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Planet Labs has raised $95 million from investors in its latest round of financing. The company designs and builds sharp-eyed Earth-observation satellites that are just 12 inches long by 4 inches wide by 4 inches tall.

Scientists don't yet know what to make of a white spot spotted on the dwarf planet Ceres, in the most recent batch of images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

The year of 2015 has been declared the International Year of Light (IYL) by the United Nations. Organizations, institutions, and individuals involved in the science and applications of light will be joining together for ...

Rapid ice loss in a remote Arctic ice cap has been detected by the Sentinel-1A and CryoSat satellites.

Moon Express has signed an agreement to use a former launch site at Cape Canaveral for building and testing its lunar lander spacecraft. The post Moon Express To Take Over Cape Canaveral Launch Site appeared first on Spa...

NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates 11 years on Mars Saturday (Jan. 24), and the robot's handlers are marking the occasion with a gorgeous panoramic photo that Opportunity took of its Red Planet environs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the creation of a massive new state corporation to absorb the duties of the Russian space agency and the holdings of the URSC. The post Putin Approves Roscosmos Merger with C...

Although the flyby of asteroid 2004 BL86 -- which is about 1,800 feet (550 meters) wide -- poses no foreseeable threat to Earth, it does present a rare opportunity to easily see a near-Earth asteroid, NASA officials say.

I want to alert you to a rather unusual event occurring this evening. Many of you already know about the triple shadow transit of Jupiter’s moons Io, Europa and Callisto. That’s scheduled for late tonight. Earlier, a...

NASA is planning to do science operations with the Curiosity rover using software co-developed with Microsoft for its new wearable technology, the HoloLens.

SES said it would jump into the market for offering global broadband communications from a low-orbiting constellation if the latest efforts announced by SpaceX, Google, Virgin Group and Qualcomm show signs of proving the...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers will update NASA officials next week on a revolutionary space telescope concept selected by the agency for study last June that could provide images up to 1,000 times sharper th...

SpaceX's Jan. 20 confirmation that Google and mutual-fund giant Fidelity Investments had invested a combined $1 billion in SpaceX set the stage for what could be a multi-year competition for capital and engineering resou...

As NASA continues to weigh two options for the robotic portion of its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), the agency's advisers say they are still unconvinced about the general ARM concept and its relevance to the long-term...

In the latest discovery, a multinational team of astronomers working on the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescopes found three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a sa...

Today: Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Transfer: Overnight, Robotic Flight Controllers used the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) with the Special Purpose Dexterous manipulator (SPDM) in order to extr...

Despite a desire by industry and policymakers for more details about NASA's long-term plans to send humans to Mars, agency officials say they have no immediate plans to revise a Mars mission architecture last updated in ...

It's showtime for Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 3 billion miles and is nearing the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. Sunday, it begins photographing the mysterious, unexplored, icy world once de...

British singer Sarah Brightman has started a gruelling 72-hour survival course in a snowy Russian forest to train for her upcoming role as a space tourist, Russia's cosmonaut training centre said Friday.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The equipment was installed aboard the International Space Station through a robotic handoff, the first time one robotic arm on station has worked in concert with a second robotic arm.

United Launch Alliance has completed the conceptual trade studies for its revamped Atlas 5 rocket and plans to unveil the design at the Space Symposium in April. The post ULA To Unveil Revamped Atlas 5 Details at Space S...

Wits scientists are part of a multinational team of astronomers working on the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescopes that have again demonstrated its excellent capabilities in searching for high-energy ga...