Florida on April 14, 2017.

The "Apollo 11 50th anniversary coin design competition" is set to select an obverse design for the gold, silver and clad coins to be is set to select an obverse design for the gold, silver and clad coins to be issued in...

At the 40th anniversary panel, that included Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, George Lucas and more, a video tribute was played for the actress who passed away in December 2016.

An asteroid as big as the Rock of Gibraltar will streak past Earth on April 18 at a safe but uncomfortably close distance, according to astronomers.

"The amount of molecular hydrogen we detected is high enough to support microbes similar to those that live near hydrothermal vents on Earth," said SwRI's Dr. Christopher Glein, a co-author on the paper and a pioneer of ...

The three Expedition 51 crew members aboard the International Space Station are waiting for a new cargo shipment and a new crew to arrive next week. The orbiting trio are also performing human research and working on U.S...

Although galaxy formation and evolution are still far from being fully understood, the conditions we see within certain galaxies--such as so-called starburst galaxies--can tell us a lot about how they have evolved over t...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

Our week through the lens: 10-14 April 2017

Sentinel-2A takes us over central-eastern Brazil - more specifically where the Bahia, Tocantins and Goiás states meet....

When Galileo discovered Jupiter's moon Europa in 1610, along with three other satellites whirling around the giant planet, he could have barely imagined it was such a world of wonder.

These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moon, Atlas, were taken on April 12, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of about 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers).

Discoveries involving two "ocean world" moons in the outer solar system announced April 13 are likely to bolster the case for planned and proposed spacecraft missions to those worlds. SpaceNews.com

ESA operates its Optical Ground Station (OGS) at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife, Spain, where a Zeiss 1 m-diameter telescope is used to survey and characterise objects near the 'geostationary ring' some 36 000 km abov...

With NASA's long-term strategy for human missions to Mars in flux, heads of several space agencies said they supported initial missions to the moon as a key step before going to Mars.

Does the discovery of habitable conditions on Saturn's moon Enceladus call for a mission to search for definitive signs of life on the icy moon?