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Since it landed on Mars in 2012, the Curiosity rover has made some rather startling scientific discoveries. These include the discovery of methane and organic molecules, evidence of how it lost its ancient atmosphere, an...

After long delays caused by storms and rough seas, NASA on Sunday launched a rocket into space carrying an experiment built by students at Utah State University.

The White House sees a value in preserving and protecting the Apollo moon landing sites for historic, cultural and scientific objectives, but has qualms about hindering commercial initiatives or negotiating international...

Peterman: While WGS is an important capability for the military, it is technology that has been surpassed by the private sector. SpaceNews.com

Three new Expedition 55 crew members are beginning their first full workweek aboard the International Space Station....

"Mercury stands out from the other Solar System terrestrial planets, showing a very high fraction of iron and implying it formed in a different way," said David Armstrong from the University of Warwick's Astronomy and As...

NASA has awarded a contract to Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for continued environmental compliance and operation services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New M...

NASA's Project Mercury was the United States' first human-in-space program. Between 1961 and 1963, six astronauts carried out successful one-person spaceflights that offered physicians and scientists the first opportunit...

How would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight, responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make them possible? NASA is hiring new flight directors fo...

A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury - situated 339 million light years away -- has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick......

The first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named 'Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on the development of planetary systems....

The Project Mercury astronauts were military test pilots on active duty who volunteered for these missions....

After being assessed by the Standing Review Board, NASA has announced that the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope's will be delayed until 2020. The post Try to Contain Your Surprise. James Webb is Getting Delayed t...

NASA announced March 27 that the launch of its next flagship astronomy spacecraft, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be delayed an additional year and that the mission is likely to overrun its $8 billion cost cap. Spa...

If equal amounts of matter and antimatter had formed in the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago, one would have annihilated the other upon meeting, and today's universe would be full of energy but no matter to form.....

Heat and friction will destroy the space station.

So, you found a piece of space debris. Now what?

NASA has delayed the launch of its next-generation space telescope until 2020.

An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.

NASA's Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, describes his own gravity assist under the tutelage of James Van Allen, whose discoveries paved the way for studying the magnetic fields and radiation belts of the p...

A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury--situated 260 million light years away--has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the University of Warwick.

To commemorate the 45th anniversary of Apollo 17 -- the last time astronauts walked on the moon -- three key figures from the historic mission held a panel discussion at the 49th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Confer...