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To answer significant questions about planetary systems, such as whether our solar system is a rare phenomenon or if life exists on planets other than Earth, NASA should lead a large direct imaging mission - an advanced ...

A Japanese cargo ship loaded with more than five tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiments is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 10 (7:32 a.m. Sept. 11 in Jap...

The Expedition 56 crew members conducted maintenance work on a variety of advanced science gear today to ensure ongoing space research aboard the International Space Station....

For the first time, a powerful "wind" of molecules has been detected in a galaxy located 12 billion light-years away. Probing a time when the universe was less than 10 percent of its current age, University of Texas at A...

Army officials: Space support "critical to success on the battlefield." SpaceNews.com

The mystery behind lunar swirls, one of the solar system's most beautiful optical anomalies, may finally be solved thanks to a joint Rutgers University and University of California Berkeley study.

Technicians from an aerospace and military contractor recently completed construction of the Orion capsule, which is designed to take astronauts back to the moon.

British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell will receive a $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, for her 1967 discovery of the fast-spinning stellar corpses known as pulsars and her scientific lea...

Tantalising new evidence has suggested that there may be a salty lake below a glacier on Mars. While brine at freezing temperatures does not sound like the most hospitable of environments, it is difficult to resist ponde...

The planet Mercury, the closet planet to our Sun, is something of an exercise in extremes. It's days last longer than it's years and at any given time, it's sun-facing side is scorching hot while its dark side is freezin...

NASA will launch two brief rocket missions on Friday (Sept. 7): One will test a parachute that could one day be used to help land the next rover on Mars; the other will measure tiny explosions on the sun called nanoflare...

A small hole in a docked Soyuz spacecraft appears to have come from within, perhaps due to drillwork --

To answer significant questions about planetary systems, such as whether our solar system is a rare phenomenon or if life exists on planets other than Earth, NASA should lead a large direct imaging mission - an advanced ...

A new, prestigious report charts an ambitious future for the space agency’s burgeoning search for Earth 2.0 --

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S., including NASA and a pair from Denmark has found that Jupiter's magnetic field is quite different from Earth's. In their paper published in the jour...

French space startup Exotrail has secured $4.1 million in funding to develop its electric thruster technology and software for smallsats. SpaceNews.com

Even on alien worlds covered by water, a new study shows there's a chance for life to survive for a long time -- despite previous research showing that's unlikely.

See photos of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner and the naked-eye comet 46P/Wirtanen, which will swing around the sun in September and December.

Galaxies use powerful winds to save themselves from early deaths. And researchers just spotted one from just a billion years after the Big Bang.

The award recognizes not only the astrophysicist’s transformative discovery, but also her subsequent work to promote equality and diversity in science --

NASA's Kepler spacecraft is back in operation despite a problem with one of its thrusters and low fuel levels that may soon bring the mission to an end. SpaceNews.com

Operations image of the week: a soft Tuscan sunset hints at the presence of the powerful Sun beneath the horizon, a star that can affect satellites in orbit and critical civil infrastructure on Earth