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The heat shield for NASA's upcoming Mars rover suffered a fracture during testing recently, but the incident won't change the mission's launch date, agency officials said.

In a move that shocked lunar scientists, NASA has cancelled the only robotic vehicle under development to explore the surface of the Moon, despite President Donald Trump's vow to return people there.

Vice President Pence swears in our new NASA Administrator, a Hubble anniversary flythrough of a nebula, and the smell in the clouds of one of our outermost planets - a few of the stories to tell you about - This...

With the recent launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) – which took place on Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 – a lot of attention has been focused on the next-generation space telescopes that will be ...

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

Because life happened to Earth, its atmosphere, surface, and planetary crust have been profoundly altered again and again for some 4 billion years. Billions of years ago microbial life built an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Th...

This mosaic of cloud-free images from the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite spans the entire continent of Europe, and more....

NASA scientists must be prepared to look for fossil evidence of bacterial life on Mars dating back three billion years when most of its atmosphere and possibly existing life vanished in the solar wind. Fossils of early b...

S.J. Clarkson is in talks to direct Paramount Pictures' Star Trek 4, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The studio reportedly wants a female director for the position.

Roundup from ESA WebTV of Day 3 at the Berlin Air and Space Show, 27 April 2018