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Claudius Gros, the founder of Project Genesis, makes the case that when it comes to extrasolar planets, the rules of planetary protection need not apply. The post Seeding the Milky Way with Life Using Genesis Missions ap...

The Cassini mission to Saturn ended in September 2017, but the data it gathered during its 13 year mission is still yielding scientific results. On the heels of a newly-released global image of Saturn’s moon Titan come...

With the maiden flight of the Ariane 6 now 18 months away (in July 2020), Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël said the company had anticipated signing a manufacturing contract with ArianeGroup in the second part of last ye...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Gangotri, one of the largest glaciers in the Himalayas and one of the main sources of water for the Ganges River....

Deception, drama, doomed relationships -- it's all in the latest episode of "The Orville."

A new appropriations bill the House plans to vote on next week would provide $21.5 billion for NASA in 2019 but warns that any further problems with the James Webb Space Telescope could lead to its cancellation. SpaceNew...

Saturn's distinctive rings were observed in unprecedented detail by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and scientists have now used those observations to probe the interior of the giant planet and obtain the first precise determ...

How to watch and take pictures of Monday's total lunar eclipse

It was bound to happen.

The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, and its stars are arguably its most momentous handiwork. Astronomers studying the intricacies of star formation across cosmic time are trying to understand whether stars and ...

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10 things you might not know about the Moon

Nobel laureate George Smoot claims LIGO has observed amplified signals of black hole mergers from the very distant universe, but LIGO scientists disagree --

New web page features educational resources and other materials focused on the Moon to educate and inspire.

You can re-enact the climactic scene of 1968's "Planet of the Apes" with Charlton Heston's astronaut character screaming on the beach next to the Statue of Liberty, thanks to a new Lego set based on "The Lego Movie 2: Th...

A full-dome fisheye view shows 180 degrees of the night sky over the United Kingdom's Peak District on a crystal-clear winter night.

Check out these awesome new Lego sets that have been released for "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part."

SpaceX launched its eighth and final batch of Iridium Next communications satellites into orbit on Jan. 11, 2019. See photos of the historic mission here!

This summer, the most powerful solar telescope ever built should make its first observations of our sun -- but the excitement isn't just for scientists, the telescope team believes.

On January 20, stargazers across the Americas will have stunning views of a historic celestial event --

The ghostly green glow at the very top of this image reveals the presence of 46P Wirtanen - a relatively small comet with an estimated diameter of 1.2 kilometers. Had the path of history taken a different course, we woul...

It looks like we'll have a fictional Space Force before the real one gets off the ground.