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Media accreditation is open for the launch of Northrop Grumman's next delivery of NASA science investigations, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station on April 17.

Japan's space agency completed a complicated touchdown maneuver at a distant space rock last month, and it has now released an incredible video from the spacecraft's point of view.

NASA’s InSight lander is busy deploying its Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) into the Martian soil and has encountered some resistance. The German Aerospace Center (DLR), who designed and built the HP3 a...

SpaceShipOne launched the era of private spaceflight.

An international team of astronomers, led by University of Hawai i graduate student Ashley Chontos, announced the confirmation of the first exoplanet candidate identified by NASA's Kepler Mission. The result was presente...

The Cigar Galaxy (also known as M82) is famous for its extraordinary speed in making new stars, with stars being born 10 times faster than in the Milky Way. Now, data from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astro...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

An Israeli spacecraft on its maiden mission to the moon has sent its first selfie back to Earth, mission chiefs said on Tuesday.

Israel's first lunar lander has notched another important milestone -- its first in-space selfie.

The rock band OK Go and their partners are inviting students ages 11-18 to brainstorm their most creative ideas to send into space.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Blue Origin's founder explains how New Shepard and New Glenn enable humanity's future in the solar system. SpaceNews.com

Everything is going well for China's Chang'e 4 farside moon mission, according to Chinese media reports.

Israel's first lunar lander remains on course for the moon despite a recent glitch, mission team members said.

Over short time scales, the solar system is a beautifully predictable dance, but over long enough periods, it's not such an orderly place.

The International Space Station orbits Earth, 400 km above our heads, running scientific experiments that cannot be done anywhere else.

ESA is planning Earth's first dedicated space weather observatory to warn of potentially harmful turbulence in our parent star. Like a referee at a sports game, the Lagrange spacecraft will be able to observe both the Su...

The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, SMILE, has been given the green light for implementation by ESA's Science Programme Committee. The announcement clears the way for full development of this new missi...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: aurora australis seen from space

If you were transported to the Moon this very instant, you would surely and rapidly die. That's because there's no atmosphere, the surface temperature varies from a roasting 130 degrees Celsius (266 F) to a bone-chilling...

An international team of astronomers has observed a deep, day-long asymmetric occultation in a recently detected low-mass star known as EPIC 204376071. In a research paper published February 21 on arXiv.org, the scientis...

Small stones have impeded progress on landmark efforts to study the Red Planet’s subsurface activity --