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NASA’s New Horizons is poised to arrive at the most distant object ever seen up close—and there could be more to come --

The one company that failed to win a NASA contract last month for commercial lunar payload delivery services says it will try again in the future as it continues development of its lunar lander. SpaceNews.com

The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world.

Using MAGIC telescopes and NASA's Fermi spacecraft, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new source of very high energy gamma-ray emission around the supernova remnant (SNR) G24.7+0.6. The detection of t...

After years of delays, construction mishaps and outrageous corruption scandals, Russia's new premier space launch facility -- the Vostochny Cosmodrome -- saw the first successful flight of commercial payloads aboard a So...

In 2018, exoplanet scientists feasted on data from a nearby ice ball, the first exoplanet baby picture, a majority-metal blob the size of Earth and the home planet of a "Star Trek" fan favorite -- not to mention the poss...

When NASA revealed the names of nine companies eligible for contracts to deliver payloads to the moon on robotic landers, it set off a flurry of activity among firms with related technology. SpaceNews.com

For the precocious hunter of off-Earth life, the Drake equation is the ever-ready, go-to toolkit for estimating just how (not) lonely humans are in the Milky Way galaxy. But it's not useful.

Science and art each teach us to see the world in a different way -- and Candice Hansen is living in both those worlds simultaneously, thanks to her role leading JunoCam.

Three and a half years after giving humanity its first close-up view of Pluto, and almost 13 years after launching from Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft will explore another new frontier: a reddish hunk of rock and ice...

Navy aircraft carrier strike groups will get the new technology in 2022, about 18 months sooner than previously planned. SpaceNews.com