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A bipartisan amendment to strike Smith's space launch provisions is expected to be offered by Colorado lawmakers Lamborn and Crow. SpaceNews.com

Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of galaxy classification, in a new study using data from the longstanding Galaxy Zoo project....

Designed to explore a metal asteroid that could be the heart of a planet, the Psyche mission is readying for a 2022 launch....

Kennedy says SDA will work with all the services. "Nobody said I have to build it all." SpaceNews.com

New research by a team of UK scientists has located the site of the massive impact that took place in Scotland 1.2 billion years ago. The post 1.2 billion years ago, a 1-km asteroid smashed into Scotland appeared first o...

Tropical storm and space weather forecasts will improve with the help of observations from radio occultation satellites scheduled for launch June 24 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati...

Four Expedition 59 astronauts underwent periodic health checkups and regularly scheduled eye scans today. The International Space Station residents also had time set aside for space gardening, furnace work, crew ship pac...

NASA plans to adjust operations of an airborne astronomical observatory in order to increase its scientific productivity. SpaceNews.com

Montblanc is capping its trademark "snow peak" with the much higher perch of outer space.

Bigelow Space Operations plans to take advantage of the increased commercialization of the International Space Station.

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The street outside NASA headquarters in Washington was renamed "Hidden Figures Way" today (June 12) in honor of the women who worked as "human computers" at the agency in the 1960s.

At the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in St. Louis, Missouri, Allison Kirkpatrick, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, will announce her discovery of "cold quasa...

A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Using a visible light spectral analysis, planetary scientists at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech mana...

Over the past four years, an instrument attached to a telescope in the Chilean Andes--known as the Gemini Planet Imager--has set its gaze on 531 stars in search of new planets. The team, led by Stanford University, is no...

Astronomer Vera Rubin -- best known for her pioneering research about dark matter -- will lend her name to a new telescope if a bipartisan bill becomes law.

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The huge ocean sloshing beneath the ice shell of the Jupiter moon Europa may be more similar to the seas of Earth than scientists had thought.

Much like Earth’s seas, the subsurface ocean of this icy moon of Jupiter contains sodium chloride, the main ingredient of table salt --

Red Eléctrica said the credit line, formalized June 12, is available for five years with the possibility of extension to seven years. SpaceNews.com

Talk about nosebleed seats. A U.S. astronaut had the perfect view of the French stadium hosting the FIFA Women's World Cup.

Apollo 11 was the first mission to land people on the lunar surface. But Apollo relied on a lot of predecessor missions to lay the groundwork for the successful mission to the Moon. One of them was Apollo 10, the fourth ...