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A Senate committee voted on party lines Jan. 18 to advance the nominations of individuals to lead NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, although with no clear indication of when, or if, they will ...

Researchers at McGill University are developing what they call the Life Detection Platform, a compact, robotic, energy-efficient system for detecting life on other worlds. The post Researchers Develop a New Low Cost/Low ...

NASA's new deep space exploration systems will send crew 40,000 miles beyond the Moon, and return them safely home....

"This immense cave represents the most important submerged archaeological site in the world, since it has more than a hundred archaeological contexts, among which is evidence of the first settlers of America, as well as ...

"We've taken technology to places where it was probably never meant to go." On her very first dive into the frigid waters of Antarctica, Orla Doherty's yellow submarine began taking on water. So she did what she was supp...

As the wheels of the U.S. government ground to a halt Friday at midnight, thousands of federal employees prepared to face days or weeks without work or pay until their offices reopened. Some employees will continue worki...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over part of northern Brazil's Marajó island in Pará state....

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

An Electron rocket built by the commercial startup Rocket Lab successfully took off today (Jan. 20) from New Zealand, carrying the company's first customer payloads.

Meteorite hunters in Michigan found six rocks Thursday (Jan. 18) that likely came from a spectacular fireball that lit up local skies earlier this week.

A nearly full "supermoon" rises above a pink band in the sky known as the "Belt of Venus" in this photo captured above Lake Alqueva in the Portuguese village of Monsaraz.

Meteorite hunters who flocked to Detroit from across the U.S. after a meteor exploded are finding the fragments.

As the federal government begins its first shutdown in more than four years Jan. 20, NASA's operating plans are little changed from that earlier shutdown, with most agency employees set to be furloughed. SpaceNews.com