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The Planetary Society's impressive solar sail experiment has re-entered Earth's atmosphere. Following its deployment in Earth orbit on May 20, LightSail-A deployed its solar sail on June 7.

Saturn's moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon's surface dissolves in a similar process that creates sinkhole...

Thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have detected what they believe is the long-sought radio emission coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of o...

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A senior U.S. Missile Defense Agency official expressed concern June 18 about a House spending bill that provides some 22 percent less funding than requested for a new kill vehicle and said the impact could spill over on...

This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel, was taken on June 6, 2015....

Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope's infrared vision to uncover the mysterious early formative years of quasars, the brightest objects in the universe. Hubble's sharp images unveil chaotic collisions of gal...

Can you believe it? We’re less than a month away from NASA’s New Horizons‘ historic flight past the dwarf planet Pluto. I’m sure you’ve got a zillion questions about the mission and want to hear how everything�...

Comparing this 'cosmic quartet' is akin to every day life of the Rock greats, where you find internal strife (black holes, tidal tails), struggles for stardom (star formation) and sexual encounters (galactic mergers).

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Scientists at UCL have observed how a widespread polar wind is driving gas from the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that t...

A European government-industry partnership using space-based lasers to speed data between Earth observation satellites and the ground using geostationary satellites as relay towers is facing potentially costly delays for...

Until recently, maps of the world's coral reefs had hardly changed from those Darwin made in the 19th century. Now, NASA satellites are making it possible to map reefs with a new level of detail.

After a 7-month hiatus, the revived European comet lander is nearly ready to resume work, expanding on our scientific understanding of the solar system.

In "The Astronaut Wives Club," debuting on Thursday (June 18) on the ABC TV network, viewers meet the women who stood behind America's first spacemen as the space age got off the ground. Part two of collectSPACE.com's in...

The 34-story tall Saturn 5 was the first vehicle humans ever used to land on the moon. Tyson's model was sent to him from Huntsville, Ala. --

The 34-story tall Saturn V was the first vehicle humans ever used to land on the moon. Tyson's model was sent to him from Huntsville, Alabama. --

UrtheCast, the Canadian company that runs commercial cameras on the space station, released June 17 the first HD video taken by one of its cameras there.

Students and educators from across the country will have the chance to be rocket scientists during Rocket Week, June 20-26 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

SES wants to reuse the first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the SES-9 satellite by September for a future, discounted SpaceX launch, and is awaiting the response of SpaceX. The post SpaceX Early-ado...

In our solar system, the objects with rainfall, rivers and oceans can be counted on two fingers: Earth, and Saturn's moon Titan. Both also share a thick atmosphere, rocky ground and plate tectonics.