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NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission team deployed its spacecraft's large antenna on Feb. 24th, 2015. The mission will track and map soil moisture on Earth.

A recently launched NASA satellite has just deployed its giant antenna in preparation to collect unprecedented data about soil moisture around the world.

A newfound cosmic object may be a long-sought missing link that could help flesh out the black hole family tree. NGC-2276-3c, which lies about 100 million light-years from Earth, appears to be an intermediate-mass black ...

For years, Arlin Crotts has been an iconoclast among his peers in the world of lunar science. His beliefs that the moon must have water and could possibly supply all the elements necessary to sustain life were considered...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: This week marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations for the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Ever since President George W. Bush's decision to retire the space shuttles in the aftermath 2003's Columbia disaster, NASA's human spaceflight program has been adrift. --

It has long been assumed that the size of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy's core is intimately related to the number of stars that galaxy contains -- but it might not be that simple.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Diamantino Sforza is a gentleman farmer in the Italian tradition competing with his father for the "firsts" of the season.

NewSat reported a sharp drop in revenue and deepening losses for the six months ending Dec. 31 and gave investors little hope for relief in the near term. The post NewSat's Losses Deepen as Creditors Circle appeared firs...

Brazilian astronomers said Friday they had found two star clusters forming in a remote part of our Milky Way galaxy where such a thing was previously thought impossible.

Why is Taurus the Bull so mad? He's being chased by bees! The Pleiades, that is. Look for Taurus, the Pleiades and many other celestial sights in the Northern Hemisphere during the winter months.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) (...)Read the rest of Weekly Space Hangout – February 27, 2015: In Memory of Leonard Nimoy (348 words) © Fraser for Universe To...

Solar systems with many planets are more likely to feature the circular orbits that could foster intelligent life --

Nimoy, the original Spock, got involved in real space science with NASA --

NASA Breaking News: NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is set to lift off at 10:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 12 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a United Launch Al...

The newly merged company Orbital ATK is aiming to restart launches of their "upgraded Antares" rocket in March 2016 using completely new engines, following the catastrophic explosion on Oct. 28, 2014 that destroyed the r...

Officials with NASA and its independent safety panel told a House committee Feb. 27 that the agency is now starting to share technical information about its commercial crew contracts after that panel recently complained ...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Geospatial imagery and services provide DigitalGlobe on Feb. 27 said its WorldView-3 satellite is the key to driving growth both with the company's dominant customer, the U.S. government, and in the global commercial mar...

Actor Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed the beloved Vulcan 'Spock' on the original "Star Trek" TV show, died today (Feb. 27) at 83 years old.

True color look at the contiguous US from Suomi NPP on 26 February 2015. Larger image...

The Curiosity robot confirms methane in Mars' atmosphere which may hint that life may have existed. An article published in Science confirms the existence of methane fluctuations in the atmosphere of Mars, as a result of...