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The European Space Agency's Euclid mission, set to launch in 2022, will investigate two of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy: dark matter and dark energy. A team of NASA engineers recently delivered critical hard...

Tiny glass pearls found inside fossilized clams are likely a sign that a meteorite made a sizeable splash near the ancient Florida peninsula, according to a team of researchers.

Griffin: The SDA is "not the arbiter and owner of all things space." SpaceNews.com

Actor Rutger Hauer has passed away at age 75. The Hollywood trade reports Hauer passed away July 19 in his home in the Netherlands, following an unspecified illness.

Here are some of the remarkable women who helped make the Apollo moon landings possible.

A fireball as bright as the full moon streaked across the Canadian province of Ontario early Wednesday (July 24), possibly throwing meteorites to Earth along the way.

JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is teaming up with the nation’s largest company to build a lunar rover. Toyota, the second largest automobile company in the world (only Volkswagen makes more cars) has sig...

Whatever the final language that comes out of conference, it will likely not include many of the items that DoD has asked for. SpaceNews.com

ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has successfully launched their Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon. The mission, which includes an orbiter, a lander, and a rover, was launched into space on a GSLV Mk III rocket ...

Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter (84-inch) telescope at the National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory have led to the discovery of the fastest eclipsing white ...

Nearly every atmospheric science textbook ever written will say that hurricanes are an inherently wet phenomenon--they use warm, moist air for fuel. But according to new simulations, the storms can also form in very cold...

In a pair of new papers, scientists paint a picture of how solar cycles suddenly die, potentially causing tsunamis of plasma to race through the Sun's interior and trigger the birth of the next sunspot cycle only a few s...

Technology image of the week: Proba-V shows the rapid recovery of Argentinian grasslands from wildfire burn scars

That might be a warning --

Neil Armstrong's family won a wrongful-death settlement against a hospital in 2014, and it's only now coming to light.

It's "slime time" at the International Space Station.

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Half a century after humans first walked on the moon, a number of private companies and nations are planning to build permanent bases on the lunar surface. Despite the technological progress since the Apollo era, this wi...

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Data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed how supermassive black holes shape their host galaxies with powerful winds that sweep away interstellar matter.

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is set to become the largest radio telescope on Earth. Scientists of Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) with international partners have now exa...

On July 19, 2019, at 1:27 p.m. EDT, mission operators sent a shutdown command to one of two Van Allen Probes spacecraft, known as spacecraft B, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, or APL, in Laurel, Ma...