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The White House's fiscal year 2020 budget request for NASA proposes to delay work on an upgraded version of the Space Launch System and would transfer some of that vehicle's payloads to other rockets. SpaceNews.com

Two proposals submitted by teams, led by scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have been selected to analyze unopened Apollo samples.

I'll be the first to admit that we don't understand dark matter. We do know for sure that something funny is going on at large scales in the universe ("large" here meaning at least as big as galaxies). In short, the numb...

Look up tonight (March 11) after sunset to see Mars make a close approach to the crescent moon.

President Trump's budget request for fiscal year 2020 funds a Space Force headquarters, a Space Development Agency and U.S. Space Command. SpaceNews.com

The bipartisan caucus will bring a central focus to GPS-related issues. SpaceNews.com

Thales Alenia Space expects to sign a contract in upcoming months to build a communications satellite for Nepal, a Himalayan nation of 30 million with no domestic satellite operator. SpaceNews.com

Two U.S. astronauts will make the first all-female spacewalk in history on March 29, if all goes to plan -- just in time for Women's History Month.

President Donald Trump's NASA budget request for the fiscal year beginning in October 2019 includes funding for a Mars sample return mission that could launch as soon as 2026.

There's a mighty wind a-blowin' out of the Cigar Galaxy, and it could teach astronomers how the first stars formed.

Giuseppe Coccon, a spokesperson for Avio, which manufactures the Vega and upcoming Vega C launchers, said the company chose to prioritize its 2019 Vega launch manifest over the original schedule for Vega C's maiden fligh...

A new featurette for the highly anticipated "Captain Marvel" offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the visual effects were crafted for IMAX screens.

The White House's fiscal year 2020 budget request for NASA proposes to delay work on an upgraded version of the Space Launch System and would transfer some of that vehicle's payloads to other rockets.

The International Space Station partners have endorsed plans to continue the development of the Gateway, an outpost around the Moon that will act as a base to support both robots and astronauts exploring the lunar surfac...

Water molecules are hopping around the moon as the lunar surface warms and cools throughout the day, new research suggests.

Audacy, a space communications startup, announced a memorandum of understanding March 11 with Iceye, a Finnish radar satellite startup, to explore how Audacy's planned inter-satellite data relay network can support Iceye...

Imagine astronauts on Mars, tasked with picking rock samples that will be used by scientists to search for signs of life. But they can only transport a limited number back to Earth. What should they look for? Are some ty...

Spire Global announced March 11 that it has signed a deal to host reconnaissance payloads from a defense contractor on its cubesat constellation. SpaceNews.com

Analyzing data from spectroscopic instruments, astronomers have reported fundamental properties of Barnard 29, an ultraviolet-bright star in globular cluster Messier 13. Results of the analysis, presented in a paper publ...

Astronomers have discovered a binary star system with the closest high-mass young stellar objects ever measured, providing a valuable "laboratory" to test theories on high mass binary star formation.

Get lost in space with this thrilling collection of images from the revered agency --

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