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NASA funded an early-stage concept aiming to show new techniques for mapping minerals on the moon, asteroids or Martian moons.

Venus is sinking lower into the sunset this September, but the brilliant Evening Star won't be gone for long.

Astronomers have found two clouds of hydrogen near the Whirlpool galaxy that appear to contain almost no stars. The clouds, discovered with China's FAST radio telescope, each contain roughly 3 million times the mass ...

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket made history today (Sept. 5), becoming the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from European soil.

Forget the AT-AT, the AT-ST is my favorite Star Wars land vehicle. Now, this massive Lego Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series AT-ST is $39 off at Amazon, its lowest ever price.

On Episode 226 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Rainer Zitelmann to discuss the history of capitalism and how it applies to our future in space.

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a prediction that transformed our understanding of black holes. Black holes, he showed, are not truly black: They slowly lose energy through a quantum process now known as Hawking radiation....

On Sept. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 began its epic journey through deep space with a glorious morning launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Here's why it mattered.

The planet Venus is arguably the most mischievous planetary body in the solar system. This is because like Saturns largest moon, Titan, Venus is shrouded in a thick atmosphere that cant be viewed with optical telescopes ...

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