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Some of the Earth's building material was stardust from red giants, researchers from ETH Zurich have established. They have also explained why the Earth contains more of this stardust than the asteroids or the planet Mar...

Traveling approximately 260 miles over the Yellow Sea east of Shanghai, the automated Russian Progress 74 cargo resupply spacecraft docked at 5:35 a.m. EST to the Pirs docking compartment on the Russian segment of the In...

Last week (Dec. 5), NASA engineers purposefully exploded a test version of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's propellant tank.

Thanks to a Canadian collaboration, a team of citizen scientists has completed an important set of tests with a commercial spacesuit.

Blue Origin will launch a New Shepard spacecraft filled with science experiments and thousands of postcards from kids on Tuesday (Dec. 10). Here's how to watch live.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

To prove their massive rocket could survive well beyond its intended limits, NASA blew a hole in its fuel tank.

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has imaged an outburst from the comet 46P/Wirtanen. It caught the outburst in what NASA is calling the clearest images yet of a comet outburst from start to finish. A come...

These large moons' complex combination of properties could be best explained if they grew slowly from pebbles.

The ESA has announced a mission to launch a four-armed robot to grab a single piece of space junk and drag it into the atmosphere.

Barrett said the Air Force is reviewing the NDAA conference agreement and discussing next steps SpaceNews.com

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named Robert Pearce as the next associate administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD). Pearce replaces Jaiwon Shin, who retired from the agency on Aug. 31.

The Greenland ice sheet is losing mass seven times faster than in the 1990s, according to new research.

The Planetary Society's solar-sailing craft owes a debt to visionaries across four centuries, said CEO Bill Nye as he celebrated LightSail 2 being named one of Time magazine's best inventions of the year.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Have you heard of Adam Makarenko? No? Adam is an artist who makes physical models of exoplanets then creates elaborate photo shoots of them. Adam is our new favorite Instagram feed at Universe Today, and he even took ove...

A flying telescope recently captured some of the most accurate measurements ever of the moon's brightness.

Blue Origin will have to wait at least another day to fly its first space mission in seven months after bad weather delayed a launch attempt today (Dec. 10).

Image: This box of holiday cheer is actually tubes of plasma containing suspended microparticles exposed to an electrical current to form 3D crystal structures. Called Plasma Kristall-4, this ESA-Roscosmos experiment has...

Earth has many stories to tell, even in the dark of night. Earth at Night, NASA's new 200-page ebook, is now available online and includes more than 150 images of our planet in darkness as captured from space by Earth-ob...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

TriSept Corp. announced plans Dec. 10 to open an office at the United Kingdom's Harwell Space Cluster as part of a comprehensive teaming agreement with the Satellite Applications Catapult. SpaceNews.com