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It's the first in a new line of spacecraft designed to eventually support a Chinese space station. SpaceNews.com

A Soyuz space capsule delivered an American astronaut making his first space flight and a veteran Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station on Thursday.

In the week's FISO Telecon Series, NASA engineer Michael Paul presented a novel concept for an in-situ miission to Venus. The post In-Situ Technology for Exploring Venus appeared first on Universe Today.

You’d have to be an intrepid explorer to investigate something named ‘Cape Tribulation’. Opportunity, NASA’s long-lived rover on Mars’ surface, has been just that. But Opportunity is now leaving Cape Tribulatio...

A new study from the Finnish Meteorological Institute shows how jettisoned hardware and Martian weather could make a dangerous combination! The post Mars Missions Need To Be Neat Freaks At Key Sites appeared first on Uni...

Titan's so-called "magic islands" are not islands at all, but nitrogen bubbles, according to researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The post The Bubbly Streams Of Titan appeared first on Universe Today.

With the help of an automated supernova-hunting pipeline and a galaxy sitting 2 bil-lion light years away from Earth that's acting as a "magnifying glass,'' astronomers have captured multiple images of a Type Ia supernov...

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"We know that these environments existed near this major pivot point in Mars history, and in mapping their context we know what came first, what came next and what came last," said ack Mustard, a professor at Brown Unive...

"We have unretouched photographic evidence of glaciers melting all around the globe," said Gregory Baker, adjunct professor of geology at the University of Kansas, whose research career centers on geophysical imaging of ...

Brown University researchers have published the most detailed geological history to date for a region of Mars known as Northeast Syrtis Major, a spot high on NASA's list of potential landing sites for its next Mars rover...

China's bid to establish a permanently crewed space station got a boost today (April 20) with the launch of the country's first cargo supply spacecraft - the Tianzhou-1.

It is not too early to begin preparing for the Great American Solar Eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017 -- and the sun's position on April 19, 20 and 21 will offer a perfect dress rehearsal for that historic event.

This Earth Day (April 22), NASA wants people around the world to "adopt" one of 64,000 sections of the planet seen from space.

If an asteroid strike kills you, it will probably do so with powerful winds and/or shock waves.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - A new Russian/American duo has arrived at the International Space Station this morning, April 20, after a six-hour flight following their successful launch aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on a f...

"The Mystery of the Milky Way," chronicles the history of telescopes, from Galileo's refractor to Newton's reflector and beyond. It looks at key discoveries, such as those made by William Herschel and his sister Caroline...

Radar mission Sentinel-1 continues to monitor the growing crack in Antarctica's Larsen-C ice shelf, which is expected to produce a massive iceberg

This stunning cosmic pairing of the two very different looking spiral galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298 was imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image brilliantly captures their warm stellar glow and brown, mo...

In a new episode of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's series "Crazy Engineering," engineers explain t how the probe will make it's last series of orbits around Saturn.

When it comes to exploring exoplanets, it may be wise to take a snorkel along. A new study, published in a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, has used a statistical model to predict t...

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