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An Ariane 5 lifted off tonight from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and delivered two telecom satellites into their planned orbits.

How would you like to see one of the most famous comets with your own eyes? Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko plies the morning sky, a little blot of fuzzy light toting an amazing visitor along for the ride -- the Rosetta ...

Who left the deep scars on the heart of our Milky Way? In their hunt for elusive clues that might reveal the culprit, an international team of astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has been...

The 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater emerged as the frontrunner among 30 or so potential locales during the second landing-site workshop for NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission.

For the last few months, rumors have circulated that a big asteroid will slam into Earth near Puerto Rico between Sept. 15 and Sept. 28, wreaking widespread destruction. Don't believe the hype.

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Europe's Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket on Aug. 20 launched two commercial telecommunications satellites in the vehicle's 67th co...

A European rocket launched into space from a South American spaceport Thursday (Aug. 20) on a mission to deliver two new communications satellites into orbit for a pair of telecommunications giants.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

"The Martian" star Matt Damon, director Ridley Scott and Andy Weir, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, on Tuesday (Aug. 18).

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., maker of Japanese soft drink Pocari Sweat, wants to put a "time capsule" can on the lunar surface. They've teamed with startups Astroscale and Astrobotic to start The Lunar Dream Capsule Projec...

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. Having delayed the award of follow-on Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contracts until at least November, NASA is consideri...

Star surfaces boil with brightness variations expressible as audio waveforms. Turkish astronomer Burak Ulaş has found that star Y Cam of the Algol eclipsing binary 'sings' on a diminished whole tone scale, which he used...

Ten years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, NASA is building a flock of eight microsatellites to help accurately predict the path and severity of hurricanes.

Two experiments on Earth are helping to shine light on the hidden characteristics of dark energy and dark matter, elusive phenomena that make up nearly 95 percent of the universe but remains hidden from direct detection.

Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year to gather powerful new evidence in support o...

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research:

NASA's on a Journey to Mars but it won't happen overnight. NASA's path for the human exploration of Mars begins in low-Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station, then onto deep space with the asteroid redirect m...

As Scott Kelly sails on through his year-long mission, the veteran NASA astronaut has beamed down several videos from his perch on the International Space Station.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

In a series of media opportunities Wednesday, Aug. 26 through Friday, Aug. 28, NASA experts will present an up-to-date global outlook on current conditions and future projections of sea level rise.

SpaceNews.com - Daily news coverage of the business and politics of the global space industry. In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Andrew Rush: one-time space-patent geek and current president o...

This new image of powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory reveals some of the most intense processes taking place at the centre of our galaxy...