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Afghanistan becomes the latest emerging nation to move toward its own satellite capacity.

Meet Segue 2, the galaxy that is millions of times smaller than the Milky Way.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has managed to snap a photo of the other current lunar orbiter, LADEE, at the Moon.

The intergovernmental organization that coordinates European radio-frequency allocations has concluded that Wi-Fi devices cannot peacefully coexist with satellite radars in the same slice of radio spectrum, the head of t...

Regular readers of Universe Today will be well-acquainted with the photography and timelapse work of Randy Halverson. He’s just released his latest timelapse and in a word, it is breathtaking. Aurora, thunderstorms —...

Arianespace faces a repeat of early 2013's bottleneck for the Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: With precise timing, one moon-orbiting NASA spacecraft was able to take a picture of another.

Candida yeast, producer of diaper rash and thrush, was experimented on in the microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station in 2012. Principal investigator Sheila Nielson-Preiss talks about the findings...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A new NASA-funded effort aims to map crop fields worldwide, identify what's growing where, and determine whether it's irrigated or fed by rain.

Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds farther out, all eight planets following orbital paths unchanged since they formed....

It's one completed, 14 flights to go this year for United Launch Alliance and its fleet of Atlas and Delta rocket families.

ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth....

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds farther out, all eight planets following orbital paths unch...

For the first time, scientists have created a map of the surface of a failed star. The map shows the weather on the surface of WISE J104915.57-531906.1B (called Luhman 16B for short), the nearest brown dwarf to Earth.

Not quite massive enough to ignite nuclear fusion, brown dwarfs may be as common as regular stars in the universe. Here's a look at how brown dwarfs may work in a SPACE.com infographic.

Astronomers have come to realize that the asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter are incredibly diverse in size and composition, implying that they were scattered here and there by migrating planets long ago...

Brown dwarf stars exist somewhere between giant gas planets, such as Jupiter and Saturn, and faint cool stars. See photos and images of brown dwarfs across the universe in this SPACE.com gallery.

ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J1049...

European Southern Observatory astronomers have mapped the mood of the closest brown dwarf star to the Sun. By comparing atmospheres of stars, scientists may learn to predicting solar weather and our Sun's long term clima...

To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies of core,...

ESO Top News: ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features...

NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson shared her experiences on the International Space Station with elementary school students in her home state on Jan. 23.