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Meet VIPER, NASA’s new lunar rover, equipped with a drill to probe the Moon’s surface and look for water ice. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, will carry a one-meter drill and will use it to...

Data from the first year of the InSight mission has just been released, and its revealing some unexpected things about Mars' magnetic fields. The post Magnetic Fields Around Mars InSight are 10x Stronger than Scientists ...

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is moving forward on development even as President Donald Trump's administration tries to cancel the mission, for the third budget in a row.

Astronomers have found a white dwarf that was once two white dwarfs. The pair of stars merged into one about 1.3 billion years ago. The resulting star, named WDJ0551+4135, is about 150 light years away. A white dwarf is ...

Using data from the second Gaia data release, a team of astronomers has demonstrated that the "warp" in our galaxy is rapidly changing! The post The Disk of the Milky Way is Warped Because it Already Collided With Anothe...

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Boeing and Lockheed Martin each received $191 million and $240 million contracts, respectively. SpaceNews.com

Planetary scientists and linguistic style makers don't agree about how to write the name of Earth's nearest neighbor.

There are several ways to look for alien life on distant worlds. One is to listen for radio signals these aliens might send, such as SETI and others are doing, but another is to study the atmospheres of exoplanets to fin...

A SpaceX rocket has quietly touched down in Houston, landing under the cover of night at the NASA visitor center where it will soon go on display.

As far as cosmologists can tell, the mysterious force behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, a force that we call dark energy, remains constant. But it may not have done so in the past.

Looking for life traditionally starts with finding a planet with the right temperature -- but scientists are working to find new criteria for tracking down potentially habitable worlds.

Rejoice! If you've missed your daily fix of seeing views of our rotating Earth from space, NOAA announced that its Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is now back in action. The deep space satellite, which produces i...

All five remaining instruments on NASA's venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft are back to gathering science data after power overuse in late January interrupted the probe's operations.

Japan suspended its yearly funding for a giant telescope project in Hawaii, citing an ongoing stalemate over its construction.

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This titanium propellant tank, on show in the laboratory corridor of ESA's technical heart, comes from Europe's Vega launcher--one of four serving its AVUM upper stage.

Testing one, two and now, three.

The 3-D-printed thrust chamber assembly of the methane-fueled M10 rocket engine has passed its first series of hot firing tests. The M10 engine will power the upper stage of future Vega evolutions from 2025.

NASA has approved a major astrophysics mission to go into the next phase of its development even as the administration seeks once again to cancel it. SpaceNews.com

A research team claimed to have found the first known extraterrestrial protein, spotting it in a space rock that fell to Earth 30 years ago.

Preparations to launch the ExoMars rover to the Red Planet this summer are in a crunch as critical parachute tests have again been delayed.