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NASA is headed to Saturn's largest moon, Titan -- but some scientists hope to convince the agency to send another mission to Titan's neighbor, Enceladus, to look for signs of life.

ESA has restored operations of four space science missions it placed on hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic, a move that illustrated how one agency's actions can affect others. SpaceNews.com

As NASA prepares for the first launch of Artemis I, the first mission of the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Moon, one team will be there every step of the way: the aptly nicknamed.....

On Tuesday (April 7), the moon will arrive at its closest point to Earth in 2020 a few hours before becoming full. This "supermoon" will be the biggest of the year -- but you may not see a difference.

The U.S. Space Force will commission 60 lieutenants graduating from the Air Force Academy. SpaceNews.com

As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission - which has become known as "a successful failure" that saw the safe return of its crew in spite of a catastrophic explosion - the agency is sharing a variety o...

A supermoon rises in the sky this week, looking to be the biggest and brightest of the year.

The lunar resources that will help the United States establish a long-term human presence on and around the moon are there for the taking, the White House believes.

Already visible in telescopes and high-power binoculars, the comet may be bright enough to see with the naked eye by the end of April.

If you've caught a splendid look at Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the past few weeks, get ready for a major perspective shift.

NASA's newest podcast is taking listeners on an adventure to explore the wonders of Earth and help unravel the mysteries of the universe.

Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a relatively larg...

Coronal heating is a topic dedicated to explaining how the corona may be heated up to a temperature of millions of degrees, far above that of the photosphere. To transport magnetic energy into the corona, Alfvén-wave tu...

If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This question is becoming reality, as ESA opens a call for scientists to join a NASA team working to determine which martian samples should be ...

Pristine alien material from the object 2I/Borisov is being exposed to space for the first time—but the coronavirus pandemic is stopping astronomers from watching it --

Astronomers have carried out very-long-baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations of the quasar IRAS F11119+3257 using the European VLBI Network (EVN). They found that the object has a high velocity two-sided jet, a fi...

Founded in 2015 to commercialize cheap, narrowband signal transmitters developed at the University of South Australia, Myriota has raised $37 million total. SpaceNews.com

A trio of space travelers, including NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Thursday, April 9.

Stars far, far away could appear a lot closer when viewed through our telescopes thanks to new research from The Australian National University (ANU).

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The private sector wants to bring nuclear power to space to enable faster and more efficient space travel.

An exoplanet may be shaped like an American football due to the mighty gravitational forces it experiences close to its star, a new study finds.