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"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry" – this famous paraphrase of Scottish poet Robert Burns sometimes sums up human ingenuity. That is exactly what happened when a county in Washington State decided to r...

Last year we reported on how the Roman Space Telescope's backers hoped it would be able to detect rogue planets using a technique called "microlensing". Now, a team led by Iain McDonald, then at the University of Manches...

With NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough monitoring aboard the International Space Station, a SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Docking Adapter on the station's space-facing port of the Harmony mo...

For the tiny few of us who can afford to pay for a trip in space, Blue Origin is already ramping up its marketing against competitor Virgin Galactic.

Students from three states will hear from astronauts from three different countries aboard the International Space Station next week.

Mysterious flares of X-rays from Jupiter's auroras suggest that the giant planet's "northern lights" may possess unexpected similarities with those of Earth, a new study finds.

NASA has awarded a contract worth $935 million to Northrop Grumman to build and integrate the first habitation module for the lunar Gateway. SpaceNews

Catch the trio above the western horizon about 45 minutes after sunset.

Wally Funk, a pioneer in the field of aerospace and a member of the Mercury 13 program, will be accompanying Jeff Bezos to space this month! The post Wally Funk From the Mercury 13 Will be Joining Jeff Bezos on his Fligh...

A research team co-led by UCL has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes.

The 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter's X-ray auroras has been solved. For the first time, astronomers have seen the entire mechanism at work - and it could be a process occurring in many other parts of the Univ...

It's hard to miss a flashlight beam pointed straight at you. But that beam viewed from the side appears significantly dimmer. The same holds true for some cosmic objects: Like a flashlight, they radiate primarily in one ...

The final space shuttle mission, which launched 10 years ago this week, almost didn't happen.

Spacewalks are a relatively rare occurrence, and they normally draw at least a moderate amount of media coverage. So when a team of Chinese astronauts performed a spacewalk outside of their newly launched space station f...

Celebrations in Indiana and Kansas are marking the 60 years since Virgil "Gus" Grissom, the second U.S. astronaut, made the short hop into space.

Hackers linked to North Korea broke into the network of a South Korean aerospace company last month that holds confidential rocket propulsion technologies developed for the nation's first indigenous space launch vehicle ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, have finalized a contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway, which will be a critical way station and outpost in orbit around the Moon as pa...

A new instrument that will fly to the moon has been delivered to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Scientists are set to uncover the secrets of a rare meteorite and possibly the origins of oceans and life on Earth, thanks to Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) funding.

Planetary scientists estimate that each year, about 500 meteorites survive the fiery trip through Earth's atmosphere and fall to our planet's surface. Most are quite small, and less than 2% of them are ever recovered. Wh...

As Congress prepares NASA's budget for fiscal year 2022, it has a valuable opportunity to ensure that America remains the world's leader in sustainable space exploration by continuing to fund the development of advanced ...

Using measurements from ESA's Earth Explorer Swarm mission, scientists have developed a new tool that links the strength and direction of the magnetic field to the flight paths of migrating birds. This is a huge step for...