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The high-resolution imaging radar for South Korea's Kompsat-6 Earth observation satellite will be built by LIG Nex1 and Airbus Defence and Space's German arm.

A peanut-shaped 1300 foot-long asteroid, named 2006 DP14, flew about 1.5 million miles away from Earth on February 10th, 2014. NASA scientists used the Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. to take radar images...

Exactly how the suit's plumbing got clogged is still a mystery.

In the last 20 years the search for Earth-like planets around other stars has accelerated, with the launch of missions like the Kepler space telescope. Using these and observatories on the ground, astronomers have found ...

Planet-watchers, some exciting news: you know how we keep talking about planet candidates, those planets that have yet to be confirmed, when we reveal stories about other worlds? That’s because verifying that the sligh...

Researchers using the Kepler Space Telescope have nearly doubled the number of planets known to humanity. Find out how they did it.

Four of the six instruments that will fly on the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series (GOES-R) were delivered to Lockheed Martin in Denver for integration onto the spacecraft bus this month. T...

A recent image from the International Space Station (ISS) shows in stark detail the utter lack of development in North Korea -- widely considered to be a "rogue" state -- compared to next-door neighbor South Korea, a rap...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth it is the closest supernova of its type ...

A US-made space suit that leaked water into a helmet and threatened to drown a European astronaut had malfunctioned before, NASA admitted on Wednesday.

Astronomers working with the Kepler space telescope just made a series of announcements that are fairly staggering: They have confirmed an additional 700+ exoplanets orbiting 300 other stars. Ninety-five percent of these...

NASA on Wednesday announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a "bonanza" of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission.

A powerful new technique for hunting alien planets yields a major new crop of new worlds. See how it helped NASA's Kepler Space Telescope confirm the existence of 715 new alien planets to nearly double the known list of ...

NASA has confirmed the existence of 715 newly discovered alien planets using the agency's Kepler Space Telescope, effectively doubling the number of exoplanets known today. See what the discovery means for life here.

A star (Kepler 296 system) about half the size of our Sun is harboring at least 5 planets. It is not yet known if the outermost planet, in the habitable zone (green area in video), called Kepler-296f, is a gas or water w...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Four of the six instruments that will fly on the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series (GOES-R) were delivered to Lockheed Martin in Denver for integration o...

NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system....

NASA: Kepler News and Features: NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.

A trove of 719 planets—all members of multiworld systems—joins the list of Kepler's finds   --

Did you see it? Earlier this week, we wrote about the spectacular conjunction of the planet Venus and the waning crescent Moon this week, which culminated in a fine occultation of the planet by our large natural satellit...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: One of the closest supernovas to go off in the last few decades is putting on a good show for telescopes on the ground and in space.

This is not an illusion per se, but I have to admit the first 30 seconds or so did freak me out. Weeeeeeeeird. Those are actually paper sculptures by Chinese artist Li Hongbo. The paper leaves in the stacks are connected...