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The leadership of the House Science Committee introduced a NASA authorization bill Jan. 24 that seeks to significantly alter NASA's current plans to return humans to the moon and make them part of an effort to send human...

The Year of the Rat has officially begun and Google is celebrating the start of the Lunar New Year with an adorable doodle of a cartoon rat.

Some scientists have been poking at the foundations of dark energy, but many say the concept remains on solid, if mysterious, ground.

Spacewalking astronauts worked to complete repairs to a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday and give it new life.

President Donald Trump on Friday (Jan. 24) officially unveiled the logo for the U.S. Space Force and the reaction has been strong. It might just be because the logo, which draws on its Air Force legacy, bears a striking ...

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features an area in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia, where part of the tropical dry forest has been cleared for agricultural use....

U.S. Space Force statement: The seal "honors the Department of the Air Force's proud history" SpaceNews.com

The battery malfunction that put DirecTV's Spaceway-1 satellite at risk of exploding has a "very low likelihood" of occuring on other satellites, according to the satellite's manufacturer, Boeing. SpaceNews.com

A team of U.S. military and civilian defense officials spent most of 2019 drawing up plans to create a Space Force as a new service branch within the Air Force. But it wasn't until Congress reached a deal in December on ...

NASA has selected acting directors at two of its field centers to take those positions on a permanent basis. SpaceNews.com

It took four years of planning, 20 new tools shipped by spacecraft and an unprecedented four-part repair job, but a $2 billion experiment on the International Space Station is all patched up after a spacewalk by astronau...

The private small-satellite launch company Rocket Lab will fly its first mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) next week, kicking off a busy 2020 that also includes plans for a new launchpad and large...

The martian radiation environment is a problem for human explorers that cannotbe overstated --

Anthropologist reveals a potentially big flaw in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

Actress Whoopi Goldberg accepted an invitation to reprise her "Star Trek" role as Guinan -- while on camera, in front of a live studio audience.

NASA plans to send a pair of astronauts on a spacewalk, one more time, to finish fixing a complicated science experiment today (Jan. 25). Here's how to watch it live.

US President Donald Trump unveiled the logo of Space Force on Friday, attracting critics who said America's newest military branch had boldly gone where Star Trek went before.

A new study has shown how gas giants (like Proxima c) can exist around Red Dwarf suns, the most common type of star in the Universe The post Giant Planets Could Form Around Tiny Stars in Just a Few Thousand Years appeare...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, asteroid Bennu (101955 Bennu), on December 3rd, 2018. Since then, the spacecraft has been examining the asteroid’s surface, looking for a suitable landing spot to coll...