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Arianespace on Sept. 29 completed a satellite launch first attempted earlier this month, having resolved an issue with one of the Ariane 5's solid rocket boosters. SpaceNews.com

Bali's Mount Agung Poised to Erupt An eruption at Bali's Mount Agung volcano is imminent, according to experts. Hundreds of tremors are being recorded at the site each day, and more than 75,000 people evacuated in the pa...

In this first trailer of Alex Garland's sci-fi thriller Annihilation, Natalie Portman plays a biologist looking for her missing husband while on an expedition with a secret agency and discovers a mysterious creature lurk...

Dr. Ellen Stofan, former Chief Scientist at NASA, who has been involved with numerous interplanetary spacecraft missions, including the Magellan spacecraft, leads a discussion on Earth's climate: using space exploration ...

Jellyfish and humans may seem wildly different, but both still need to sleep. At first glance, humans seem to have very little in common with Cassiopea, a primitive jellyfish. Cassiopea is brainless, spineless, and spend...

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviets put landers on the surface of Venus. One survived for 57 minutes (the planned design life was 32 minutes) in an environment with a temperature of 470 degrees Celsius and a pressure of....

China holds world's first 'unhackable' quantum videoconference in secure communication breakthrough between laboratories in Beijing and Vienna, that could herald the start of a new era of ultrasecure communications that ...

The Deep Space Gateway brings the dream of a human habitat in orbit about the moon and a stepping stone to Mars is now a step closer --

NASA plans to publish a revised launch date for the first mission of its Space Launch System in October amid reports that the flight has been pushed back to nearly the end of 2019.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft now has some nice photos of home to look at during its long flight to a distant asteroid.

Since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has ended its epic 13-year stint at Saturn, here's a look at some other missions en route to new destinations or slated to launch in the next few years.

An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars this month, observed by NASA missions in orbit and on the surface.

An Ariane 5 rocket put two commercial satellites into orbit after an initial attempt was aborted earlier this month, operator Arianespace said early Saturday.

Langley Research Center is responsible for many of the achievements made in space exploration.

A new study has indicated that the depletion of carbon from Earth-forming materials may have been essential to life here on Earth. The post New Study Says Earth Avoided a “Carbon Overdose” During Formation appeared f...

Ariane 5 has delivered two telecom satellites, Intelsat-37e and BSAT-4a, into their planned orbits.