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A team of researchers and explorers tested the MS1 Mars analog spacesuit in Iceland in one of the most Mars-like environments on Earth.

NASA satellites have observed thick smoke billows and extremely high temperatures as record-breaking fires continue to scorch the Amazon.

Any theory of quantum gravity is going to have to grapple with some weird time stuff.

Reality revealed.

At a White House ceremony Thursday, President Donald Trump officially reestablished U.S. Space Command as the Defense Department's 11th unified combatant command. SpaceNews.com

NASA is keeping close watch on Hurricane Dorian as it barrels across the Atlantic Ocean on its way toward Florida. Here's the view from the International Space Station.

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled Monday that it lacks jurisdiction to hear SpaceX's complaint that the Air Force has put it at a disadvantage to win future launch service contracts by denying it a share of the $2.2...

The Expedition 60 crew is back on track with ongoing space research today after coordinating a flurry of space traffic at the International Space Station. The astronauts are also continuing to clean up after last week's ...

An Iranian rocket apparently exploded on the pad today (Aug. 29), marking the third launch failure of 2019 for the nation.

Mindful of President Donald Trump's intense interest in space, the Pentagon is declaring U.S. Space Command open for business as part of a broader effort to better defend American interests in space.

This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser A...

Registrations are now open for ESA's Open Day in the Netherlands on Sunday 6 October - your chance to meet astronauts, space experts and see behind the scenes of Europe's space adventure at ESA's largest establishment.

Russia on Thursday unveiled a new space suit for a future spaceship, but the design may have to be changed to continue a decades-old tradition: making a stop to pee on the way to the launch.

China Satcom's ChinaSat-18 satellite, which industry sources told SpaceNews was insured for $250 million, encountered a potentially mission-ending problem following its reportedly successful Aug. 19 launch aboard a Long ...

Dawn of X... in space?

A rocky extrasolar moon (exomoon) with bubbling lava may orbit a planet 550 light-years away from us. This is suggested by an international team of researchers led by the University of Bern on the basis of theoretical pr...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center is preparing to weather the arrival of Hurricane Dorian, which could hit Florida early next week.

A special handful of asteroids that spacecraft have never visited seem to be massive hunks of metal, the nuggets of would-be planets that have lost their rocky outer layers.

When "Oumuamua crossed Earth's orbit on October 19th, 2017, it became the first interstellar object ever to be observed by humans. These and subsequent observations, rather than dispelling the mystery of "Oumuamua's true...

Red rover, red rover, send a name for Mars 2020 right over! NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for its next Mars rover mission.

On schedule to launch in the mid-2020s, NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the WFIRST spacecraft ...

To combine both halves of Webb, engineers carefully lifted the Webb telescope (which includes the mirrors and science instruments) above the already-combined sunshield and spacecraft using a crane. Team members slowly gu...