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To help commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, SpaceNews asked readers to weigh in on the must-see realistic space movies for anyone serious about space. Grab the popcorn and let the countdown begin. SpaceNews.co...

NASA's next spacecraft on Mars is getting a nuclear battery to do science on the Red Planet.

Intelsat says a micrometeorite impact or an electrostatic discharge coupled with a "harness flaw" are the most likely reasons Intelsat's first high-throughput satellite suffered a mission-ending failure in April. SpaceNe...

The Planetary Society announced July 31 that a small satellite it launched a month earlier had successfully demonstrated the ability to change its orbit with a solar sail. SpaceNews.com

For those looking up at the sky tonight in North America, you may notice something missing--the moon! That's because July 31 marks a lunar event called the "black moon" which is the second new moon that happens in one ca...

High above the Earth, researchers are conducting a first-of-its-kind study to help patients with Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis on the planet below. The International Space Station experiment is looking for w...

A new study of Apollo lunar rocks suggests that the moon is older than anyone believed.

Scientists just discovered a "super-Earth" exoplanet that could harbor life.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named George Morrow to serve as acting director of the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, effective Thursday, Aug. 1.

The most comprehensive and widely-held theory of how the Moon formed is called the ‘giant impact hypothesis.’ That hypothesis shows that about 150 million years after the Solar System formed, a roughly Mars-sized pla...

"Becoming Superman" is half family drama, half behind-the-scenes showbiz anecdotes, with a little writing advice and a few life lessons sprinkled in.

Lava tubes on the moon could be crucial sites for human outposts --

A new space station experiment is testing whether would-be space miners can enlist some very small potential accomplices to do their grunt work.

An international team of astronomers led by Cornell's Lisa Kaltenegger has characterized the first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system.

The discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a young star could provide new information on planet formation.

NASA is working with private companies to send humans back to the moon. But what happens if those companies get there first?

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Since the first use of electric lamps in the 19th century, society hasn't looked back. Homes and streets are lit at all hours so that people can go about their business when they'd once have been asleep. Besides the obvi...

Using the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR), astronomers have probed PSZ2 G099.86+58.45, one of the densest cluster of galaxies known to date. The study revealed the presence of a radio halo in this cluster, making it one of t...

Earth's scorching core is not a loner -- it has been caught mingling with other, underworldly layers.

The Russian-built Progress 73 cargo ship launched to the International Space Station Wednesday (July 31) on a 4-hour trek to the orbiting laboratory.

Astronomers, astrophysicists and particle physicists gathered recently at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California to discuss the seriousness of differing measurements of the Hubble Con...