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An international team of researchers, with the assistance of amateur astronomers, have discovered a unique binary star system: the first known such system where one star completely eclipses the other. It is a type of two...

A mysterious mountain in the middle of a moat on Pluto's biggest moon Charon, has captivated and baffled scientists leading NASA's New Horizons mission which made history when it became the first spacecraft to visit our ...

On July 17, 1975, NASA astronauts aboard an Apollo spacecraft linked up with cosmonauts in their Soyuz capsule. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project meetup showed that two different space vehicles could dock in orbit, but it ha...

The New Horizons spacecraft did what it was meant to do. It explored the unexplored dwarf planet Pluto. So, now what?

Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto's big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, scientists said Friday, three days after humanity's first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet.

A vast, craterless plain of Plutonian ice no more than 100 million years old and centered amidst Pluto's big 'heart' was unveiled in spectacular new imagery taken by NASA’s resounding successful New Horizons mission, d...

The engimatic flat region, which researchers have dubbed "Sputnik Planum," is broken into cell-like blocks and harbors mysterious pitted terrain and dark streaks of material that may have been deposited by Plutonian wind...

ESA approved nearly $4.6 billion in contracts to build Europe's Ariane 6 rocket, its launch base and a more-powerful version of the Vega small launcher. The post ESA Approval Paves Way for Ariane 6, Vega-Contracts appear...

We get a whole new appreciation for New Horizons’ Pluto close-ups when we compare them with pics taken by even the best Earthbound telescopes --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

If there's one thing we always find when we see a solar system object up close for the first time, it's something surprising. Or somethings. Or lots and lots of somethings. New images and data were released today from th...

Some underserved Virginia patients were among the first to be officially helped by an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), more commonly known as a drone, during research flights to a medical clinic in Wise County Friday.

"Buckyball" molecules appear to be commonplace across the universe, and may even be sources of organic molecules that are key to the origin and evolution of life, a new study suggests.

New Horizons has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto -- the planet's atmosphere being stripped away by the solar wind and lost to space....

In the latest data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic...

Scientists working with NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have observed Pluto's atmosphere as far as 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) above the surface of the planet, demonstrating that Pluto's nitrogen-rich atmosphere is qui...

ILS has begun marketing Russia's new Angara rocket, adding the light-lift Angara 1.2 to its commercial portfolio for launches starting in 2017. The post ILS Now Marketing Small Angara Variant appeared first on SpaceNews....

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

Satellite component builder Com Dev of Canada and partner Hisdesat of Spain are selling 40-45 percent of their jointly owned exactEarth space-based maritime surveillance company in an initial stock offering expected to y...

A Russian military satellite launched in March has made at least 11 close approaches to the rocket upper stage that released it into orbit. The post Maneuvering Russian Satellite Has Everyone's Attention appeared first o...

Planetary Resources has launched its first spacebound test of asteroid mining technology on July 16, beginning a 90-day mission to test vital technologies.

A final decision on an extended mission for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, one that would take it past a small Kuiper Belt object (KBO), won't come for more than a year, although the project will be taking steps in the ...