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The Intrepid Museum in New York City kicked off a summer of Apollo events on May 23 by honoring software engineer Margaret Hamilton with the institution's Lifetime Achievement Award.

The realignment does not affect the MUOS program. But any future narrowband satcom acquisition will be handled by the Air Force. SpaceNews.com

Scientists have found a new way that future Mars explorers could potentially generate their own oxygen while visiting the planet.

These two dead stars united and came back to life. And soon, they'll go supernova.

The United States and Japan have agreed to further cooperation in space which could include flying Japanese astronauts to the moon.

More than a trillion new measurements of Earth's height - blanketing everything from glaciers in Greenland, to mangrove forests in Florida, to sea ice surrounding Antarctica - are now available to the public....

A whiff of ammonia in reddish ices on Pluto may be evidence of recent geological activity on the dwarf planet, with liquid water spewing out from Pluto's depths like molten lava would on Earth, a new study finds.

NASA has spent years working on two potential missions to crack the secrets of Jupiter's icy moon Europa -- and both those projects are in trouble, according to an internal investigation.

Mars is a sandy planet and the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has given us tons of beautiful pictures of Martian sand dunes. But Mars’ dunes are much different than dunes here on Earth. Their mo...

One hundred years ago today, in the wake of the first World War, a British astronomer watched a solar eclipse for signs that a German physicist may have been right about warps in the universe.

Here's how scientists verified Albert Einstein's theory of relativity using a total solar eclipse.

Hundreds of previously overlooked Earth-sized planets may await discovery in archives from NASA’s Kepler mission --

Everyday Einstein explores the far reaches of our universe (and beyond) --

Scientists have finally captured some exotic solar activity on camera.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA believes it is still possible to perform the first launch of the Space Launch System before the end of 2020 even if the agency decides to retain some version of a key static-fire test of the rocket's core stage. Spa...

A rover scanning the surface of Mars for evidence of life might want to check for rocks that look like pasta, researchers report in the journal Astrobiology.

When it comes to producing commemorative items for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, Case has a distinctive edge. Behold: The Moon Machete.

It's still unclear if the bold interstellar-flight project Breakthrough Starshot can actually work.

Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography as colleagues explore the deep Pacific Ocean to prepare to search for li...

"Mars 2020 mission spacecraft is undergoing integration," Wang Chi, director of the National Space Science Center (NSSC) in Beijing, told SpaceNews in a rare update on the mission. SpaceNews.com

NASA will join an international crew on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean this summer to prepare for future deep space missions during the 10-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 23 expedition slated to ...