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The Air Force will use "rapid procurement authorities" in this program and is targeting the first next-generation OPIR launch in 2023. SpaceNews.com

An international team of scientists from Russia, Germany, Italy, the U.S. and France has discovered a relatively high concentration of formic acid in a protoplanetary disk. This is the first organic molecule found in pro...

NASA has done a good job implementing the recommendations of its latest planetary science decadal survey despite past budget problems, but needs to improve some programs, a recent report concluded. SpaceNews.com

The Earth's building blocks seem to be built from 'pretty normal' ingredients, according to researchers working with the world's most powerful telescopes. Scientists have measured the compositions of 18 different planeta...

Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk Wednesday to fling tiny satellites into orbit and install an antenna for tracking birds on Earth.

A team from the University of Manchester recently tested their prototype for a spinning heat shield, a lightweight, compact design that could provide cost-effective protection for future space missions. The post Spinning...

ESA is pushing European industry to continue innovating and finding efficiencies even after Vega C's introduction in 2019 and Ariane 6's debut in 2020. SpaceNews.com

China will launch its Chang'e-4 lander and rover mission in December in what will be the first ever attempt at a soft landing on the far side of the moon, authorities said Aug. 15 SpaceNews.com

Exoplanets, planets in other solar systems, can orbit very close to their host stars. When the host star is much hotter than the sun, the exoplanet becomes as hot as a star. The hottest "ultra-hot" planet was discovered ...

"Ask a Spaceman" is live for the first time on Facebook -- and astrophysicist Paul Sutter jumps right into it with a trip to Pluto.

Images of Earth from space are not only beautiful and inspirational, they also provide valuable information for science and commerce that cannot be obtained any other way.

The Expedition 56 crew is getting ready for a spacewalk Wednesday outside the International Space Station's Russian segment....

Water and liquid rubies may exist within the nightside clouds of distant Jupiter-like exoplanets, but they melt in the heat of the planets' scorchingly hot bright sides, according to NASA.

In 1998, scientists discovered that the universe's expansion is accelerating. Physicists don't know how or why the universe is accelerating outward, but they gave the mysterious force behind this phenomenon a name: dark ...

This time-lapse video, obtained June 8, 2018, shows the precise choreography of NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) as it studies pulsars and other X-ray sources from its perch aboard the Internatio...

Two Russian cosmonauts completed a grueling, nearly 8-hour spacewalk today (Aug. 15) in which they conducted a range of science tasks outside the International Space Station.

The globular cluster Omega Centauri hosts an estimated 10 million stars, but they may be too tightly packed to hold on to habitable planets, a new study suggests.

Two Russian cosmonauts will conduct a 6-hour spacewalk today (Aug. 15) to launch small satellites and take care of a couple scientific tasks.

Assimilate this! A beloved "Star Trek" Klingon character inspires real-life science on board the International Space Station.

SpaceX recently invited journalists to its headquarters here in Southern California to get an up-close look at the new Crew Dragon capsule. Here's what Space.com's Mike Wall saw.

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B miniature space plane has winged past 340 days of flight performing secretive duties during the program's fifth flight.

Planet watchers are in for a special show this week, as the bright celestial bodies Venus and Jupiter shine in the sky alongside the crescent moon. You can catch the show tonight (Aug. 15) and tomorrow (Aug. 16) -- as lo...