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NASA has so many spacecraft at Mars that it's a challenge to communicate with them all, but technology being launched later this month could eliminate that problem in the future.

The amended language retained two key provisions that help SpaceX and Blue Origin, and removed two others that were opposed by ULA. SpaceNews.com

This year, the NASA's NIAC Program is looking at some really interesting ideas - such as a water-powered, laser-shooting, asteroid-mining spacecraft! The post Robotic asteroid mining spacecraft wins a grant from NASA app...

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission defended the use of spectrum for 5G wireless services while a key senator called for a hearing on potential interference such services could have with space-based wea...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is an intriguing world. It’s the smoothest body in the Solar System, and the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System, though it’s the smallest of the four Galilean moons. Most intriguing of all...

In this image, taken on June 5, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover in the Spacecraft Assembly Facilit...

When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, they light up the cosmos with bright, explosive bursts of light and material known as supernovae. A supernova event is incredibly energetic and intensely luminous--...

NASA has laid out a rough plan for what it now calls the Artemis program, including what needs to be built -- SLS and Orion, a "minimal" Gateway and lunar landers -- and how it can come together in time for a 2024 landin...

When InSight landed on Mars on Nov. 26th, 2018, it deployed a parachute to slow its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. As it approached the surface, it fired its retro rocket to slow it even more, and then gent...

If you're looking for a spectacular sunset, look no further than a new video showing what the end of the day looks like on the International Space Station -- just one of several recent videos and pictures displaying what...

A movie following the journey of Apollo 8, the first trip astronauts took around the moon, shares the feelings the crewmembers experienced as they encountered their destination.

It was always going to be expensive, but NASA's first cost estimate for the agency's push to land humans on the moon by 2024, is finally here -- and it's surprisingly cheap.

Europa, a frozen moon around Jupiter, is believed to be one of the most habitable worlds in the solar system. It was first imaged in detail by the Voyager 1 probe in 1979, revealing a surface almost devoid of large crate...

Our week through the lens: 10 - 14 June 2019

On June 12, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed another significant navigation maneuver--breaking its own world record for the closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will be available to speak with media during the International Paris Air Show on Tuesday, June 18, in Le Bourget, France.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

On 14 June, President Hiroshi Yamakawa of JAXA was welcomed at the 282ndmeeting of the ESA Council - the Agency's governing body - held at ESA's Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. For decades, the European Space Ag...

As NASA's Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year, the spacecraft provided intricate detail on the workings of Saturn's complex rings, new analysis shows.

As astrophysicists prepare to begin their next decadal survey, other scientists and members of Congress endorsed the overall process even as they suggested some changes. SpaceNews.com

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling probe has shattered the close-orbit record it set less than six months ago.

The mysteriously quiet behavior of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole may be influenced by magnetic field lines.