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Air Force officials see growing support for space on Capitol Hill and DoD despite ongoing leadership changes. SpaceNews.com

There’s something about Jupiter that mesmerizes those who gaze at it. It’s intricate, dazzling clouds are a visual representation of the laws of nature that’s hard to turn away from. And even though the Juno spacec...

NASA's Apollo-era Mission Operations Control Room, a National Historic Landmark since 1985, has been restored to appear as it did for the moon landing 50 years ago.

An Australian-led research effort has managed to pinpoint the location of the first non-repeating Fast Radio Burst, which could have immense implications for astronomy. The post A Fast Radio Burst has Finally Been Traced...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The first commercial mission for SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy launch system will likely take place in 2021, a company executive said June 26.

NASA has awarded a contract to University of Hawaii Systems in Honolulu for management and operational support of the agency's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) and related services.

The Solar System is a really big place, and it takes forever to travel from world to world with traditional chemical rockets. But one technique, developed back in the 1960s might provide a way to dramatically shorten our...

NASA has selected eight new research teams to collaborate on research into the intersection of space science and human space exploration as part of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).

Taika Waititi has signed on in an unspecified role to "crack" 20th Century Fox's long-simmering Flash Gordon film as an animated movie.

The Canadian government will launch a new satellite in 2022 to demonstrate the use of quantum technology for protecting commercial and national communication networks. SpaceNews.com

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Gulf of Taranto, located on the inner heel of southern Italy....

"We are in discussions with three different customers as we speak right now to be that first mission," Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's vice president of commercial sales, said at APSAT 2019. "Those are all telecom companies....

NASA's push to return humans to the moon will get a helping hand from a mission named Heracles that will use a robotic rover to survey the lunar terrain and return samples to Earth.

Scientists reexamined the century-old mysteries surrounding an asteroid impact from 1908 in order to better understand the likelihood of these events in the future.

Do you know how to maintain a family-sized garden without unlimited soil, natural sunlight and Earth's gravity? If the answer is yes, then call NASA.

From 1969 to 1972, six NASA missions named for the Greek god Apollo successfully landed 12 men on the surface of the moon; Neil, "Buzz," two men named Alan, two men named Charles, Edgar, David, James, John, Jack and Euge...

What do a deep underwater volcano in Hawaii and Saturn's moon have in common? Astrobiologists are hoping the answer to that question is life.

Astrophysicists at Western University have found evidence for the direct formation of black holes that do not need to emerge from a star remnant. The production of black holes in the early universe, formed in this manner...

Scientists zapped mold spores in a laboratory and concluded that two types of fungus could survive a journey to the moon or Mars.

The Chang'e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover resumed science and exploration activities June 27 for the start of the mission's seventh lunar day on the far side of the moon SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have spent the past dozen years hunting for fast radio bursts (FRBs) - flashes of radio waves that come from outer space and last just milliseconds. And after a dozen years of work we still don't know exactly...