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The eruption of Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii triggered a number of gas- and lava-oozing fissures in the East Riff Zone of the volcano. The fissures and high levels of sulfur dioxide gas prompted evacuations in...

At a recent space conference in China, the Chinese space agency recently indicated that the Long March 8 rocket will include a reusable first stage The post China is Working on Their Own Reusable Rocket: the First Stage ...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry has rolled out his mark of the FY-19 National Defense Authorization Act. SpaceNews.com

A new study by an international team of scientists ventures that the Earth has had several moons in the past, all of which crashed to Earth over time. The post How Many of Earth’s Moons Crashed Back Into the Planet? ap...

NASA's newly appointed administrator, Jim Bridenstine, will make a major speech at the Humans to Mars summit in Washington, DC, which takes place today (May 8) through Thursday (May 10). Watch the entire webcast live her...

New digital instruments at the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope site will allow scientists to survey larger areas of the Milky Way and better distinguish signals of interest in an attempt to identify intelligent extraterrest...

NASA has signed a second space act agreement with Uber Technologies, Inc., to further explore concepts and technologies related to urban air mobility (UAM) to ensure a safe and efficient system for future air transportat...

The first humanoid robot in space splashed down on Earth 57 years to the day after the first U.S. astronaut did the same.

An international team of astronomers headed by Dutch researchers from Leiden University has coincidently found a small companion around the young double star CS Cha....

A transformer designed to do grunt work for the oil industry and military is coming, and it's... admittedly kind of fun to look at.

'With these new capabilities, we are scanning our galaxy in unprecedented detail,' said Danny Price, Parkes Project Scientist with the Breakthrough Listen project at UC Berkeley. 'By trawling through these huge datasets ...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen safely returns to Earth in a Soyuz

"Horizons" is the name of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst's second mission to the International Space Station.

An international team of astronomers headed by Dutch researchers from Leiden University has coincidently found a small companion around the young double star CS Cha. The astronomers examined the dust disc of the binary, ...

An international team of scientists have discovered planetary waves of vorticity on and inside the Sun similar to those that significantly influence weather on Earth. Known as Rossby waves, they are a natural phenomenon ...

"Now in its fourth year, the annual Humans to Mars Report (H2MR) has become one of the most influential publications in the space community", said Rick Zucker, Explore Mars' Vice President (Policy)....

Scientists drilling deep into ancient rocks in the Arizona desert say they have documented a gradual shift in Earth's orbit that repeats regularly every 405,000 years, playing a role in natural climate swings. Astrophysi...

Now is a great time to see Jupiter in the night sky, as the planet reaches opposition on Wednesday, May 9.

NASA says it decided to cancel a lunar rover mission last month despite a renewed focus on lunar exploration because that one-time effort did not fit into a plan that emphasizes a much higher cadence of missions, initial...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will begin his second mission next month. Why the name 'Horizons'? Find out in this video

The Grateful Dead's legendary drummer Mickey Hart, with the help of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), takes audiences to the Big Bang and back in a new planetarium show called "Musica Universalis: The Greate...

The legendary Grateful Dead drummer collaborated with the American Museum of Natural History to develop the "Musica Universalis: The Greatest Story Ever Told" planetarium show. See his performance in pictures here!