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The European Commission gave a positive assessment of its Copernicus Earth-observation program, now in its third year, defending the free provision of data and emphasizing a need to make that data more applicable to non-...

The co-founder of a new congressional caucus devoted to NASA said he hopes to use it to advocate for the agency's needs in Congress once a new administrator is in place.

A new edition of an international space exploration planning document to be released early next year will offer an updated plan for human missions to the moon and Mars, emphasizing the role that NASA's proposed Deep Spac...

"Voyager-1 will be in orbit around the center of our galaxy with all its stars for billions of years," said Ed Stone, NASA's chief scientist on the Voyager Mission. If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in... �...

SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said late Dec. 1 that he has selected the payload that will fly on the first launch of the company's long-delayed Falcon Heavy rocket in January: a Tesla sports car. SpaceNews.com

There's a black hole in the middle of the history of life: how did we go from tiny bags of chemicals to the vast menagerie of creatures we see around us? Some 350 years after the discovery of cells, we...       

Sunday night's Full Cold Moon - a bigger and brighter full moon than usual - will kick off a very special "supermoon trilogy," NASA says. It includes three supermoons in a row, ending in a blue moon and total lunar eclip...

The deadline for students to apply to the Brooke Owens Fellowship Program is almost here! Please spread the word--every undergraduate woman you know should seriously consider applying for this one-of-a-kind program. Appl...

The next crew to launch to the International Space Station is in Russia today for traditional ceremonies before heading to the launch site in Kazakhstan. Back in space, the Expedition 53 crew is preparing for the departu...