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Each mini satellite measures 16 inches and includes a micro camera and GPS. Aerospace engineer Shaun Whitehead is putting a $15,000 price tag on each ThumbSat's launch cost.

A once-bright cloud of electrons is being shocked back to life by a collision between two galaxy clusters.

An exciting new book, to be published this week, encourages students to think creatively when deciding to be astronauts.

Sometimes a whole bunch of different sky events happen over a very short period, giving skywatchers a chance to witness many unusual events in a few days. The next week or two is a case in point, with Uranus, Mercury, Ju...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

China is soliciting international participation in its future manned space station in the form of foreign modules that would attach to the three-module core system, visits by foreign crew-transport vehicles for short sta...

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter -- the first in a series of annual portraits of the solar system's outer planets.

Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter that show the continuing changes in its famous Great Red Spot. The images also reveal a rare wave structure in the planet's atmospher...

Under its Basic and Applied Aerospace technology (BAART) multiple-awards contract, NASA has awarded contracts to 11 companies to support research and technology development for aerospace systems at the agency's Langley R...

The new OPAL program allowed the Hubble Space Telescope to capture breathtaking images of Jupiter, revealing the slowdown in the shrinkage of its Great Red Spot and a rare feature that hasn't been spotted for decades.

The enormous, inky smudges of the Coalsack nebula blot out a patch of the brilliant Milky Way in a new image from the European Southern Observatory -- but someday, that murky realm will burst into light.

NASA's Launch Services Program has awarded a total of $17.1 million to three companies to launch bantam spacecraft -- which to date have generally had to hitch rides as secondary payloads -- to low Earth orbit.

Eclipse tetrads of doom. Mars, now bigger than the Full Moon each August. The killer asteroid of the month that isn't. Amazing Moons of all stripes, Super, Blood, Black and Blue...(...)Read the rest of Is This Month’s ...

The golden era of planet finding kicked into high gear with the launch of the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009. This spacecraft nestled into an Earth-trailing orbit, then fixed its eye on a small patch of sky -- and kept.....

The attitude control problem is preventing the Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) spacecraft's laser communications payload from being tested. In a brief statement, NASA said the Optical Communication...

Launching humans to Mars may not require a full tank of gas: A new MIT study suggests that a Martian mission may lighten its launch load considerably by refueling on the moon.

While new evidence suggests that Mars may harbor a tiny amount of liquid water, it exists today as a largely cold and arid planet. Three billion years ago, however, the situation may have been much different.

The company's $50 million settlement stemming from the October 2014 failure of Orbital ATK's Antares rocket widened its third-quarter loss. SpaceNews.com

Galaxies forming stars at extreme rates nine billion years ago were more efficient than average galaxies today, researchers find.

The case against Geoff Marcy must be a wake-up call to reform our field --

OneWeb has a new CEO -- Aerojet takes a loss -- Putin OKs Vostochny slip -- Pentagon may use more sole-sourced launch contracts SpaceNews.com

This is the story of the evolution of life on earth during one photon’s journey across the universe. Told by Saul Perlmutter who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the... --