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Researchers from the University of Liverpool are using strategic game theory to analyse the accumulation of space debris, and to assess removal efforts and mitigation measures to limit its growth.

What happens when Silicon Valley's work-until-you-drop-and-count-stock-options ethos meets skilled production-line labor armed with decades of case law? SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetized.

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Jeffrey Rogers: a rocket engineer on United Launch Alliance's Atlas program who's had a front row seat for some of the biggest launch-industry shakeups in rec...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The 42nd President of the United States sits down with host Neil deGrasse Tyson in the season premiere of Star Talk on National Geographic Channel on Oct. 25th, 2015. Here's a preview.

The company won a $784 million contract to build a long-range discrimination radar that would identify incoming missile threats from the Pacific region, primarily North Korea. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetized.

Several of the world's largest commercial satellite fleet operators on Oct. 22 made an 11th-hour attempt to persuade global governments not to allow terrestrial broadband networks to use spectrum currently reserved for s...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will sample an extraterrestrial ocean on Wednesday, Oct. 28, when it flies directly through a plume of icy spray coming from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The agency will hold a news teleconference a...

OSIRIS-Rex, the first American spacecraft ever aimed at snatching pristine samples from the surface of an asteroid and returning them to Earth for exquisite analysis by researchers world-wide with the most advanced scien...

I love a good coincidence. I got two emails within a few hours of each other, both from photographers, both linking to lovely videos they created of aurorae, the northern lights. Both are full of wonder and awe for these...

For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR)....

The strange shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been studying for more than a year, arose from the long-ago collision of two separate, slow-moving comets, re...

A tiny new camera being developed by NASA researchers could take 3D images from inside the brain, allowing surgeons to see brain tissue in more intricate detail than ever before and leading to faster, safer surgeries.

Latin for 'stupid' -- Em-Im vote on tap for Monday -- Planetary Resources raises $12M -- Arianespace seeks savings SpaceNews.com

For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency's Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle designed to meet the ch...

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe. Some of these galaxies formed ju...

Astronomers witness a white dwarf star ripping worlds to pieces in real-time --

"This is something no human has seen before," says lead author Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "We're watching a solar system get destroyed." The Death Star of Star Wars may be...

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe. Some of these galaxies formed ju...