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Following its 2017 launch, NASA's TESS mission should collect a wealth of information on new exoplanets, the majority of which should be available for follow-ups with ground-based telescopes.

Russia on Sunday successfully launched a Proton-M rocket carrying a satellite into orbit in the first such launch since one of the rockets fell back to Earth soon after liftoff in May.

India's maiden interplanetary voyager, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has transmitted a breathtaking new image eyeing the limb of Mars and its atmosphere against the blackness of space. The beautiful Martian image is onl...

NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (center), Expedition 40 commander; along with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov (bottom) and Oleg Artemyev, both flight engineers, are pictured in the Soyuz TMA-12M capsule which will re...

On September 25, Eastern time, NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore and his Expedition 41/42 crewmates, Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency, launched to the International Space Station aboa...

It’s been a while since SpaceUp Bremen was organized, but this very successful event came up at the SGAC Gala Dinner at the Ontarion Science Center last night, when a bunch of SpaceUp veterans discussed ideas and plans...

Russia's heavy-lift Proton rocket on Sept. 28 successfully returned to flight four months after a failure, placing a Russian military satellite into geostationary orbit, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, said.

If you've ever wondered what my nightmares are like, they pretty much go like this. On Sep. 27, a group of hikers were enjoying the fall weather on the Japanese volcano Mount Ontake. Suddenly, the volcano erupted, lettin...

Experimental evidence may one day provide physical proof as to whether or not black holes exist in the universe. But for now, theorectical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton at the University of North Carolina says the mat...