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As NASA prepares for the ambitious goal of landing a person on the moon within five years, a conference from the USRA discussed how the past will inform future lunar plans.

Kitay: Actions in space "will directly affect the outcome of future conflicts or crises." SpaceNews.com

Russia may soon decommission its most historic launch site, from which the world's first satellite, Sputnik, was lofted into space.

If anything goes wrong when a crew of astronauts launches into space, their spacecraft always has a built-in abort system to help them return to Earth safely. But not all abort systems work the same way.

The Air Force 45th Space Wing is gearing up for three high-profile space launches at Cape Canaveral over the coming months. SpaceNews.com

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On Mars, just as on Earth, gravity can send material tumbling down steep slopes -- and the results can be stunningly pretty, as shown in this photograph NASA released today.

When ‘Oumuamua was first detected on October 19th, 2017, astronomers were understandably confused about the nature of this strange object. Initially thought to be an interstellar comet, it was then designated as an int...

Celebrate 29 years of the Hubble Space Telescope with this gallery of our favorite views from the iconic observatory.

With work underway to return astronauts to space from U.S. soil, you can now piece together one of NASA's new commercial crew spacecraft using a toy kit from Poland.

The Justice Department has reached a settlement with the company that provided faulty components that led to the failure of back-to-back Taurus launches for NASA. SpaceNews.com

The reason for the Atlas 5 upper stage break up, believed to have occurred between March 23 and March 25, is not yet known. SpaceNews.com

The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute is working to ensure that the first long-term settlement on other planetary bodies are safe from hazards such as a meteoroid colliding with the moon or violent sandstorms...

What's the matter with antimatter?

The Expedition 59 crew spent the majority of Tuesday conducting space experiments and setting up research hardware....

Virgin Galactic's chief pilot believes the company will be able to go through the remainder of its SpaceShipTwo test program fairly quickly once test flights of the suborbital spaceplane resume.

NASA′s InSight lander hears ripples of seismic energy rippling through Mars --

No state has destroyed another state's satellite. This extraordinary restraint is worth preserving and expanding.

Higher, faster, further, catching up on culture.

The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science. Fundamentally important ...

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is building a semi-autonomous trash collector for space, which they have fittingly named OSCaR. (You can see OSCaR here) The acronym stands for "Obsolete Spacec...

The ominous warning - "winter is coming", popularised by fantasy series Game of Thrones - applies equally well to Pluto.