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Scientists used an appearance by the NASA administrator at a conference April 29 to press him to fund additional missions that support the agency's work in discovering and characterizing near Earth objects. SpaceNews.com

Blue Origin is apparently set to make a big announcement next week, and the only clue we have to go on is a photo of famed Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance.

NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) investigators have determined the technical root cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and 2011, respectively: f...

Buckle your seat belts, Earthlings -- the late 2020s will offer an incredible spree of close asteroid flybys, and none will pose a threat to life on Earth.

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A major power shortage at the International Space Station has delayed this week's SpaceX supply run.

For people interested in all things beyond Earth, the words methane and Titan go hand in hand. After all, Titan is the only other world in our Solar System where liquid flows over the surface. While trying to understand ...

A friendly debate about Pluto's planethood yesterday (April 29) ended in an informal vote that came down in favor of reinstating the dwarf planet's status.

The field relies on a conceptual framework that has trouble accounting for new observations --

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has now been circling Earth for more than 600 days on its latest mystery mission.

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Undercover agents mimic the behaviour of molecules

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Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Spanish astronomers now think the space rock collided with the Moon at 61,000 kilometres ...

Capt. Gabriel Lorca and Cmdr. Ellen Landry are coming to the game "Star Trek Online."

NASA engineers are troubleshooting a power glitch on the International Space Station that might affect plans for a SpaceX cargo delivery mission this week.

Ever seen a rocket launch before? Catching one is easier than you might think. You just need to be looking in the right direction at the right time, and have clear skies. If you happen to be watching from the U.S. south ...

After two years of intensive work, led by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Space Science Division, the design for a conceptual space-based observatory is headed to the National Academies of Science, Engineering...

Based on the results from a set of telescopes, astronomers detected X-ray variability of the source AX J1949.8+2534 and confirmed that the object is a supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT). The finding is reported in a ...

One of the great things about science is that, when you start to observe a new object in space, you can never be sure quite what you'll find.

Venus is known for its clouds of sulfuric acid covering the entire planet and its super-fast winds moving at hundreds of kilometers per hour, but our neighboring planet's thick clouds make it difficult for scientists to ...

Small stellar systems like dwarf galaxies are thought to be the main building blocks of the Milky Way. However, it is unclear how many and what kind of stars in our galaxy originated from satellite dwarf galaxies.

Some day in the future, an asteroid might be detected heading toward our home planet. What on Earth happens next? Our new infographic highlights the international response process