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NASA is thinking about going back to Pluto, this time to stay for a while.

The NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) and collaborating organizations SETI Institute, Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Collins Aerospace, and Ntention are announcing the successful field test of an "astronaut sm...

Air Force has submitted an acquisition strategy for the Space C2 program which is now being reviewed by the Pentagon SpaceNews.com

An unpiloted Japanese cargo ship left the International Space Station Friday (Nov. 1) wrapping up a month-long delivery mission as a new U.S. supply ship lifts off this weekend.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Earth got gobbled up by a black hole (apart from everybody dying, of course)? Now you can find out, thanks to the online Black Hole Collision Calculator.

A Dutch nonprofit wants to give children around the world a taste of the "overview effect," or the view of Earth from outer space, through virtual reality.

NASA’s New Horizons mission taught us a lot about Pluto, the ice dwarf planet. But the spacecraft sped past Pluto so quickly, we only got high-resolution images of one side of the planet, the so-called “encounter sid...

The Mars 2020 rover recently passed a milestone at NASA JPL, where it stood on its wheels and legs for the very first time. The post Mars 2020 Stands Up on its Wheels For The First Time appeared first on Universe Today.

Made In Space's new satellite-construction robot could herald a new generation of autonomous machines working on the moon -- and perhaps even Mars.

Top officials with the European Space Agency remain confident that they will be able to resolve the parachute problems that threaten to delay next summer's launch of the ExoMars 2020 rover mission. SpaceNews.com

Scientists have discovered a "survivalist" planet that shouldn't exist orbiting a pulsating star.

The pace of finding threatening near-Earth objects is slowing, so the community is looking forward to a new space telescope to help in its quest to locate 90% of all city-threatening worlds.

Are planetary burps to blame?

Did you know the largest desert in the world is also the coldest place in the world? In the heart of Antarctica, where temperatures can drop to -80°C, life is so hard there is no life to be found as even bacteria cannot...

The rise of the machines drew one step closer to reality today, as researchers announced that the Google DeepMind-powered AlphaStar AI has now achieved Grandmaster ranking in StarCraft 2.

South Africa's space agency has existed for just eight years, but the country wants to tackle a crucial challenge in satellite technology: understanding space weather.

NASA and Boeing will broadcast live coverage of the CST-100 Starliner Pad Abort Test on Monday, Nov. 4, from Launch Complex 32 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

PhD students from the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy have released a new app to encourage members of the public to stay up to date with new gravitational wave events in near real time.

The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, and a massive body can therefore act like a lens (a "gravitational lens") to distort the image of an object seen behind it. Scientists first confirmed Einstein's ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over cracks in the Brunt ice shelf, which lies in the Weddell Sea sector of Antarctica....

When the Soviet Union beats the United States to landing the first human on the moon, it changes the course of the space race in the new Apple TV+ series "For All Mankind."

A Japanese cargo craft is preparing to end its mission at the International Space Station, as a U.S. resupply ship stands ready to launch to the orbiting lab....