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The distant object that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Jan. 1 is now taking shape as a body -- or bodies -- unlike any visited by a spacecraft to date. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Juno mission recently acquired some stunning photographs of Io before it plunged into Jupiter's shadow. The post Juno Saw One of Io’s Volcanoes Erupting During its Recent Flyby appeared first on Universe Today.

Still unresolved is one of Shanahan's top priorities in the space reorganization, which is to establish a Space Development Agency SpaceNews.com

Veteran astronauts James Buchli and Janet Kavandi have been selected for induction into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.

It’s always easier to show someone a picture of something rather than to use 1,000 words to explain it. The people at NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) know this, and they’re experts. Every year they rel...

As the New Horizons mission approached Ultima Thule, Rowan University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara put our close-up study of the Kuiper Belt object into a deep-time perspective. --

Close-up images from NASA’s New Horizons probe show the space rock has two distinct lobes --

The milestone marks a turning point for China’s space exploration, and may unlock deep secrets of lunar history --

Scientists have found evidence that dark matter can be heated up and moved around, as a result of star formation in galaxies. The findings provide the first observational evidence for the effect known as 'dark matter hea...

China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft made the first ever soft-landing on the far side of the moon Jan. 2 in a mission investigating the history of the solar system and paving the way for future exploration.

As 2019 nears, physicists are hard at work on the next generation of dark matter detectors, and on parsing confusing data from detectors that already exist.

China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft made the historic first ever soft-landing on the far side of the moon Wednesday in a mission aims to reveal clues to the history of the solar system and paving the way for future exploration....

Brown dwarfs are cooler than stars but hotter than planets, and despite the name, they're not even very brown.

Bacteria may be able to survive in salty water on Mars, recent experiments on Earth suggest.

In the final hours of the 115th Congress, the Senate confirmed a new director for OSTP but failed to act on a nominee for NOAA. SpaceNews.com

China's Chang'e 4 rover, named Yutu 2, rolled onto the floor of the moon's Von Kármán Crater today (Jan. 3), about 12 hours after the mission pulled off history's first-ever soft touchdown on the lunar far side.

The newest snowman-like image of Ultima Thule (2014 MU69), a pristine object from the dawn of the solar system, is already revealing insights into how planets form.

A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower.

On Jan. 2, 2019, China made history with the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon. See photos from the historic lunar landing and Yutu 2 rover deployment here!

China's robotic Chang'e 4 mission touched down inside the huge South Pole-Aitken basin today (Jan. 2), pulling off the first-ever soft landing on the largely unexplored lunar far side.

Pink Floyd has a lot to answer for when it comes to popular ideas about the moon, but here's how to always keep your lunar sides straight.

China landed Chang'e-4 inside of Von Karman crater on the far side of the Moon 10:26 a.m. BJT Thursday....