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Sending a mission to moons of Mars has been on the wish list for mission planners and space enthusiasts for quite some time. For the past few years, however, a team of Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) engineers and scientist...

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China resumed satellite launches Wednesday (Feb. 19) amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, lofting a Long March 2D rocket in the country's first launch since the Chinese New Year.

NASA has awarded more than $39.8 million through the agency's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project to increase student and faculty engagement in STEM at community colleges, technical schools and universiti...

While the National Space Council has laid out a clear path to a prosperous American future in space and NASA leadership have embraced ambitious goals with quick and efficient plans, the NASA Authorization Act of 2020 wou...

Engineers plan to use the robotic arm on its InSight Mars lander to push a heat flow probe into the surface, acknowledging that they have "few alternatives" if that effort fails. SpaceNews.com

When astronomers talk about an optical telescope, they often mention the size of its mirror. That’s because the larger your mirror, the sharper your view of the heavens can be. It’s known as resolving power, and it i...

After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robotic arm to press down ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop "enabling technologies" for DARPA's Glide Breaker program under a newly announced contract, which is worth up to $19.6 million.

The first cookie to be baked in space may soon be bound for the Smithsonian.

Even the coldest places on Earth do not compare to how frigid outer space is.

SpaceX has revived plans to develop a launch vehicle manufacturing facility at the Port of Los Angeles, a little more than a year after it abandoned its original agreement there. SpaceNews.com

A star of about eight percent the Sun's mass has been caught emitting an enormous 'super flare' of X-rays--a dramatic high-energy eruption that poses a fundamental problem for astronomers, who did not think it possible o...

Lego is at it again with two new seriously awesome, Mandalorian-inspired BrickHeadz and a rad Razor Crest.

This Saturday (Feb. 22), a daredevil amateur rocket-maker will try once again to blast himself off-Earth as part of "Homemade Astronauts," a new series on the Science Channel that follows self-financed, self-made teams o...

String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain ... everything.

The fifth episode of "Picard" is positively jam-packed. Raffi realizes who are family really are, Picard and Rios get to play fancy dress, Seven gets revenge, Dr Maddox gets rescued and Dr. Jurati shows she's something o...

Alexander Krivenyshev of WorldTimeZone.com photographed a gorgeous predawn sky show Thursday morning (Feb. 20), capturing the crescent moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the red star Antares arcing over the Big Apple.

Image: Spiky walls for space testing

Video: 00:02:55 In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over Houston, the most populous city in Texas and the fourth largest in the US. See also Houston, Texas...

Image: Houston, Texas