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Martian sand dunes are blowing in the wind -- but slowly, and based on factors that don't affect sand movement here on Earth.

With congressional funding and industry support, nuclear thermal propulsion technology is making progress for potential use on future NASA deep space missions.

An astronaut-led crew will go underwater to get ready for human moon missions. The 10-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 23 expedition is scheduled to begin June 10 and will test technologies NASA wi...

Citing a need for closer collaboration amid growing global competition, leaders from the 28-member European Union and the 22-member European Space Agency convened on Tuesday their first joint space council session since ...

Avanti, in a May 28 filing with the London Stock Exchange, said the credit facility is for a two-year period through which it can take loans with an annual interest rate of 12.5 percent. The company said it plans to use ...

Raytheon says GAO never discussed its findings on the OCX program with the company. The watchdog agency disagrees. SpaceNews.com

A strange feature on the surface of Mars has kept scientists guessing about its origin. It’s a surface deposit of a mineral which is more common in the interiors of planets. A new study shows that this interior mineral...

Although NASA's new goal of landing humans on the moon in five years may sound aggressive, most of the hardware needed to carry out that mission is already, or soon will be, under development. SpaceNews.com

Federally Funded Research and Development Centers have re-entered the space policy conversation once again, this time in connection to the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

Now that India has demonstrated an anti-satellite weapon, it needs to leapfrog from a Defence Space Agency to an Indian Space Force. SpaceNews.com

A new photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the spectacular consequences when two galaxies collide.

Stratolaunch is the builder of the world's first megaplane.

Men and women have been working together in space for decades, but a growing body of research shows that there are important sex-based differences in how people react to spaceflight.

Physics researchers and literature researchers have joined together to better understand the rare natural phenomenon of white and red auroras fanning across the night sky in Japan. Armed with drawings and descriptions da...

Researchers scouring the desert for space rocks found the oldest collection of meteorites on Earth.

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Cooking martian soil in the search for life.

The first study of ultra-small bacteria living in the extreme environment of Ethiopia's Dallol hot springs shows that life can thrive in conditions similar to those thought to have been found on the young planet Mars. An...

To discover the secrets of exploding stars or black holes, scientists have been focusing on the gamma rays they emit. However, gamma rays don't pass through the Earth's atmosphere, making them difficult to study. To find...

Our solar system may contain alien comets that were stolen from another star flying past 4.5 billion years ago. Far away in a distant cluster of young stars, a similar close encounter might have also sent the inter-stell...

Since the second Gaia data release on the 25th April 2018, astrophysicists have had at their disposal an unprecedented wealth of information not only on distances and motions of stars in the galaxy, but also on many othe...

One of the big questions in solar physics is why the sun's activity follows a regular cycle of 11 years. Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), an independent German research institute, now pre...

In a study appearing today in the Astrophysical Journal, an INAF-lead team of researchers explored whether the anomalous features in the dust and gas distributions of HD 163296's disk revealed by ALMA's observations coul...