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The government of Australia announced Sept. 25 that it plans to formally establish a national space agency, a milestone sought for decades by the country's space industry and other space advocates. SpaceNews.com

The head of China's space program confirmed Sept. 25 that the July failure of the country's largest launch vehicle will lead to delays to upcoming lunar missions, including one to return samples. SpaceNews.com

The brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space. The rest of the moon, lit by light reflected from Saturn, presents a ghostly appearance....

A new study by an international team of scientists indicates how future missions to Mars should look for a rare element which could indicate that life once existed there The post Rare Element Could Point the Way to Past ...

"Once you have all of those four elements, you can actually go anywhere in the solar system by planet hopping or moon hopping," Elon Musk said at t June's ISS R&D conference in Washington, D.C. "So by establishing a prop...

"We found that a considerable fraction of the stellar mass of the galaxy was formed only a few million years ago, making this one of the best counterparts we've found of primordial galaxies," said University of Virginia ...

Georgia State University researchers have compiled a large solar dataset from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), making several hundred thousand solar events found on high-resolution solar images a...

Today- Marrow: Today a 52S crewmember conducted breath and ambient air sample collections for the Marrow investigation, which looks at the effect of microgravity on bone marrow....

A potential solution to the Fermi Paradox is getting a test this week, with the debut of a suite of "cosmic welcome mats" designed to let intelligent aliens know that Earth is happy to receive them (as long as they wipe ...

The government of Australia announced Sept. 25 that it plans to formally establish a national space agency, a milestone sought for decades by the country's space industry and other space advocates.

A start-up company from ESA's business incubator in Bavaria has developed a training app to help runners to exercise in a healthy way, and to reduce injuries from over-training.

"The X-Games of Astronomy" --Scientists Close to Actual Pictures of Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole (WATCH Today's 'Galaxy' Stream) This Week's "Planet Earth" Report --How a Hydrogen Bomb Would Affect the Pacific to ...

Cosmology by definition is the branch of astronomy involving the origin and evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to the future of the cosmos.

This striking image of Jupiter was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet.

A recently discovered dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the early universe, according to a research team that includes University of Vir...

Engineers have been at Russia's Plesetsk launch site for a month now, ticking off the jobs on the 'to do' list so that the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite is fit and ready for liftoff on 13 October. With the satellite n...

These 210 images reflect Rosetta's ever-changing view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko between July 2014 and September 2016.

In a few years, NASA's Earth-observing satellites will be tracking the forces that create malaria outbreaks, and their data will help local communities make big strides at warding off the deadly disease.

If you know anything about Saturn, you probably know that it's a planet surrounded by rings. But did you know that it's also surrounded by cats?

We'll tell you how to use your favorite sky-charting app to see the treats in the constellation Lyra's "coffee shop"!

Observations of the moon have revealed the final resting place of the European Space Agency's first lunar mission, SMART-1. The spacecraft was sent into a controlled impact with the lunar surface 11 years ago. Although a...

The Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility, named for a mathematician whose calculations helped put the first Americans in orbit and onto the moon, has opened its doors after a ribbon-cutting ceremony.