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Sierra Nevada Corporation is expected to perform a second glide test of its Dream Chaser vehicle as soon as next week, according to comments from a NASA official. SpaceNews.com

Surface features on Ceres -- -- and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think. A recent study analyzed Ceres' surface features to reveal clues about the dwarf planet's interior evolution. Spe...

XCOR Aerospace, a company that for nearly 20 years had been working on rocket engines and a suborbital spaceplane, filed for bankruptcy Nov. 8 after it was unable to line up new investors. SpaceNews.com

ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana: The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in the "String of Pearls," one of eight massive rotating storms at 40 degrees south latitude on the gas giant planet.

A day after NASA announced a new launch date for the first flight of the Space Launch System, the chairman of the House Science Committee said he found the development delays "disappointing" and warned further problems c...

A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet....

A day after NASA announced a new launch date for the first flight of the Space Launch System, the chairman of the House Science Committee said he found the development delays "disappointing" and warned further problems c...

The International Space Station is getting a delivery shipped from Virginia for a change.

A new study conducted by a team of Russian scientists has found that microorganisms on Mars can survive the tough conditions, even near the surface. The post Life on Mars can Survive for Millions of Years Even Right Near...

Tekever, a Portugal-based company with business interests ranging from clean energy to defense and logistics, is pulling together a team of domestic companies and organizations to build the first made-in-Portugal satelli...

The Millennium Falcon may have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but apparently its stealth mode leaves something to be desired.

For the first time, an International Space Station project is growing three distinct plant crops simultaneously in space, and crew members recently installed the largest plant- growth system on the station.

Dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops met a terrible end 66 million years ago. According to a new study, the frigid weather responsible for their extinction was far worse than earlier models suggested.

Astronomers have used the light-warping effects of gravity to spot a massive object OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, 13 times the mass of Jupiter and orbits a star about 22,000 light ye...

"The origin of life is one of the hardest problems in all of science, but it is also one of the most important," said Rowena Ball from the Mathematical Sciences Institute and Research School of Chemistry at Australia Nat...

A solid gold model of NASA's historic Apollo lunar module is up for auction, as one of the two others in existence is still missing after a museum heist. Buzz Aldrin's 18 karat gold Cartier-crafted model is estimated to ...

Check out this week's most viewed space and science posts via Twitter and Google search --The Cosmos Code to Antarctica's Buried SuperVolcano to China's Philosopher of First Contact. Proxima Centauri, Earth's Nearest Sta...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite takes us to the Republic of Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 September 2017. Part of Fiji's largest island, Viti Levu, is pictured here, with coral reefs speckling the water....

(Phys.org)--A pair of researchers at Tohoku University has found evidence suggesting that if the asteroid that struck the Earth near Chicxulub 66 million years ago had landed almost anywhere else, it would not have been ...

Our week through the lens: 6-10 November 2017

If skies are clear this weekend, be sure to take a few moments to gaze upward. You just might be lucky and catch a glimpse of a spectacularly bright meteor from the Taurid meteor shower.

Comets are our most direct link to the earliest stages of the formation and evolution of the solar system. Only every few years is a new comet discovered that is making its first trip to the inner solar system from the O...