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A revised policy for approving the launch of spacecraft with nuclear power systems is the latest measure intended to support greater use of nuclear power systems in orbit and beyond. SpaceNews.com

Mars likely experienced heavy rain followed that later froze, evidence that the planet could have once supported life.

A team of researchers from several European countries and one from Chile has found evidence of three possibly habitable exoplanets circling the star GJ1061. In their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, and soon ...

Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers was able to study the surface of an exoplanet orbiting a nearby red dwarf star for the first time. The post Astronomers Image the Atmosphere of a Red Dwa...

Ming-Na Wen will be a part of Disney+'s "Star Wars: The Mandalorian."

This week, scientists from NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most remote, arid regions on t...

NASA has captured satellite images of the billowing smoke from the catastrophic fires in the Amazon rainforest, which continue to spread.

Jupiter's clouds are a beautiful annoyance, blocking a deeper view by scientists into the gas giant -- a necessary view if they want to understand how the planet works.

NASA's mission patch for the Artemis moon program saw space for the first time during a dramatic spacewalk earlier this week.

Media are invited to join NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, astronaut Megan McArthur and several special guests, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, for a Women's Equality Day event Monday, A...

Shareholders of Hong Kong satellite operator AsiaSat voted overwhelmingly in favor of privatization, setting the company on a course to delist from the Hong Kong stock exchange on Sept. 5. SpaceNews.com

A new, superhero-themed land is coming to Disney.

Earth's dazzling biodiversity may not be so remarkable in the cosmic scheme of things, a new study suggests.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In the search for life beyond our galaxy, many scientists have their eyes turned toward orbs like Earth: rocky planets. So after the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) detected a rocky planet slightly larger th...

Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system's eighth planet. Marking the end of the Voyager mission's Grand Tour o...

'Ad Astra': New Imax trailer shows Brad Pitt traveling to the edge of the solar system to stop an uncontrolled antimatter reaction.

A robot deployed on one of the darkest asteroids in the solar system may now shed light on the origins of some of the oldest, rarest meteorites, a new study finds.

A Japanese company that aims to help humanity settle the moon has adjusted the timeline of its first two missions.

The team behind NASA's InSight Mars lander has named a particularly peripatetic Red Planet rock after The Rolling Stones.

The House of Representatives has taken the first step toward honoring a pioneering woman in astronomy --

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