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Astronauts face many challenges to their health, due to the exceptional conditions of spaceflight. Among these are a variety of infectious microbes that can attack their suppressed immune systems.

If you live in Vermont and heard an explosion just before dinnertime Sunday (March 7), there's a good chance that was a shockwave from an incoming meteor exploding over the state.

In response to the reignited global space race, Japan is planning a record space budget of 449.6 billion yen ($4.14 billion) in the fiscal year 2021, up 23.1 percent over the current fiscal year that ends March 30, accor...

mprovising new stuff from the stuff you have is part of an astronaut's job description--think Apollo 13's crew refitting CO2 filters to save their own lives, or stranded Mark Watney in The Martian, feeding himself on the...

A new analysis of lunar rock samples has revealed details about its early history, particularly how the Moon's iron core differentiated from its mantle. The post Apollo Rocks Reveal the Moon’s Early History appeared fi...

The singed hunk of asteroid was discovered in the driveway of a house in Winchcombe, a small town in the southwestern English county of Gloucestershire.

Data from the NASA spacecraft's journey to Jupiter suggests that Mars may be shedding dust into interplanetary space.

As Russia and China sign a deal for a shared lunar space station, we look at the new race to the Moon with Nokia even working with NASA to give it a 4G network.

Two NASA astronauts will conduct the fifth spacewalk of the year Saturday, March 13, to complete several systems upgrades to the International Space Station.

ViacomCBS had decided to swap the long-delayed "Halo" TV sci-fi series from Showtime to its recently-renamed streaming service Paramount+ for 2022.

NASA has assigned astronaut Mark Vande Hei to an upcoming mission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 64/65 crew.

The disappearance of a star can take many forms.  It could go supernova.  It could turn into a black hole.  Or it could just fade away quietly.  Sometimes, the last of these is actually the most interesting to observ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

France has begun its first military exercises in space to test its ability to defend its satellites, in a sign of the growing competition between world powers in Earth's orbit.

In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and Northern Europe on Sunday 28 February, has been found.

University of Arizona researcher Jekan Thanga is taking scientific inspiration from an unlikely source: the biblical tale of Noah's Ark. Rather than two of every animal, however, his solar-powered ark on the moon would s...

A detailed look at NASA's Lucy mission, the first to visit the Trojan asteroids around Jupiter

Scientists are betting on commercial reusable suborbital vehicles to advance the next frontier of science. SpaceNews

Author Alex White discusses his chilling new "Alien" novel, "Alien: Into Charybdis."

Russia and China unveiled plans Tuesday for a joint lunar space station, as Moscow seeks to recapture the glory of its space pioneering days of Soviet times, and Beijing gears up its own extraterrestrial ambitions.

The Chinese and Russian space agencies signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday on construction of an international lunar research station. SpaceNews

Regions of the Moon known as irregular mare patches – formed by magma cooling from a volcanic eruption – have almost no big craters, indicating that they must be relatively young. By studying the distribution of crat...