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As one group of engineers continues to diagnose a gyro problem that has sidelined the Hubble Space Telescope, another is dealing with a problem that has put operations of another large space observatory on hold. SpaceNew...

The organization that helped NASA's Apollo spacecraft land on the moon a half-century ago is now working with an industry team that includes a Japanese lunar lander company to propose a commercial return to the lunar sur...

A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics addresses the possibility of panspermia on a galactic (and intergalactic) scale The post The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star appeared f...

Virgin Galactic's chief executive says the company is approaching the "next phase" of the flight test program for the company's SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle as the company's founder predicts the company reaching space...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shouldn't be sidelined for too much longer. Mission team members are working to get a balky gyroscope online, but Hubble can operate without it if needed, agency officials said.

NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,600 alien planets to date, emerged from yet another slumber Thursday (Oct. 11).

When skywatchers acquire their first telescope, I suspect there are two objects at the top of their observing list: the moon and the ringed planet Saturn.

The European MASCOT lander bounced down to the rocky surface of an asteroid last week.

When director Rory Kennedy set out to make "Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow," a documentary film about the agency's first 60 years of space exploration, she did not expect that her focus would turn back towa...

Luck is not a plan. Yet up to now Congressional appropriators and senior NASA officials are mostly relying on luck to keep us safe from catastrophic fatalities resulting from the surprise impact of an unseen asteroid. Sp...