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The ESA recently released stunning photos of a Martian storm front, which were acquired by the Mars Express orbiter in April of 2018. The post This Stunning Photo Shows the Martian Dust Storm as it was Just Getting Going...

Snoopy, the comic strip dog created by Charles Schulz, debuted his new orange spacesuit at San Diego Comic-Con.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

As concerns grow about orbital debris and the need for space traffic management, cubesats without propulsion have no means to maneuver to avoid collisions or deorbit at the end of their operational lives. SpaceNews.com

NASA has awarded a contract to COLSA Corporation of Huntsville, Alabama, to provide facility operations support services to the National Center for Critical Information Processing and Storage (NCCIPS).

The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review released in February raised alarms about the state of the NC3 system. SpaceNews.com

While the Moon is uninhabitable today, there could have been life on its surface in the distant past.

New maps suggest evidence of alien life in the icy moon’s buried ocean could be surprisingly easy to find --

Auroras appear on Earth as ghostly displays of colorful light in the night sky, usually near the poles. Our rocky neighbor Mars has auroras too, and NASA's MAVEN spacecraft just found a new type of Martian aurora that oc...

The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet's magnetic equator.

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It's not a scene out of "Independence Day" -- it's an Orion capsule on display at the White House.

Scientists at the University of Michigan have deduced that the Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, shredded and cannibalized a massive galaxy two billion years ago.

If signs of life exist on Jupiter's icy moon Europa, they might not be as hard to find as scientists had thought, a new study reports.

Our Milky Way had a pretty sizable sibling long ago -- until neighboring Andromeda tore the unfortunate galaxy apart, a new study suggests.

"Dreams are maps" --The Fox network has released an initial trailer that suggests Cosmos --Possible Worlds will follow the basic formula of the new series' first season with a focus on extraterrestrial exploration and th...

Inter-satellite links, a technology that has given some of LeoSat's would-be investors pause, were actually what convinced Hispasat to invest in the low-Earth-orbit constellation startup last week, according to Hispasat'...

A team with members from institutions across the U.S. has used an existing solar model to predict the ability of exoplanets to withstand localized stellar wind. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Aca...

Mars Odyssey is the longest-serving spacecraft to visit Mars.

These six infrared images of Saturn's moon Titan represent some of the clearest, most seamless-looking global views of the icy moon's surface produced so far. The views were created using 13 years of data acquired by the...

The joint mission's goal is to find out if life ever existed on Mars.

"Monumental" --Searching for Signs of Life on Saturn's Titan: An Eerie, Earth-like World "Something Special Will Happen" --NASA's Parker Solar Probe Will Dive into the Hellish Solar Corona to Explore its Mysteries Strang...