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And now for the weather on Mars: NASA's newest lander is offering daily reports on the red planet's frigid winter.

The multiyear investment begins with 18-month contract worth few million pounds. SpaceNews.com

Just after midnight (UTC) on February 1, 2019, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) passed nearly overhead the Chang'e 4 landing site....

Say you need to prepare to shoot bullets into an asteroid and suck up the debris kicked up from the blast, then tuck it away for safekeeping. There's no better way than to shoot bullets into a fake asteroid here on Earth...

President Donald Trump is moving closer toward his goal of creating a Space Force, just not as the separate military department he envisioned.

A new experimental type of deep space communications technology is scheduled to be demonstrated on the International Space Station this spring.

The hunt for Earth-like planets, and perhaps extraterrestrial life, just got more precise, thanks to record-setting starlight measurements made possible by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) "astroco...

The Space Force just took a big step from sci-fi-sounding dream toward reality.

Virgin Galactic plans to conduct a fifth test flight Feb. 20 of its suborbital spaceplane SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected two organizations to host the final phase of its four-year series of increasingly complicated technical demonstrations involving small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones.

Why did the hominin cross the plain? We may never know.

Virgin Galactic will take to the skies again tomorrow (Feb. 20), if all goes according to plan.

The constellation Gemini is easy to spot in the northeastern sky.

The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project re-launches this week, with a call to volunteer citizen scientists to join the search for cold worlds near the Sun. With its newly revamped online interface and equipped with twice a...

Forget the Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Gucci knockoffs, what may be the must-have high-end bag replica this summer -- 50 years after the first moon landing -- is a Puntzi.

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: The hunt for micrometeorites in Antarctica

Pioneer partner Open Cosmos are taking mission development to a new dimension, using a virtual reality-like simulation that replicates life in orbit for space technologies.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Dutch scientists have developed an instrument capable of detecting the presence of living plants kilometres away. In future, the technique could be used in the search for extraterrestrial life. The biologist Lucas Patty ...

The International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved the name Statio Tianhe for the landing site where the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 touched down on 3 January this year, in...

An international team of more than 200 astronomers from 18 countries has published the first phase of a major new radio sky survey at unprecedented sensitivity using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope. The survey ...

An international team of scientists led by a researcher from Trinity College Dublin and University of Helsinki announced a major discovery on the very nature of solar storms in the journal Nature Astronomy.