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The Moon's south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it's unimaginably cold, massively cratered, and has areas that are either constantly bathed in sunlight or in darkness. T...

On July 23, 1999, the Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center carrying the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In the two decades that have passed, Chandra's powerful and unique X-ray eyes have contribute...

NASA has secured a host satellite provider and ride into space for an instrument that will dramatically advance our understanding of air quality over North America.

To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, VP Pence recently unveiled the the Orion capsule that will take astronauts back to the Moon in 2024. The post VP Pence Unveils the Spacecraft that will Take Astronauts Ba...

The circus that is San Diego Comic-Con is over for another year, but don't worry if you missed it. We've got all the sci-fi news right here.

The spacecraft is set to harness the power of sunlight alone to alter its orbit around Earth --

The Italian Space Agency on July 23 kick-started development of a communications satellite that Italy will share with other nations as part of the pan-European GovSatCom program. SpaceNews.com

Mission officials say a tiny spacecraft orbiting Earth appears to have successfully unfurled its solar sails to test the potential of using sunlight for propulsion.

The venture arm of Lockheed Martin has invested in small launch startup ABL Space Systems, the second such company the aerospace giant has taken a stake in. SpaceNews.com

A decade or so from now, astronauts could be cruising around the moon inside a Toyota rover.

A trio of researchers at the University of California has found evidence that suggests there is far more ice on the surface of the moon than has been thought. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Li...

The man known as the 'father of flight control' - Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.  - has died at the age of 95. Kraft joined the NASA Space Task Group in November 1958 and became the first flight director. He created the conc...

An app that integrates navigational data and weather conditions to improve flight safety for pilots has been launched. Its inventors hope to have a full commercial version on sale by the end of the year.

ESA's Aeolus satellite, which carries the world's first space Doppler wind lidar, has been delivering high-quality global measurements of Earth's wind since it was launched almost a year ago. However, part of the instrum...

Using the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR), astronomers have discovered a diffuse radio halo around the spiral galaxy NGC 4565. The finding, reported in a paper published July 16 on the arXiv pre-print server, could shed more...

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins spent their last full day in space before landing gearing up for their Earth return. See how here.

Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director who invented the concept of Mission Control, died on July 22, 2019. He was 95. "America has truly lost a national treasure with the passing of one of NASA's earliest pioneers," s...

Aerospace company Lockheed Martin has finished building the Orion capsule that will fly on the uncrewed Artemis 1 test mission around the moon next summer, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday (July 20).

When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, he took one giant leap for planetary science.

All atoms and molecules emit distinctive spectral lines across the spectrum, the details of which depend on the internal structures of the species (for example, the vibration and rotation properties of molecules) and how...

An ambitious instrument for ESA's ExoMars 2020 mission has passed its testing in conditions resembling those on the Red Planet. It will now be transported to Russia for its acceptance review, followed by integration onto...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Liftoff of Soyuz MS-13 carrying ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to the International Space Station