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The battered face of Saturn's frigid moon Dione gets a close-up in a gorgeous photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Using VST ATLAS and WISE surveys astronomers have identified two new bright high-redshift quasars. The newly found quasi-stellar objects, designated VST-ATLAS J158.6938-14.4211 and VST-ATLAS J332.8017-32.1036, could be h...

Before the International Space Station, prior to the space shuttle, but after the final moon landing, nine Americans took the first steps to establishing a U.S. foothold in Earth orbit.

Some might think it’s paranoid to think about an asteroid hitting Earth and wiping us out. But the history of life on Earth shows at least 5 major extinctions. And at least once, about 65 million years ago, that extinc...

Astronomers have put NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an ancient "relic galaxy" in our own cosmic backyard.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a very odd galaxy only a quarter the size of the Milky with a strange population of globular clusters and a bizarre absurdly large supermassive black hole with a mass equivalent...

Blue Origin has added a fourth customer to its launch manifest for the still-in-development New Glenn rocket. SpaceNews.com

Today - Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): Today the crew exchanged the sample cartridges within ELF to prepare for upcoming ground commanded operations....

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog.

A new study conducted with the support of the NASA Astrobiology Institute has theorized that life may exist on the undersides of Europa's icy surface. The post Could There be Alien Life Right Beneath the Surface of Icy W...

"If we can understand the chemical complexity of these ices in the molecular cloud, and how they evolve during the formation of a star and its planets, then we can assess whether the building blocks of life should exist ...

Climate change is a more important driver of migration than income and political freedom at origin countries combined, and that figure may even be underestimated, says a leading researcher on the interplay between climat...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Robert Lightfoot, who has led NASA on an interim basis for more than a year, announced March 12 that he will retire from the agency at the end of April, adding more uncertainty about the agency's leadership. SpaceNews.co...

Imagine a year in Africa that summer never arrives. The sky takes on a gray hue during the day and glows red at night. Flowers do not bloom. Trees die in the winter. Large mammals like antelope become thin, starve...  �...

The researchers found that the red dwarfs planet, K2-155d, could potentially have liquid water on its surface based on three-dimensional global climate simulations. Teruyuki Hirano of Tokyo Institute of Technology said "...

SpaceX has released a tear-jerking new video of the historic first flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket, which launched Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and a dummy named Starman on a journey into the solar system.

Bennu is an asteroid that might collide with Earth someday, although the chances are slim. A NASA spacecraft is en route to rendezvous with the asteroid, collect and sample and bring it back to Earth.

The space industry's struggle to draw young professionals is causing its workforce to lose members faster than they are gained, according to research from Deloitte Consulting. SpaceNews.com

"As only the Moon's South Pole can receive sunlight in most of its area throughout the year, we want to land at such a place where there might be abundant sunshine and possibly water to build a robotic research station.....

During peacetime and in conflict, the U.S. military still relies on decades-old enterprise ground systems (EGS) in their attempt to achieve true situational awareness. SpaceNews.com

Keeping an eye on your health is extra important if you're 54 million kilometres from a hospital.