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A new map of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang, completed in spring of 2013 by Europe's Planck satellite team refines our understanding of the Universe's composition and evolution, an...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Planetary scientists looking to use high-altitude balloons for their observations need highly stable systems to track their targets. Such a system now exists.

If they need to consult U.S. or other non-European authorities about the hardware's export or eventual use, they risk losing credibility in their effort to position themselves as a U.S. alternative.

The 2014 Winter Olympic Games launched in Sochi, Russia, Friday (Feb. 7) using the torch that flew to the International Space Station. The space-themed spectacle, which took place as part of an elaborate opening ceremony...

Science@NASA: California is experiencing a historic drought--by some measures the deepest in more than a century. NASA researchers are investigating the underlying causes and practical consequences for people living in t...

There are few things as important on, and especially off, Earth as breathable, quality air. When air quality is compromised, we often don't have seconds to spare, which is why development of the Multi-Gas Monitor is so i...

NASA is known for hi-tech wizardry when it comes to spacecraft, but some of its technology has floated back down to earth and made it into objects we use everyday. Here are five that surprised us! --

Aerojet Rocketdyne could lay off as many as 225 employees by March as it streamlines operations.

A research team has shed more light on how Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine could orbit two stars which are themselves bound together in an orbital dance --

Continuing problems with an Exelis-built payload will delay the delivery of the first of the GPS 3 next-generation navigation satellites.

This north-looking space wallpaper, acquired on Jan. 4, 2014, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the Sochi Olympic Park Coastal Clus...

In the storied history of the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission, January 2014 will likely be remembered as one of the most memorable months of all.

A probe orbiting Mercury has beamed more than 200,000 images to ground controllers on Earth, and it's still going strong.

For much of the contiguous United States this winter has been marked by perpetual ice, snow as well as the now infamous polar vortex. Such conditions might make even the most committed stargazer think twice before ventur...

National sovereignty, security and the creation of domestic jobs will be the key drivers behind Canada's future space activities.

Dual payloads to broadcast television and broadband signals for Asia Broadcast Satellite and French and Italian security forces rocketed into orbit on an Ariane 5 rocket Thursday on Arianespace's landmark 250th launch.

This image, right here, shows us the value of long-term observations. It’s a composite of pictures taken between 1999 and 2012 from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Telescope. Put 9.5 days’ worth of observations together, and ...

The new world of tele-anesthesiology and tele-surgery is practiced in high altitude Utah by MarsCrew134. The crew's executive and medical officer Dr. Susan Jewell discusses.

We at Universe Today often hear theories purporting that Einstein is wrong, and perhaps one of the most common things cited is the speed limit for light used in his relativity theories. In a vacuum, light goes close to 3...

Under the new agreement, ESA and EDA will test the use of UAVs for environmental monitoring and maritime surveillance beyond the line of sight of ground antennas to manage the UAVs' performance.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Four Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors or EXIS instruments that will fly aboard four of NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R or GOES-R Series space...

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket placed commercial and military telecommunications satellites into orbit in the first of what operator Arianespace expects could be its busiest-ever year.