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A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published today reveal a planet alive with quakes, dust devils and ...

Virgin Galactic executives suggested Feb. 25 that the beginning of commercial flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle might slip again, even as the company starts planning to resume ticket sales. SpaceNews.com

A team of scientists from the Netherlands have proposed an exciting new approach for finding exoplanets: look for signs of auroras! The post Detecting Exoplanets Through Their Exoauroras appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth's atmosphere and the amount abs...

Northrop Grumman's satellite servicing spacecraft successfully docked with an Intelsat communications satellite Feb. 25 in a bid to keep the nearly 19-year-old satellite in service an additional five years, Northrop Grum...

Radar data from the Chang’e-4 mission shows multiple debris layers under the rover, recording eons of lunar history --

Meteorite samples from an ancient impact site in Germany may offer new clues about the history of oceans and life on Mars.

A little over a year after landing, China's spacecraft Chang'E-4 is continuing to unveil secrets from the far side of the Moon. The latest study, published on Feb. 26 in Science Advances, reveals what lurks below the sur...

Scientists have devised new analytical tools to break down the enigmatic history of Mars' atmosphere--and whether life was once possible there.

The first published data from the Yutu 2 rover's ground-penetrating radar instrument reveal the layered structure beneath the gray dirt of Von Kármán Crater's floor.

The quest to find and investigate life beyond the Earth has reached a tipping point. We stand on the brink of changing the perspective of humanity's place in the universe and finally answering the question "Are we alone?...

This year shows no signs of a let up in space-sector momentum. Here are 20 predictions for 2020 as seen by SpaceNews reporters and correspondents. SpaceNews.com

NASA is delaying the launch of a long-lived rover designed to sniff out water on the moon.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Scientists are asking for the public's help to find the origin of hundreds of thousands of galaxies that have been discovered by the largest radio telescope ever built: LOFAR. Where do these mysterious objects that exten...

The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of a giant star and is a glorious but relatively short-lived astron...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Planetary scientists at Curtin University have shed some light on the tumultuous early days of the largely preserved protoplanet Asteroid 4 Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our Solar System.

Using the AstroSat satellite, astronomers have investigated a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) known as 4U 1323-62, reporting the detection of thermonuclear X-ray bursts and dips from the source. The discovery was presented ...

If you're looking to book a ride to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic, you shouldn't have to wait much longer.

When it comes to grasping an object, our eyes, ears and hands are intimately connected. Our brain draws information from different senses, such as sight, sound and touch, to coordinate hand movements.

The magnetic field in one zone on Mars is about 10 times stronger than scientists expected, and it's changing rapidly.