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The countdown has begun for the launch of Lego's Saturn V moon rocket. Lego rolled out its first photos and filed its "launch plan" for the "NASA Apollo Saturn V" model set to be released on June 1. The set is based on a...

The Tianzhou-1 spacecraft successfully transferred propellant to the Tiangong-2 module this week. SpaceNews.com

A team of researchers in Japan modeled the two rings around Chariklo, the smallest body in the Solar System known to have rings (Figure 1). This is the first time an entire ring system has been simulated using realistic ...

A new study of the TRAPPIST-1 system indicates that life-swapping may take place between the planets in its habitable zone, and quite often too! The post TRAPPIST-1 System Ideal For Life Swapping appeared first on Univer...

Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson said April 28 he remained optimistic that the company's SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle will carry him and other customers into space, but declined to give a specific schedule ...

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With multiple commercial aerospace companies offering flights into space, to the Moon, and even beyond, would-be passengers are starting to train for the likelihood of "space sickness". The post Pardon My Vomit: Zero G E...

Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the properties of dark matter, the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up a majority of matter in the universe. The study, which involves 1...

Learn all about the structure of the sun in the first episode of the astrophysics video-explainer series "We Don't Planet."

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

NASA highlights some of their work and milestones during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

In space, being outshone is an occupational hazard. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a galaxy named NGC 7250. Despite being remarkable in its own right--it has bright bursts of star formation and recor...

NASA's iconic Saturn V moon rocket and Apollo lunar landings get the Lego treatment in the NASA Apollo Saturn V Lego set. The set includes 1,969 pieces and debuts in June 2017.

SpaceX is preparing to launch a classified spacecraft into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket for the National Reconnaissance Office, breaking United Launch Alliance's 10-year monopoly on launching U.S. military and national sec...

"No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before," Earl Maize, Cassini project manager and a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in the statement. "We could only rely on predictions...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Just as a total solar eclipse will change the skies over the continental United States on Aug. 21, a newly released U.S. stamp will change when pressed with a finger -- a photo of the moon materializing over the blotted-...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite brings us over the Bering Sea, north of the Alaska Peninsula, on 26 March....

An international team of astronomers led The University of Manchester have found evidence of a new 'missing-link' black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, hidden in the Sagittarius constellation.

With Cassini making final preparations to penetrate Saturn's rings, and renewed interest in colonising the Moon and sending people to Mars, space flight and exploration are experiencing a level of interest not seen since...