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The White House and NASA announced May 13 that they will seek an additional $1.6 billion in funding for the agency in fiscal year 2020, a "down payment" on efforts to achieve a human lunar landing by 2024. SpaceNews.com

Science popularizer Bill Nye told viewers of a popular late-night show that Earth is "on [expletive] fire" while lighting a globe with a blowtorch.

Managing pilotless aircraft and solar panels that could help humans live on the Moon and Mars are among the technologies NASA is looking to develop with small business awards totaling $106 million.

Disney Chairman Bob Iger has confirmed that the first of the recently announced post-"Skywalker Saga" Star Wars films will be created by "Game of Thrones" showrunners Dan Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

Blue Origin is going to the Moon. In an hour-long presentation in Washington DC on May 9th, Jeff Bezos spelled out his plans for reaching the Moon, confirming what many guessed he was hinting at in a tweet from the previ...

NASA may actually have a better chance of pulling off its next moon shot now that the timeline has been moved up four years, agency officials say.

NASA's chief says the Trump administration's proposed $1.6 billion budget boost is a "good start" for putting astronauts back on the moon.

An experiment recently conducted by the QUPLAS collaboration confirmed the dual, particle-wave nature of antimatter. The post Antimatter Behaves Exactly the Same as Regular Matter in Double Slit Experiments appeared firs...

It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have already detected a time warp.

House appropriators would block funding for the Space Development Agency pending a report on SDA's future projects and roles. SpaceNews.com

New images of one of Mars' moons show a sweet surprise: It looks like candy. The moon, Phobos, shines like a rainbow-colored jawbreaker in new images from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

In this dreamy moonlit scene, the Super Snow Moon rises over the Pena Palace (Palácio da Pena), a 19th-century, Romanticist hilltop castle overlooking the town of Sintra, Portugal.

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy:

ESA's satellites observing Earth's cryosphere provide key information to understand and respond to global thawing

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: first ever image of a terrestrial gamma-ray flash

We've compiled all our Satellite 2019 coverage into to a special digital edition brought to you with support from Ball Aerospace. SpaceNews.com

Do small launcher companies need megaconstellation business to survive? How should they approach a market that sometimes feels like its changing faster than the rockets themselves? Five launch companies discussed these t...

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft is ready to embark on a challenging mission to demonstrate the power of sunlight for propulsion.

Exactly 30 years after the first historical observation of Crab nebula at TeV energies, which opened the era of TeV astronomy with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), another advancement in IACT technolog...

Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research from the University of Warwick has found. The new research is publis...

The length and precision with which climate scientists can track the salinity, or saltiness, of the oceans is set to improve dramatically according to researchers working as part of ESA's Climate Change Initiative.

By analyzing data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite, astronomers have detected millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations from a low-mass neutron star X-ray binary designated EXO 0748'676. The finding ...