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In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age-old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as...

The U.S. Senate approved a bill Aug. 4 that extends two key provisions of commercial launch law as well as authorizes operations of the International Space Station beyond 2020, but the bill will have to be reconciled wit...

In what scientists say signals a paradigm shift in interplanetary science, NASA has selected a shoebox-size mission to search for water ice and other resources from above the surface of the moon.

The extent to which galaxies consume one another has been revealed in research. Findings from the study help to explain how galaxies such as the Milky Way were formed.

An eye-poppingly 'EPIC' view of the sunlit far side of the Moon transiting the sunlit side of Earth was recently captured by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera from one million miles away. "Wow!" –...

NASA's springboard for discovery, innovation and deep space exploration has a new chief. The agency has named Kirk Shireman as the new manager of its International Space Station (ISS) Program, based at NASA's Johnson Spa...

NASA is asking Congress for another half billion dollars to pay Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station.

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illumin...

A team of astronomers led by Caltech has discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away--a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being fed cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang. Using the ...

The newfound galaxy, known as EGSY8p7, lies about 13.2 billion light-years from Earth -- meaning astronomers are now seeing the mass of stars as it existed just 600 million years or so after the Big Bang that created the...

The mobile satellite services operator said it has yet to receive customer complaints about the problem and has not ordered a recall. The post Inmarsat Finds Defect in IsatPhone 2 Satellite Handsets appeared first on Spa...

Study suggests planetary rings have a universal particle distribution Study solves 'amazing' mathematical inverse cubes law of particle size distribution

NASA formally notified Congress Aug. 5 that it is issuing a $490 million extension of an existing contract to purchase Soyuz seats from the Russian space agency, saying that it was forced to do so because of cuts in the ...

On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Red Planet to a new generation of explorers, inviting the public...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden sent a letter to Congress Wednesday informing members that, due to continued reductions in the president's funding requests for the agency's Commercial Crew Program over the past several...

A new, large-scale computer simulation has shown for the first time that large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of the universe.

EchoStar will launch a broadband communications satellite on an Atlas, not an Ariane, next year. The post EchoStar Books a Commercial Atlas 5 for Jupiter 2 appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

NASA officials, to their credit, and despite catcalls from the outside, are not rushing into a plan -- instead they are developing what they call an "evolvable Mars campaign." The post Op-ed | Weighing NASA's Evolutionar...

NASA's Swamp Works development team wants to put drones on Mars, distant moons and the airless, sunless landscapes on asteroids.

Thirty-two exoplanets will get new names that were chosen in an open vote by the general public. The naming announcement will come next week (Aug. 11) at an international meeting of astronomers.

Two high-orbiting U.S. Air Force space surveillance satellites that launched in July 2014 are expected to reach initial operational capability by the end of September, the service said. The post More Testing for U.S. Spa...

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