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With the recent Martian dust storm clearing, NASA managed to spot the Opportunity rover on the surface, though communications have yet to resume. The post NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears. Still No Word Fr...

China's plan to launch and construct a space station could be hit by a test flight delay of the launcher designed to send the modules into orbit. SpaceNews.com

Measuring the vast quantities of cosmic dust in interstellar space may be a key to unlocking various mysteries of the cosmos, including how the grains form and whether new types of galaxy are obscured by the particle clo...

United Launch Alliance announced Sept. 27 that it has selected Blue Origin to provide the main engine for its next-generation Vulcan launch vehicle, a decision long expected by the industry. SpaceNews.com

NASA has awarded a contract to Brevard Achievement Center, Inc., of Rockledge, Florida, for custodial services at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks for the continued development and operation of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for NASA's Earth Observing S...

Based on Cassini data, an international team of scientists found evidence of dust storms on Titan, yet another thing it has in common with Earth. The post Titan First-Ever Detected Dust Storms Proves the Moon to be More ...

Rogers: All the president said is "I want a separate but equal space force. It could be what we proposed: a separate service within the Department of the Air Force." SpaceNews.com

NASA has awarded a contract to the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) for development of a reflected solar spectrometer for the agency's Climate Absolute Radiance and Ref...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Former OneWeb executive Brian Holz, has joined Akash Systems as chief architect to help the San Francisco startup create communications systems for small satellites. SpaceNews.com

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and late-night television host Stephen Colbert took one of NASA's Mars rovers out for a joyride in the streets of Manhattan last week, and you can watch their out-of-this-world adventur...

Hurry before they're gone! Theaters across the country are offering free screenings of "First Man" on Oct. 1.

Three of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including two NASA astronauts, are scheduled to return to Earth on Thursday, Oct. 4.

As NASA shows growing interest in commercial activities, from space station research to merchandise, one senator wants the agency to financially benefit from them. SpaceNews.com

As the Radar Altimetry Symposium continues in the Azores, Angelica Tarpanelli joins ESA web TV to explain how river discharge affects our oceans and how this is measured

On 21 September 2018, 280 million km from Earth, a roughly 1.5 square-metre cube descended towards a primitive space rock. After years of planning and 4 years in flight, this tiny spacecraft captured this 'shadow selfie'...

Russian astronomers have conducted a study of large-scale morphology and kinematics of the ionized gas in the galaxy Markarian 6. The research, in addition to mapping the ionized gas in the stellar disc, has identified a...

Researchers have found white dwarf stars with masses close to the maximum stable mass (called the Chandrasekhar mass) are likely to produce large amounts of manganese, iron, and nickel after they orbit another star and e...

Since the beginning of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe. As NASA has explored our solar system and beyond, it has developed increasingly sophisticated tools to address this fundame...

All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms on Earth would not be able to reproduce and would simply not exist.