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(Cornell University) NASA's new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to ferret out habitable exoplanets, but with hundreds of thousands of sunlike and smaller stars in its camera views, which of those...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said he strongly opposes the Trump's administration's proposal to establish a Space Force. SpaceNews.com

The first all-female spacewalk in history won't be happening this week after all due to a last-minute crew swap, NASA announced today (March 25).

The U.S. Commerce Department on March 26 sent a report to the White House declaring sufficient access to radio frequency spectrum critical for a healthy domestic space industry, but avoided weighing in on contested spect...

The waning moon will make a close approach to Jupiter in the night sky tonight (March 26), and you can see the giant gas planet shining close to Earth's natural satellite early tomorrow morning.

NASA's plans for the first all-female spacewalk by space station astronauts this week had all the makings of a historic moment.

Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2024, a dramatic acceleration of the agency's human space exploration plans but a directive accompanied by few technical or fiscal de...

Welcome to the 604th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. We have a fantastic roundup today so now, on...

No one at present can say with certainty - from a legal perspective - where the "Earth" ends and where "outer space" begins. SpaceNews.com

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on NASA to return American astronauts to the moon by 2024 -- just five years from now -- during the National Space Council meeting on Tuesday (March 26).

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Google, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two more hidden planets in the Kepler space telescope archive. The technique shows promise f...

Vice President Mike Pence announced Tuesday that the United States aims to send astronauts back to the Moon in five years, with a woman first in line to set foot on it again.

Carl Sagan Institute: ITHACA, N.Y. - NASA's new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to ferret out habitable exoplanets, but with hundreds of thousands of sunlike and smaller stars in its camera views...

Raymond today is the nation's top space commander, overseeing space forces under the Air Force and joint forces under U.S. Strategic Command. SpaceNews.com

Swarm Technologies' self-stated mission is to bring internet access to the whole world, but it's best known at this point for defying the U.S. Federal Communications Commission by launching four tiny SpaceBee satellites ...

For more than 20 years, Lunar Module 9 has been in a state of constant flight. Now, it has finally come down for a landing -- and for a closer view by the public.

A flat-Earthers conference promises a cruise to Antarctica.

Put yourself at the center of an ever-changing Milky Way with this new immersive video of the galaxy's core.

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: new bedrest study tests impact of artificial gravity

A team of scientists has proposed a powerful new test for inflation, the theory that the universe dramatically expanded in size in a fleeting fraction of a second right after the Big Bang. Their goal is to give insight i...

NASA's new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to ferret out habitable exoplanets, but with hundreds of thousands of sunlike and smaller stars in its camera views, which of those stars could host pla...

"How about that package out of your sleeve? Get that?" is certainly not the most famous phrase uttered by a human while on the Moon. And the items nestled in a small packet that astronaut Buzz Aldrin had stowed in the po...