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The European Space Agency's ExoMars rover will survey, drill, and take pictures of areas where ancient microbes may have lived.

(Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) By reproducing the complexity of the cosmos through unprecedented simulations, a new study highlights the importance of the possible behaviour of very high energy photo...

NASA is preparing to release a solicitation for the commercial transportation of payloads to the lunar surface, the latest step in the agency's efforts to help promote the development of commercial lunar landers. SpaceNe...

A Canadian effort to build one of the most innovative radio telescopes in the world will open the universe to a new dimension of scientific study. The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, today installed the fi...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Two NASA astronauts are among the three crew members poised to launch for a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station, and NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of their prelaunch activities, launc...

The recent failure of PT Telkom's 18-year-old Telkom-1 satellite highlighted the risk associated with prolonged operations of aging satellites. SpaceNews.com

The largest solar flare in more than a decade could spark a spectacular auroral display here on Earth --

An EchoStar satellite that stopped obeying commands this summer has since been boosted into a graveyard orbit some 350 kilometers above the geostationary belt, EchoStar said Sept. 6. SpaceNews.com

With Hurricane Irma looming off the Florida coast, SpaceX beat unfavorable weather odds Thursday morning to send the U.S. Air Force's X-37B reusable spaceplane back into orbit for its fifth classified mission. SpaceNews....

The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has officially approved the naming of 14 features on the surface of Pluto. These are the first geological features on the planet...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): Have you ever wondered what makes the ALMA telescope so special? How it harnesses amazing technology to open a new window on the universe? What it can tell us about our cosmic...

"Because borates may play an important role in making RNA--one of the building blocks of life--finding boron on Mars further opens the possibility that life could have once arisen on the planet," said Patrick Gasda, a po...

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, and author Margot Lee-Shetterly are among the dignitaries honoring Katherine Johnson, former NASA employee and central character of the book and movie Hidden Figu...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A new set of Expedition 53 crew members arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site today ahead of their Sept. 12 liftoff to the International Space Station....

The Cassini spacecraft is set to pull off its final mission after 20 years in space, collecting data as it crashes into Saturn's atmosphere. Read all about Cassini's "Grand Finale" and its Sept. 15 suicide plunge.

The fifth mystery mission of the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane is now underway.

SpaceX launched the Air Force's super-secret space shuttle on Thursday, a technology tester capable of spending years in orbit.

Earth is transitioning from a Kardashev Scale Class IV--marked by a thick biosphere and life having some effect on the planet--to the final Class V, where a planet is profoundly affected by the activity of an advanced, e...

Three hurricanes are churning simultaneously in the Atlantic - a fairly rare occurrence that hasn't been since 2010.

IAU Press Releases: The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially approved the naming of fourteen features on the surface of Pluto. These are the...