NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

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A satellite that will make the first map of the boundary between the Solar System and interstellar space has been selected as part of NASA’s Small Explorer program. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA launched a satellite on Thursday night to explore the mysterious, dynamic region where air meets space. The satellite — called Icon, short for Ionospheric Connection ...

NASA has officially selected a new mission – the Ultraviolet Explorer, or UVEX. By scanning the skies in UV light, it will be able to study the hottest objects and fleeting events like supernovae, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's newest robotic explorer, Maven, rocketed toward Mars on Monday on a quest to unravel the ancient mystery of the red planet's radical climate change. The Maven spacecraft ...

Out in the depths of space, in our solar system and beyond, there exist a vast variety of worlds. There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to ...

On Dec. 16, 1962, NASA launched the Explorer 16 spacecraft to study micrometeoroids near Earth. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The mission would determine how likely it would be ...

NASA has shared footage showing astronauts using VR headsets to learn what it will be like aboard the Lunar Gateway space station. The Lunar Gateway will orbit the moon and be used mainly for getting ...

Whether you think it’s our fault or not, the simple fact of the matter is that the Earth is heating up—so much so that last summer’s heat caused surface melting along an unprecedented 97 percent of ...

On Dec. 16, 1962, NASA launched the Explorer 16 spacecraft to study micrometeoroids near Earth. The mission would determine how likely it would be for spacecraft to get damaged by the small space ...