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People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm of science fiction to propose terraforming. In a 1971 paper, Sagan suggested that va...

The galaxy NGC 1156 resembles a delicate cherry blossom tree flowering in springtime in this Hubble image. The many bright "blooms" within the galaxy are in fact stellar nurseries--regions where new stars are springing t...

The Russian-German Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space mission successfully lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday, July 13 at 14:31. Onboard is the eROSITA X-ray telescope, which was developed and built by ...

This year's Amazon.com Prime Day megasale gives you the chance to own two of the most popular droids in science fiction history -- R2-D2 and BB-9E.

Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer became the third acting secretary of defense since Jim Mattis resigned. SpaceNews.com

Thin layers of lightweight aerogel might be the main ingredient for making regions of the Red Planet more Earth-like --

The committee cited concerns about the "turmoil surrounding the Space Development Agency." SpaceNews.com

Under newly proposed rules, smallsat operators will be able to choose a licensing path -- for authorization as a domestic operator or for U.S. market access as a foreign operator -- for $30,000 instead of the $472,000 fe...

The International Space Station is gearing up for a pair of spaceships launching next weekend to deliver a new crew and more science and supplies....

Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, moons forming in the disk of debris around a large exoplanet. Astronomers have suspected for a long time that this is how larger planets--like Jupiter in our own Solar Sys...

The House and Senate voted in support of a space service to be nested inside the Air Force, but much still remains unresolved. SpaceNews.com

Fifty years to the day since mankind launched the first mission to set foot on it, the Moon is set to treat Earthlings to a partial lunar eclipse on Tuesday.

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This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

On the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 tomorrow, the moon will be darkened by Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse.

Snoopy will don an orange spacesuit and float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and NASA's future missions.

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Transforming Mars into a life-friendly world doesn't have to be a herculean, planet-wide effort.

At an International Astronomical Union meeting in 1955, noted astronomer Gerard Kuiper asked for suggestions and collaborators on a project to make a map of the moon. At the time, the best lunar atlases had hand-drawn im...

India's space organization is examining the technical snag that led to the aborting of the launch Monday of a spacecraft intended to land on the far side of the moon, an official said.

Steve Bales was just 26 years old when NASA's Apollo 11 mission touched down on the moon's surface, and to this day, he remains astounded that somebody so young would be permitted to make a call that affected history.

German Aerospace Center (DLR):