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Deep space missions in the future will take humanity farther and farther away from Earth. Last year NASA chose six United States companies to develop deep space habitat prototypes as part of the Next Space Technologies for...

Feeling like you've had enough of this planet? Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, is an attractive option for a space colony, according to new research. Amanda Hendrix of the Planetary Science Institute and Yuk Yung of the California...

From Eurekalert Only two more steps to ICE NINE!~ctm Stanford scientists discover how dense, extraterrestrial ice can form in just billionths of a second Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences...

By Irene Klotz, Space.com Contributor, Original Story on Space.com Here An artist’s impression of a nuclear power system, consisting of four separate fission reactors, for Mars habitats. Credit: NASA/Kilopower As NASA...

During a speech at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Vice President Pence made a bold promise that in the near future, the United States of America will send astronauts to both the moon and Mars...

Why have more space rocks been recovered in Morocco than in other countries of a similar size? It’s a great question for the world’s Asteroid Day  

Japan's experiment to clean up space junk earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies haven't given up on the problem yet...

Japan's experiment to clean up space debris earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies haven't given up on the problem yet...

Don't get your hopes up - scientists aren't making Pluto a planet again just yet. But the number of possible planets that we haven't discovered was recently bumped up to two. Last fall researchers published a study on the...

We humans have done a pretty good job of trashing the Earth all by ourselves, but we don't often stop to consider external threats - like asteroids. A 1908 asteroid explosion over Tunguska, Siberia ravaged 800 square miles,...

Our knowledge of the galaxy just expanded significantly, thanks to NASA's Kepler space telescope. The exoplanet-finding machine allowed the agency to add 219 new planet candidates to their growing list. 10 of those planets...

Humanity has never before touched the sun, but that's about to change. NASA is sending the Parker Solar Probe to the sun in 2018, and will get closer to the star's surface than any other spacecraft in history. They say the...

Souvenirs from humankind's missions to the Moon are extremely rare; NASA usually holds on to moon rocks or moon dust instead of allowing private owners to keep them...

A parallel universe may not just be a quirk of science fiction anymore; scientists think they may have found evidence for the idea of a universe other than our own...

Sending a deceased family member or loved one's ashes into space may seem like an impossibly grand gesture, but San Francisco-based Elysium Space makes it possible...