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The full moon shows up for a second time in March, on the 31st at 8:37 a.m. EDT -- a Blue "Paschal" Moon that sets the date of Easter.

U.S. telecom regulators the evening of March 29 accepted SpaceX's application to launch a megaconstellation of 4,425 broadband satellites, but denied the company's request to relax the deadline by which it must have its ...

As NASA prepares to request proposals from industry to develop the first element of its proposed cislunar gateway, the agency says it may be open to buying more than one of the modules. SpaceNews.com

Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and other ground-based observatories, a team of astronomers have found a galaxy that appears to have no dark matter. The post Hubble Finds a Galaxy with Almost no Dark Matter ap...

SpaceX delivered its latest batch of Iridium Next satellites to orbit Friday morning, but stopped its live video feed nine minutes into the launch citing orders from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati...

As Iridium finishes its new constellation, it's facing a changing competitive landscape. SpaceNews.com

The recent amazing success of the Falcon Heavy launch offers America an unprecedented opportunity to break the stagnation that has afflicted its human spaceflight program for decades. In short, the moon is now within rea...

One place China's Earth-bound and out-of-control spacelab, Tiangong-1, will probably not hit on Sunday is the forlorn spot in the southern Pacific Ocean where it was supposed to crash.

NASA is investing in technology concepts that includes meteoroid impact detection, space telescope swarms and small orbital debris mapping technologies that may one day be used for future space exploration missions.

Hayabusa2 is speeding toward an asteroid and will return a sample from its surface.

"In some ways, InSight is like a scientific time machine that will bring back information about the earliest stages of Mars' formation 4.5 billion years ago," said JPL's Bruce Banerdt, principal investigator for InSight....

A used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched 10 new Iridium Next communications satellites into orbit from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base Friday (March 30), one year to the day of the company's first used ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Six million years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a very different place than it is today. Plate tectonics had closed the Strait of Gibraltar separating modern-day Spain and Morocco, leaving the Mediterranean cut off from ...

Yale and USC researchers found that American seniors are aging more slowly according to their "biological age." U.S. life expectancy has lengthened significantly for the last 60 years. But at least part of the gains in l...

Our week through the lens: 26-30 March 2018

Hayabusa, a Japanese spacecraft that brought back mineral samples from an asteroid, was riddled with technical glitches.

China's defunct Tiangong-1 space lab is expected to make a fiery re-entry into the earth's atmosphere in the coming days and disintegrate in what Chinese authorities promise will be a "splendid" show.

More samples of comets are urgently required to better understand the early history of the solar system, say researchers analyzing comet dust brought back to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission in 2006.

NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program's Integrated Solar and Reflectarray Antenna, or ISARA, and Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration, or OCSD, spacecraft recently completed systems checkout and have moved ...

Testing continued on NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, spacecraft on inside the Astrotech processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in early March 20...

NASA is about to go on a journey to study the interior of Mars. The space agency held a news conference today at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, detailing the next mission to the Red Planet.