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U.S. Army officials went to Capitol Hill this week seeking lawmakers' approval to stop buying satellite communications systems that are susceptible to jamming and shift funds to more modern alternatives. SpaceNews.com

Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers.

At the International Astronautical Congress this week, Elon Musk revealed his plans to conduct missions to Mars and provide aerospace trips between major cities on Earth The post Elon Musk Reveals Further Plans to Coloni...

Media are invited to learn about NASA's deep space exploration plans and view hardware for the world's most powerful rocket, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), at the agency's Rocket Day, Wednesday, Oct. 11, at NASA locat...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars this month, observed by NASA missions in orbit and on the surface.

"These results have important implications for habitability and human exploration of the moon but also for the search of extraterrestrial life on Mars, says Dr Riccardo Pozzobon, of the University of Padova. "Lava tubes ...

The aerospace giant’s "Mars Base Camp” plan could send crews to the Red Planet’s surface for multi-year stays --

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the jagged islands along the west coast of Greenland in this false-colour image captured on 8 August 2017....

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in June 2017.

Media accreditation is open for the launch of the eighth Orbital ATK cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft is orbiting Venus to study the planet's climate and atmosphere.

Like The Martian, Andy Weir's new book will be hardcore sci-fi again with a moon city and real technology. "I've got a lot of contacts at JPL and NASA," Weir said in a 2015 interview. "I'm friends with a lot...     �...

Like The Martian, Andy Weir's new book will be hardcore sci-fi with a moon city and real technology. "I've got a lot of contacts at JPL and NASA," Weir said in a 2015 interview. "I'm friends with a lot of...       

The giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico sustained less damage from Hurricane Maria than originally thought, and may have little effect on plans to transfer its operations, a National Science Foundation official ...

The multibillion-dollar observatory is now scheduled to launch in spring of 2019 --

International Launch Services completed its third and final 2017 commercial Proton mission today, launching the AsiaSat-9 telecommunications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars this month, observed by NASA missions in orbit and on the surface. "NASA's distributed set of science missions is in the right place ...

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled ambitious plans Friday to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under half-an-hour. The planned interplanetary transport ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers.

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in August 2017.

Our week through the lens: 25-29 September 2017