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Col. Bongiovi, director of SMC's Launch Enterprise Directorate, says the NSSL program will seek to leverage the U.S. commercial launch industry.

In the course of looking for possible signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI), scientists have had to do some really outside-of-the-box thinking. Since it is a foregone conclusion that many ETIs would be older and ...

After more than 10 years of hard work, NASA has reached another milestone. We’re accustomed to NASA reaching milestones, but this one’s a little different. This one’s all about a type of photography that captures i...

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Cross your eyes and break out the 3-D glasses! NASA's New Horizons team has created new stereo views of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule - the target of the New Horizons spacecraft's historic New Year's 2019...

Scientists looking for signs of life beyond our solar system face major challenges, one of which is that there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone to consider. To narrow the search, they must figure out...

On the evening of March 6, 2019, the Moon started to transit the Sun, then doubled back and retraced its steps in the other direction--at least, that's what it looked like from the perspective of NASA's Solar Dynamics Ob...

Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are set to join the crew aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, March 14.

SpaceX's historic first Crew Dragon test flight returns to Earth early Friday (March 8), and lucky U.S. East Coasters may be able to see it in action.

Israel’s space program doesn’t get a lot of headlines. Israel itself is in the news a lot, but usually for other reasons. But they do have a space program, and right now they have a lander, called Beresheet, on the w...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

SpaceX's first Crew Dragon capsule to fly to the International Space Station is all packed up and ready to return to Earth, after astronauts on board the orbiting lab closed the hatch today (March 7).

We talk to the visual-effects team that gave us one of the most sensational space battles in modern TV sci-fi.

ESA's Business Applications programme turns space data into benefits on Earth

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is simple -- click on the boulders you see in a detailed image of a distant space rock.

Perhaps it's counterintuitive that astronauts, the humans being sent hundreds of miles away from any rocks, should care about geology.

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Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of potential shallow water...

If all goes to plan, a fiery Dragon will light up the sky over the Atlantic before hopefully cooling off with a watery splashdown on March 8. The SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule is of enormous significance for spaceflight as it ...

A new study published February 28 on arXiv.org suggests that a millisecond pulsar known as PSR J0740+6620 has a stellar companion. The research provides evidence indicating that this object is most likely accompanied by ...

The Canadian government will also try to cut the regulatory red tape the space industry has complained has hindered projects from moving forward. SpaceNews.com