If you could build an observatory on the Moon, what would you look for?

Imagine you could build an observatory on the Moon. What would you look for?

That was essentially the brief...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The freshly repaired and outfitted Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a new butterfly-shaped galaxy and wisps of stardust containing the elements of life being recycled int...

"Robotic missions are much cheaper and may provide more scientific information, but they don't catch the public imagination in the same way, and they don't spread the human race into space, w...

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Russia’s Roskosmos space agency are joining forces to try and shed some light on the poorly understood phenomenon referred to as ‘dark energy’. In 2012...

Tight budget quashes US space ambitions: panel
(by Staff Writers) Washington (AFP) Aug 19, 2009

US ambitions for manned space exploration have hit a major hurdle in the wake of sever...

NASA's Kepler Spies Changing Phases on a Distant World Exoplanet orbiting close to its sun.
Image credit: NASA NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosp...

Forty years after Apollo 11 touched down on the moon, plans are afoot to revisit the site to see how the remains have stood up to four decades of radiation and micrometeorite bombardment. One veh...

A series of mysterious observations of objects within the solar system could indicate the existence of exotic new physics.

At the end of the 19th century, astronomers discovered that the...

Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smiling after testing the stresses that space travelers may f...

Space Exploration Technologies -- or SpaceX, as it is usually called -- took a key step toward providing support for NASA and advancing private space travel on Monday: It successfully launche...

Newton's second law, F=ma, is one of the bedrocks of modern physics. Or at least it was until the early 1980s, when astronomers noticed that stars orbiting spiral galaxies don't obey it.

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The success of the Twitter feed from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is leading to a new generation of scientific communications.

Ever stared at a giant telescope and wondered what it's lookin...

Date: Nov. 16 +

Mission: STS-129
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis

New ion engine could reach Mars in 39 days. Last week, as the world celebrated the first lunar landin...

Beginning their return from the moon to an April 27, 1972, splashdown, Astronauts John Young, Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke captured about four seconds of video footage of an object that seeme...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created on October 1, 1958, "to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere and for other purpos...

Building on the success of the two rover geologists that arrived at Mars in January, 2004, NASA's next rover mission is being planned for travel to Mars before the end of...

NASA had launched another stunning space telescope: The Kepler Telescope is on the mission to survey more than 100,000 sun-like stars in  NASA’s quest to find Earth-like planets in our Milk...

President Obama's first budget blueprint continues to support the Bush administration's directive to finish the space station and retire the shuttle in 2010 and to return astronauts to the moon a...

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NASA May Have Found Ice on Mars

One minute it was there, the next it wasn't. What happened? Well, NASA scientists think that those mysterious dice-size crumbs of bright material might have been ice. And ice melts.

NA...