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A constellation of navigation and telecommunication satellites could be orbiting the moon by 2030, according to plans just announced by the European Space Agency.

The former astronaut tapped by the White House to serve as NASA deputy administrator told senators she supported extending the International Space Station and continuing limitations on the agency's ability to cooperate w...

"Clyde's Spot," a feature discovered on Jupiter in 2020, has a strange new look, NASA's Juno spacecraft reveals.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a dramatic image last month of Curiosity ascending Mont Mercou, a landform on the slopes of the Red Planet's 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) Mt. Sharp.

We kick off our latest giveaway this week and it's a special one! We've also got some of the best questions in this week's AMA with Dr. Joe Pesce. Finally, we do some alien roleplaying!

The Ingenuity team is preparing the little chopper for its sixth Red Planet flight, which is expected to take place in the next week.

A strange consequence of Lynn Rothschild's current research is that she ends up snapping photos of the more exotic mushroom offerings she encounters in the grocery store's produce aisle.

New Hubble Space Telescope observations have given more credence to a theory explaining mysterious radio energy bursts.

A Japanese oil exploration company recently dug up some samples from the Pacific Ocean floor and donated them to researchers. Those researchers, led by Dr. Anton Wallner at the Australian National University, then found ...

Media accreditation is open for prelaunch and launch activities for NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station, the second uncrewed flight test of the company's CST-100 Starlin...

The International Space Station raised its orbit today to get ready for an upcoming Russian resupply mission due to launch at the end of June....

Pennsylvania and Texas students have opportunities next week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Starfish Space, a startup founded by former Blue Origin and NASA engineers, is developing space tugs to help manage rapidly growing megaconstellations. SpaceNews

Aspiring astronauts now have until 18 June 2021 to submit an application for ESA's astronaut selection. The three-week extension comes as ESA welcomes Lithuania as a new Associate Member state.

A series of ground-based high-speed extraction tests confirm the readiness of a new and upgraded parachute and bag system for a high-altitude drop test in early June, part of critical preparations to keep the ExoMars 202...

A recent study claims to have found evidence for mushroom-like life forms on the surface of Mars. As it happens, these particular features are well known and were discovered by cameras aboard Nasa's Mars Exploration Rove...

When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity's first steps out of Africa. Such a birth would mark the beginning of a multi-planet civilization for the human species.

This month brings the "most super" of the year's supermoons, and on top of that, a total lunar eclipse. In other words, on May 26, 2021, the full moon will enter Earth's shadow--and, when the moon is not in our planet's ...

A pair of researchers at the University of Kent has found that tardigrades are able to survive impacts at speeds of up to 825 meters per second. In their paper published in the journal Astrobiology, Alejandra Traspas and...

Week in images: 17 - 21 May 2021 Discover our week through the lens

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

China's rover Zhurong, named after the mythological fire god, successfully touched down on Mars on May 14--the first time that China has successfully landed a rover on the red planet.