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Iron-rich rocks near ancient lake sites on Mars could hold vital clues that show life once existed there, research suggests.

As NASA shifts human exploration back to the Moon, U.S. commercial partnerships will be a key to expediting missions and building a sustainable presence on the lunar surface....

Last September, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun's surface next to an existing sunspot....

Two upcoming missions - NASA's Parker Solar Probe and the ESA's Solar Orbiter - will get closer to the Sun than ever before in the hopes of unlocking its secrets. The post Two Spacecraft Will Get Closer to the Sun Than E...

NASA has selected 304 proposals from U.S. small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase I of its 2018 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and 44 proposals for the Small Business Technology Tr...

NASA has exercised options under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract for two additional Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) spacecraft to be built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra...

Scientists in South Africa on Friday launched the world's first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining "eyes and ears" to try to unravel the secrets of the universe.

The presence of microbial life in Earth's stratosphere is not only opening up a new arena in which to study extremophiles, but is increasing the range of possible environments in which we may find life on other planets. ...

Our solar system is a tiny but wonderfully familiar corner of the vast, dark universe - we have even been able to land spacecraft on our celestial neighbours. Yet its outer reaches are still remarkably unmapped. Now we h...

An app featuring an augmented reality view of our planet soared past its crowdfunding goal in just a few hours.

Rocket Lab announced May 25 it has rescheduled the next launch of its Electron small rocket for late June after correcting a problem that delayed an April launch attempt. SpaceNews.com

"A lot of people have focused quite intensively on trying to understand what went extinct [at the end of the Cretaceous]," says Daniel Field, from the University of Bath. "But we know very little about how or why birds m...

The space race of old was between governments, but we may be on the brink of a 21st century private space race on an international scale. SpaceNews.com

4 continents, 12 telescopes, and half a million bits of space junk. The Falcon Telescope Network means business. And that business is being done in our very own backyard.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

It's no secret that the Milky Way is huge, long thought to be about 100,000 light-years end to end with about 200 billion stars and their orbiting planets, but new research shows that it may be much bigger than we...  �...

India has been hit by a streak of unusually intense thunderstorms, dust storms, and lightning so far in 2018....

Phase Four, a company developing an advanced electric propulsion system for use on cubesats and larger spacecraft, announced sales of its thrusters to NASA and Astro Digital May 24. SpaceNews.com

China's Chang'e-4 mission will become the first mission to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon.

Our week through the lens: 21 - 25 May 2018

Vesta is the second largest asteroid in the solar system.

The presence of microbial life in Earth's stratosphere is not only opening up a new arena in which to study extremophiles, but is increasing the range of possible environments in which we may find life on other planets. ...