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If you manage to get out of bed before sunrise in early January, a conjunction of Mars and Jupiter will greet you in the predawn sky.

SpaceX is now planning to attempt the first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket around the end of this month, the company's chief executive said Jan. 4. SpaceNews.com

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced Jan. 5 that NASA has confirmed that the company's Dream Chaser vehicle passed a key milestone during its November free flight test. SpaceNews.com

Morocco's launch of its Mohammed 6-A satellite last November could accelerate Spain's work on its SeoSat/Ingenio optical Earth-observation satellite, which is expected to launch in late 2019 or early 2020. SpaceNews.com

Wilson: The military has unique national security space needs that can't be met by the commercial market. SpaceNews.com

A report setting priorities for the next decade of Earth science missions recommends that NASA pursue a mix of large and small missions to help better understand the changing nature of the planet. SpaceNews.com

Ten years after the National Academies published the first Earth science decadal survey, NASA has flown one of the 15 recommended missions with two more scheduled to launch in 2018. SpaceNews.com

During Bridenstine's confirmation hearing last fall, Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida led a full-throated, tag-team assault on Bridenstine, painting him as divisive on social issues and accusing him of being a "climate denier...

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory: The New Year's celebration to usher in 2019 will include an event like no other -- one more than four billion miles from Earth. In just under a year -- shortly after m...

Robotics controllers have completed the science cargo transfers from the rear of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship, also known as its trunk. Dragon is due to depart the International Space Station Jan. 13 and return to Earth....

SpaceX is now planning to attempt the first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket around the end of this month, the company's chief executive said Jan. 4.

January 5, 2018. Links to today's 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 intriguing c...

January 5, 2018. Links to today's 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 intriguing c...

Media are invited to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 10, to hear about the results of recent cryogenic vacuum tests on the James Webb Space Telescope, and the next steps on the observ...

See images of NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission, which the agency plans to launch in July 2018. The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.

A new study comparing the abundance of nitrogen molecules in Earth's atmosphere and on the ground could one day help researchers find signs of biology on other planets.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: This image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows a galaxy named UGC 6093. As can be easily seen, UGC 6093 is something known as a barred ...

One of the highlights of 2017 was the discovery of the first object in our solar system that definitely came from somewhere else. At first we thought it was a comet, then an asteroid, and now the International Astronomic...

Space is big. Really big. It takes 10 years just to cross our solar system. The next star is 70,000 years away at the same speed. So if we're going to get anywhere, we're going to need more than just rockets.

Finding past or present microbial life on Mars would without doubt be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. And in just two years' time, there's a big opportunity to do so, with two rovers launching the...

One of the highlights of 2017 was the discovery of the first object in our solar system that definitely came from somewhere else. At first we thought it was a comet, then an asteroid, and now the International Astronomic...

It would be no exaggeration to say that we live in an age of renewed space exploration. In particular, the moon has become the focal point of increasing attention in recent years. In addition to President Trump's recent ...