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After a 42-month journey, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrived at asteroid 162173 Ryugu, 300 million km from Earth, on 27 June at 02:35 CEST (00:35 GMT).

Data from the international Cassini spacecraft have revealed complex organic molecules originating from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, strengthening the idea that this ocean-world hosts conditions suitable for life.

A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet 500 light-years away is much like Earth.

The RemoveDebris satellite, a spacecraft designed to remove junk from orbit, recently deployed from the ISS to begin demonstrating its capabilities. The post A Satellite With a Harpoon, Net and Drag Sail to Capture Space...

'Oumuamua -- the first interstellar object discovered within our solar system -- has been the subject of intense scrutiny since its discovery in October 2017....

The House of Representatives passed two non-controversial space bills June 27 addressing leadership in rocket propulsion research and licensing of commercial space support vehicles. SpaceNews.com

There are about 150 program managers who oversee satcom terminals across the Defense Department. It could take decades to upgrade up to 17,000 systems. SpaceNews.com

A solar telescope that captures images of the entire disk of the Sun, monitoring eruptions taking place simultaneously in different magnetic fields in both the photosphere and chromosphere, is now being installed beside ...

To be successful, scientists searching for extraterrestrial beings may need to revisit some fundamental assumptions about the nature of life itself --

Virgin Orbit is planning a key test of its LauncherOne vehicle as soon as next week, a final step before the vehicle's first launch later this summer. SpaceNews.com

Today's science activities aboard the International Space Station are looking to improve cancer therapies and benefit cement processing on Earth. Meanwhile, two astronauts are practicing to capture the SpaceX Dragon carg...

Alan Bean was the only artist to travel to the moon. While other astronauts brought back lunar rocks and soil, he brought back a visual interpretation.

Get ready for Asteroid Day 2018 and find out what is a near-Earth asteroid and why we should care about them

Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory. To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out th...

Scientists now think we may be able to detect signs of life on planets beyond our solar system in the next few decades, but to do so new tools and techniques will be required. Researchers from around the world just produ...

This is a major advance on the way to achieving fusion energy.

Space: It's cold, dark -- and apparently full of grease.

Satellite feet operator ABS says it has more orbital slots than it can use and is willing to sell the extras to other satellite operators. SpaceNews.com

If and when humans discover extraterrestrial intelligence, should we expect to find it in the form of biological brains or artificially intelligent robots?

Drop a marble and a cannon ball off the Leaning Tower of Pisa at the same time and they will hit the ground at the same time. That fact is explained by Albert Einstein's theory of gravity--general relativity--which predi...

A trio of researchers with ETH Zurich and the University of Chicago has found evidence that suggests narrow channel networks seen on the surface of Mars are due to heavy rainfall runoff. In their paper published on the o...

"I've never seen anything like this before in the local universe," said astrophysicist Stephen Smartt, part of the ATLAS team at the Keck Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Astronomers with More than a dozen telescopes fr...