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We know that our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but what causes this growth remains a mystery. The most likely explanation is that a strange force dubbed "dark energy" is driving it. Now a new astronomica...

Each year, astronomers worldwide discover over 1000 new asteroids or other space rocks that could strike our planet. And if one is spotted heading towards Earth, experts working in ESA and national emergency offices need...

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who is the current commander of the International Space Station, has set a new record for most time spent in space, with a total of 803 days, Russian space agency said Tuesday.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) President José Raimundo Braga Coelho have signed agreements to further research into heliophysics and space weather and to enhance global climate study ...

Jean-Jacques Dordain's 12 years at the helm of the European Space Agency come to an end June 30. The post Editorial | A Tough Act To Follow appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

See what's up in the night sky for July 2015, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

Over about 4 hours on June 18th 2015, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a developing flare and coronal mass ejection.

In late May 2015, the highest volcano in the Galapagos Islands erupted for the first time in 33 years. The explosive eruption at Wolf volcano on Isabela Island sent volcanic gases and ash roughly 15 kilometers (50,000 fe...

The destruction of an unmanned rocket on Sunday comes at a tricky time for NASA and the International Space Station --

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog.

Tuesday lasts a little bit longer--by a second.

The U.S. Air Force in April rejected a congressional request to consider holding a competition for the launch of a missile warning satellite, saying the contract will go to its incumbent launch services provider, United ...

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of an unpiloted Russian resupply ship to the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, who is making final preparations for his launch next month on his first mission to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 8 to 9 a.m. EDT Tues...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Are you ready for July? The big ticket space event of the year is coming right up, as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to make its historic flyby targeting a pass 12,500 kilometres (7,750 miles) from the surface of ...

Right now, Pluto is about 25 pixels across in the New Horizons space probe's long-range camera. In a week it'll be 50 pixels across. A few days later it'll be well to 100 ... and then it'll grow by the hour. What will we...

Why do so many comets have a two-lobed, "rubber ducky" shape? It's the result of gentle collisions and mergers, new simulations reveal.

Spire, a company developing a constellation of cubesats to provide weather data to commercial and government customers, announced June 30 it has raised $40 million to complete work on the satellites and begin launching t...

You’re probably as eager as I am for new images of Pluto and Ceres as both New Horizons and Dawn push ever closer to their respective little worlds. Recent photos, of which there are only a few, reveal some wild new fe...

A Purdue University study shows that targeting plants with red and blue LEDs provides energy-efficient lighting in contained environments, a finding that could advance the development of crop-growth modules for space exp...

The history of the leap second reveals a curious pattern of decreasing frequency since its adoption 43 years ago --