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Leahy is best known in defense technology circles as the "father of the X-45." SpaceNews.com

Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) told Scolese that he supports his nomination. SpaceNews.com

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told Senate appropriators May 1 that while the administration is not yet ready to release a revised budget that accommodates an accelerated human lunar landing program, the costs will n...

The space shuttle Challenger was one of NASA's greatest triumphs and also its darkest tragedy.

Blue Origin will launch its private New Shepard 2.0 spacecraft on a suborbital flight from West Texas on May 2, 2019. Here's how to watch live.

Remember when Orson Welles’ 1938 radio show called “The War of the Worlds” fooled people into thinking that Earth was actually being invaded? That was fun. Now, the ESA (European Space Agency) is tempting fate by l...

Scientists have found traces of water in dust grains from the peanut-shaped asteroid Itokawa, and the discovery could shed light on how Earth got its water.

An internal memo to some workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is warning that employees could be fired for sharing images after a video of SpaceX's Crew Dragon explosion leaked online last week.

Two cosmochemists at Arizona State University have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The samples came from asteroid Itokawa and were collected by the Japanese...

Last week, two little, cube-shaped Astrobee robots arrived at the International Space Station. These robots are designed to help out astronauts and maintain the space station.

The ultrabright gamma-ray flashes are caused by faster-than-light-particles.

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The band OK Go is accepting submissions through May 6 for its Art in Space contest, inviting students to "dream up your own cool experiments to send into suborbital space."

The mysterious feature wraps almost halfway around the giant moon --

This speck of primeval stardust may hold clues about the origin of the solar system.

This final traverse map for NASA's Opportunity rover shows where the rover was located within Perseverance Valley on June 10, 2018, the last date it made contact with its engineering team.

The Smithsonian today made available a new online interactive experience that allows users to explore a three-dimensional (3-D) visualization of the remnants of a supernova, or exploded star.

Technology image of the week: This small fisheye camera atop ESA's technical heart keeps a constant watch out for incoming fireballs

The solar system has a sense of humor: A decade from now, on Friday, April 13, 2029, a large asteroid will streak across the sky -- but it's a cause for excitement, not fear, scientists say.

Spacecraft will return samples to Earth and be open to researchers around the world --

A meteorite smashed into the moon's surface at some 38,000 miles per hour (61,000 kilometers per hour) while our lunar neighbor was in total eclipse in January, a new report reveals.

Black holes gobble up most matter around them, but some of it escapes, spewing nearly-light-speed jets of material.