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China's Chang'e 4 lander and rover made it through their first night on the moon's far side, surviving temperatures that plunged as low as minus 310 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 190 degrees Celsius).

Even space projects backed by billionaires are not immune to Earth-bound realities.

NASA will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, during the agency's ann...

Some very clever people have figured out how to use MSL Curiosity’s navigation sensors to measure the gravity of a Martian mountain. What they’ve found contradicts previous thinking about Aeolis Mons, aka Mt. Sharp. ...

NASA has awarded contracts to three U.S. companies for the investigation, design and implementation of environmental remedial actions at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force...

United Launch Alliance won a NASA contract Jan. 31 to launch a planetary science mission in what the agency said was a competitive procurement. SpaceNews.com

China's many missions to explore the red moon.

The longest government shutdown in American history is over, but the damage it inflicted on the nation's space program may be felt for years to come.

So much happens in the latest episode of "Star Trek: Discovery" that it's hard to keep up.

Suzanne Gillen has been named NASA's associate administrator for the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs.

In December 2018, Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, visited Boston University to discuss funding opportunities with faculty and researchers. While on campus, he also gave a...

Elementary school students from California will have an opportunity to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station next week.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Our week through the lens: 28 January - 1 February 2019

Relentless accumulation threatens satellites and Earth --

What Venus can teach us about planets far beyond our own solar system --

This image, taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys shows a part the globular cluster NGC 6752.

Gravitational measurements may solve the long-standing mystery of how Mount Sharp formed --

A small launch vehicle company is increasing its vehicle's payload capacity and reducing its price as it seeks to find a niche in a crowded market. SpaceNews.com

Boldly going where no Enterprise has gone before.

The space shuttle Columbia broke up on Feb. 1, 2003, killing its seven-member crew. An investigation led to changes in NASA procedures.

A NASA scientist has visited a four-year-old island that satellites watched rise out of the waters -- a rare opportunity to see in person a new island that lasts more than a few months.