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Here’s what 20students in a remote West African village,ages 10-17, came up with --

Ancient, buried hydrothermal systems are ideal sites to search for Martian fossils --

This is an photograph from the Oct. 31, 2017 Operation IceBridge flight over the Larsen C....

How we shall go to the moon in a coordinated manner? We need to somehow federate already existing program and business plans. The answer could be the Moon Village, a common conception of the moon as a destination for mul...

Tuesday, December 26, 2017: Today's links to headline stories from around the world on the threats, opportunities, and dangers facing our fragile planet --along with an occasional dash of humor, popular culture, and an i...

Ice on Jupiter's moon Europa may drift across the satellite's surface from the equator to the poles, or vice versa, at a literally glacial pace, a new study finds.

Three times further away from the sun than the Earth lies an enormous lump of metal. Around 252km in diameter, the metallic "M-class" asteroid 16 Psyche is the target of NASA's next mission to the belt of giant rocks tha...

Located 530 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Grus (The Crane), π1 Gruis is a cool red giant....

The crew has the day off today....

With 2018 approaching rapidly and 2017 coming to a close, the European Space Agency (ESA) can look back on a fruitful year....

The last picture taken of the Mars lander Beagle 2 showed it being successfully ejected from Mars Express on Christmas Day in 2003. But sadly, we never got a signal back from the lander and have ever since tried to work ...

Cassini reshaped scientists' understanding of Saturn and its 60-plus moons and brought the ringed planet's beauty and mystery to the masses. That storied work came to an end on Sept. 15, 2017, when Cassini dove intention...

The private spaceflight industry made some big leaps, and a NASA spacecraft that fundamentally altered our understanding of habitable worlds met its fiery end. Here are Space.com's picks for the top spaceflight stories o...

A Ukrainian-built Zenit rocket launched the South African country Angola's first communications satellite into orbit Tuesday (Dec. 26).

Earth is amazing. It's also a little weird.

People have been dreaming about space travel for hundreds of years, long before the arrival of the spectacular technologies behind space exploration today.

Scientists have discovered out-of-this-world minerals at the site of a 60 million-year-old meteorite impact on Scotland's remote Isle of Skye.

The maiden launch of NASA's new heavy-lift rocket now has a mission patch. The agency finalized its insignia representing Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), the first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), presently targete...