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Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt wishes NASA had brought a bigger moon rock to the December 2017 signing ceremony for Space Policy Directive 1.

How could the oldest black holes have grown so big so early in the universe? --

The new president of Canadian space technology company MDA says he sees opportunities for growth both within the country and beyond, while maintaining the company's Canadian roots as part of a larger, and increasingly Am...

One of the highlights of 2017 was the discovery of the first object in our solar system that definitely came from somewhere else.

American and Japanese astronauts aboard the International Space Station will embark on a pair of spacewalks Jan. 23 and 29 to service the station's robotic arm. Experts from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will ...

A new study by a team of Chinese researchers considers whether a space-based laser station would be a good way to remove space junk The post China Has a Plan to Clean Up Space Junk with Lasers appeared first on Universe ...

A series of possibly "skylights" have been spotted in the Moon's norther polar region, offering possibilities for future exploration and maybe even a lunar base someday. The post Lava Tube Openings Found Near the Moon’...

Students at Framingham State University (FSU) in Massachusetts will speak with astronauts living, working, and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 12:15 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 19. The 20-minute, Earth...

ESA Science & Technology : ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the teams are on track in the preparati...

In 2014, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found that this enormous galaxy cluster contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns--so it's little wonder that it has earned the nickname o...

Our solar system may be an oddball in the universe. A new study using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope shows that in most cases, exoplanets orbiting the same star have similar sizes and regular spacing between the...

MIT and Caltech researchers say the credit for five new planets have been discovered outside our solar system goes mainly to citizen scientists -- about 10,000 from the around the world -- who pored through publicly avai...

While skywatchers are still raving about the solar eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017, it's time we turn our attention to the next big solar eclipses coming to the U.S. in 2023 and 2024.

The concept of "animal uplift" is most famously depicted in the Planet of the Apes movie series, whose planet-conquering protagonists are likely to put most people off the idea. But proponents are less pessimistic about ...

Dark surface features previously considered evidence of subsurface water flow on Mars have now been interpreted as being the result of dry, granular flows, according to a Nature Geoscience paper....

Everyone knows that about 65 million years ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out all the dinosaurs. Except, well, not so much. Most species of dinosaurs went extinct in the aftermath of the impact, but some...

ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colors....

Human Spaceflight and Exploration image of the week: Columbus is loaded for its trip to the launch site

"Venus is like Earth in so many ways," explains Stephen Hawking. "A sort of kissing cousin. She's almost the same size as Earth, a touch closer to the Sun. And, she has an atmosphere that could crush a submarine." In... ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured rare snowfall in northwest Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara desert....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: In 2014, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found that this enormous galaxy cluster contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns -- so it's little wo...

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue... In 2008 another Columbus sailed into space.