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On 15 June 2015, V404 Cygni (V404 Cyg), a binary system comprising a sun-like star orbiting a black hole, woke up. A huge outburst of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum 'lit up' the sky. The last such outburst wa...

NASA is currently spending money on its key exploration programs at a rate that assumes Congress will approve a budget increase in the next month, a move that could delay some efforts should the additional funds not mate...

Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A is seen after the Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with Cygnus spacecraft onboard, suffered a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at NASA's Wallops Fligh...

ESA's Mars Express has shed new light on the Red Planet's rare ultraviolet aurora by combining for the first time remote observations with in situ measurements of electrons hitting the atmosphere....

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might ...

Twelve years ago, Britain revolutionized the process of purchasing military satellite telecommunications by outsourcing it all to the private sector. Now it appears about to return to conventional procurement for its fol...

NASA has once again delayed the award of contracts to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station, this time not only pushing the announcement of contracts until as late as the end of January 2016 but als...

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might ...

New results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft suggest that Mars lost most of its atmosphere -- which had kept the Red Planet relatively warm and allowed it to support liquid surface water -- to space about 3.7 billion years a...

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

On Oct. 6th, 1995, the reported discovery of jupiter-like exoplanet 51 Pegasi b catalyzed serious scientific quests for another Earth-like world.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will not publish quality standards for commercial weather data until at least the end of the year, a senior NOAA official said here Nov. 4. SpaceNews.com

The European Space Agency's ExoMars 2018 rover was tested in the Netherlands on Oct. 28th and 29th, 2015. The rover was commanded to roll off its mock-up landing platform by mission controllers located at their command c...

Co-author of more than 800 scientific papers, Don Lincoln pursues a range of elusive questions, from the nature of dark matter to the structure of quarks and leptons.

NASA will provide details of key science findings from the agency's ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 2 p.m. EST today, Thursday, Nov. 5 in the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington...

Less than 20 years ago the world learned that the universe is expanding ever faster, propelled by dark energy. The discovery was made possible by Type Ia supernovae; extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar in brigh...

In 1920's Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, showed that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, known as Hubble's law. Hubble's law is taken as the first observational basis f...

Now available is the October 21, 2015 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speakers were Frank Eichstadt (MS Space Architecture) and Dan Jones (Geentech Motors) who discussed "High-Efficiency Elec...

Superpowers are flexing military muscles in orbit, but the U.S. can lead the world away from a planetary disaster --

Working with scientists in 14 countries across Europe, ESA is developing a warning network that will help protect us from the effects of our Sun's activity.

Space.com featured the art of mathematician and cosmologist Ed Belbruno in a gallery showing at New York's Café Minerva -- and, next door, hosted a panel discussion probing science, art and the origin of inspiration.