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The largest meteorite in the Americas, along with some 30 related craters, is located on farmland in Argentina, but the specimens are being illegally taken --

On it's way over the limb, as the Sun rotates, sunspot AR2365 popped a massive coronal mass ejection into space on 18 June 2015. The cloud of charged plasma was not, fortunately, moving along the line between Earth and S...

The prime contractor for Europe's Italian-led Vega small-satellite launcher said 2015 will be the year when the company finds a strategic owner and helps settle the broader European space-launch puzzle. The post Vega Pri...

The moon is engulfed in a permanent but lopsided dust cloud that increases in density when annual events like the Geminids spew shooting stars, according to a new study led by University of Colorado Boulder....

On Tuesday (June 16), NASA's Cassini mission had an EXTREMELY close encounter with one of Saturn's cratered moons, Dione.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope's infrared vision, astronomers have unveiled some of the previously hidden origins of quasars, the brightest objects in the universe....

'The Astronaut Wives Club,' ABC's new 10-episode drama about the women behind the United States' first spacemen, has lifted off. The premiere, aptly titled "Launch," spanned two years of NASA events in one hour. How clos...

Check out our own Fraser Cain and the scientists from the New Horizon team as they discuss the imminent arrival of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto! Watch the hangout here and subscribe to the New Horizons YouTube Ch...

NASA commercial partner SpaceX currently is targeting Sunday, June 28, for the launch of its seventh cargo delivery to the International Space Station under the agency's Commercial Resupply Services contract. NASA Televi...

Talk about galactic drama. Some of the strangest galaxies in the universe congregate in groups similar to this one, spied by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The U.S. Defense Department has told a consortium of three companies, including propulsion provider Aerojet Rocketdyne, that it does not own the design or production rights to United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket, a r...

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft will reach a major milestone June 23, when it completes its 60,000th orbit since arriving at the Red Planet in 2001.

Now available is the May 27, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speaker was Dan Lester (U. of Texas) who discussed "Exploration Telepresence: Value and Challenges....

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NASA's Mars Cube One (MarCo) consists of two communication relay cubesats that will launch along with the InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander.

Despite warnings from NASA that any cuts to commercial crew funding would delay the program, Senate appropriators slashed nearly $350 million from the agency's request because they believed the program was already suffer...

Our galaxy shimmered over the national park in Arizona on June 20, 2011. Photography specs: sequence of 35 second exposures with Canon XSi, ISO 1600 and Nikon 16mm F/2.8 fisheye. Tracked during sequence with vertically-o...

Space Systems Loral (SSL) will build the BSat-4a direct-to-home television broadcast satellite for Broadcast Satellite System Corp. (B-Sat) of Japan. The post SSL Nabs Contract for BSat-4a appeared first on SpaceNews.com...

Former NASA astronauts Jeff Ashby and Nicholas Patrick explain the experience amongst stunning imagery of the flight of the Blue Origin Rocket.

Supermassive black holes lurk at the center of every large galaxy. These cosmic behemoths can be millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun....

The International Space Station got an orbital boost this morning after a docked Russian resupply craft fired its engines for four minutes and eight seconds. One more reboost is scheduled for July 10 when the station wil...