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SpaceX on Thursday prepared to launch its new Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, which the California-based company promises to be more powerful and easier to re-use.

This movie, based on images taken by ESA's Mars Express, showcases the 102 km wide Neukum Crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars....

According to a new study by a team of Earth scientists and geologist, the way Venus and Jupiter affect Earth's orbit is the most predictable and stable indicator of periodic changes in our climate. The post Jupiter and V...

"If an explosion happens, there's a risk at all scales," said Donald Swanson, a USGS volcanologist. "If you're near the crater, within half a mile, you could be subject to ballistic blocks weighing as much as 10 or 12 to...

Maxar Technologies won't have access to the Canadian military's three-satellite Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM), forcing the company to continue relying on the Radarsat-2 satellite launched in 2007 to support its ra...

A new study by an international team of researchers indicates that Mars' growth was stunted due to the orbital instability of the planets in the outer Solar System. The post The Giant Planets in the Solar System Stunted ...

Rogers: Regardless of what the final DoD report states, "there's still things in space that have to be fixed." SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

On 5 May 2018, ESA's 35 m-diameter deep-space radio dish at New Norcia, Western Australia, monitored NASA's InSight spacecraft providing critical tracking support during launch and early operations on its journey to Mars...

Members of NASA's Juno mission team, some of the world's leading observers of Jupiter, and citizen scientists from across the globe will attend a workshop 'New Views of Jupiter: Pro-Am Collaborations during and beyond th...

The space agency hasn't funded the search for extraterrestrial intelligence for 25 years. Could that soon change? "Seti is not the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. We can't define intelligence, and we sure as he...

"We are particularly excited about the prospect of characterizing oxygen fluctuations at the low levels we would expect to find on an early version of Earth," said Timothy Lyons, a professor of biogeochemistry in Univers...

Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift rocket that takes satellites and other payloads into Earth orbit.

Cosmic rays are atom fragments that rain down on the Earth from outside of the solar system.

Astronomers' newfound ability to see the same cosmic events in light, particles and gravitational waves—a synthesis called multimessenger astronomy—gives them a fuller picture of some of... --

A new study validates the feasibility of constructing gossamer-thin lightsails for propelling spacecraft to other stars --

NASA's Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, speaks to planetary scientists Faith Vilas about Mercury and what it can tell us about planet formation.

Australian beer company 4 Pines Brewing and space-engineering firm Saber Astronautics Australia have launched an Indiegogo campaign to help the two build a bottle specially designed so that astronauts can drink beer in m...

The crew of the International Space Station snapped this image of the full Moon on April 30, 2018, as the station orbited off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

A House funding bill approved by an appropriations subcommittee May 9 will help keep a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa on track for a launch in 2022. SpaceNews.com

The newest iteration of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket will make its debut today (May 10), and you can watch the maiden liftoff (and landing attempt) live.

The ESA Planck team has been honoured with the 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize for its mission mapping the cosmic microwave background - relic radiation from the Big Bang that is still observable today.