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SSL will build JSat's Ku-band JCSat-15 and Ku-/Ka-band JCSat-16 telecommunications satellites.

Geologists who analyzed 40 meteorites that fell to Earth from Mars unlocked secrets of the Martian atmosphere hidden in the chemical signatures of these ancient rocks. Their study, published April 17 in the journal Natur...

NASA and SpaceX are marching forward towards a Friday, April 18 liftoff attempt for the Falcon 9 rocket sending a commercial Dragon cargo craft on the company’s third resupply mission to the International Space Station...

NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified a planet that is both similar in size to Earth and within the habitable zone of its sun --

It’s truly a “eureka” moment for Kepler scientists: the first rocky Earth-sized world has been found in a star’s habitable “Goldilocks” zone, the narrow belt where liquid water could readily exist on a planet...

The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory. The initial discovery, made by NASA's...

"This is really a tip-of-the-iceberg discovery," said study co-author Jason Rowe, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who spent a year analyzing data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope th...

NASA: Kepler News and Features: Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone" -- the range of distance from a star where liquid water...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument, or NESSI, will soon get its first "taste" of exoplanets.

I have some cautiously exciting exoplanets news: Astronomers have announced the discovery of a planet that is very nearly the same size as Earth and orbiting its star in the habitable zone--that is, at the right distance...

In a dim and faraway solar system, astronomers have for the first time discovered a rocky, Earth-sized planet that might hold liquid water -- a necessary ingredient for life as we know it....

A look at the five exoplanets most likely to host life as we know it, a list topped by the newfound Earth-size world Kepler-186f.

Scientists have discovered Kepler-186f, the first Earth-size alien planet in the habitable zone of its host star. The so-called 'Earth cousin' just might have liquid water and the right conditions to support life.

A rocky planet that could have liquid water at its surface orbits a star 490 light-years away.

Planet-hunters have new evidence of a planet, about 1.1x Earth's size, in orbit around another star. Kepler 186f, the outermost world of a 5-planet system, revolves about 3x closer to its star than Earth does to our Sun....

Don’t let them pass you by. Right now and continuing through July, the biggest and brightest asteroids will be running on nearly parallel tracks in the constellation Virgo and so close together they’ll easily fit in ...

Five volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula are seen erupting from space on one satellite pass by Landsat 8.

This Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, three former NASA astronauts will present new evidence that our planet has experienced many more large-scale asteroid impacts over the past decade than previously thought... three to te...

BNSL has sought government permission to buy satellite bandwidth directly from foreign players on grounds that ISRO was unable to give additional capacity on transponders of its choice.

While this image isn't as deep as the Hubble Deep Field, this 14-hour exposure by the Hubble Space Telescope shows objects around a billion times fainter than what can be seen with the human eyes alone. Astronomers say t...

We're now in week four of six dedicated to commissioning Rosetta's science instruments after the long hibernation period, with the majority now having completed at least a first initial switch on.

Talk about a high-flying career! Being a government astronaut means you have the chance to go into space and take part in some neat projects--such as going on spacewalks, moving robotic arms and doing science that resear...