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A series of new CubeSats now are in space, conducting a variety of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations, following launch Sunday of Rocket Lab's first mission for NASA under a Venture Class Launch Serv...

A new survey by an ALMA collaboration has resulted in stunning images of 20 nearby protoplanetary disks, which shows the process of planet formation as it happens. The post Here are 20 Protoplanetary Disks, With Newly Fo...

Bettina Inclán has been named by Administrator Jim Bridenstine to be NASA's Associate Administrator for Communications.

NASA welcomed a new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, deputy administrator, Jim Morhard, and chief financial officer, Jeff DeWit, in 2018. Their focus is on firmly establishing the groundwork to send Americans back to the ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Blue Origin plans to conduct the next test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Dec. 18 as the company moves closer to flying people into space. SpaceNews.com

An Israeli nonprofit on Monday said it has pushed back the launch of what it hopes will be the first private spacecraft to land on the moon until February.

Today - Molecular Muscle: Crewmembers removed the Molecular Muscle samples from the Kubik-5 facility and inserted the samples into the MELFI-3 (Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS)....

If you were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the bright green December visitor known as Comet 46P/Wirtanen this weekend as it made its closest approach, you are just a tiny bit luckier than the Rosetta spacecraft.

A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In their search for life in solar systems near and far, researchers have often accepted the presence of oxygen in a planet's atmosphere as the surest sign that life may be present there. A new Johns Hopkins study, howeve...

Swedish startup Ovzon, which in October bought a Falcon Heavy launch from SpaceX, has now purchased a satellite for that mission from Maxar Technologies' Space Systems Loral division. SpaceNews.com

Humankind's exploration of space has for years pondered one central question: Is there another world somewhere in the universe where human beings could survive?

On Dec. 21, 1968, James Lovell and two fellow pilots piled into a tiny capsule and set off into the unknown, becoming the first humans to fly around the moon.

The NASA Advisory Council has recommended that NASA review its existing planetary protection guidelines to balance the needs of science and exploration, an effort that could set the stage for a similar revision at the in...

Gas and dust disks around young stars reveal features that suggest planets are off to an early start.

NASA's new Mars lander isn't quite ready to probe the Red Planet's interior yet, but it's starting to get the lay of the land on the surface -- and in the atmosphere.

New observations of a stellar explosion have revealed a surprise that could point to the trigger behind these violent, yet mysterious, eruptions --

The United States Mint has revealed the design for its 2019 coin celebrating the roles of Native Americans in NASA history.

As the Commerce Department works on plans to take over civilian space traffic management responsibilities, the U.S. Air Force is making more data available on the positions of military satellites. SpaceNews.com

Blue Origin plans to conduct the next test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Dec. 18 as the company moves closer to flying people into space.