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The launch of 11 satellites on a new-version Falcon 9 rocket will complete the machine-to-machine messaging provider's second-generation constellation. SpaceNews.com

Spacewalking astronauts encountered leaking ammonia and minor glove damage while performing plumbing work outside the International Space Station on Friday, but NASA said neither issue posed an immediate threat.

American astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren will venture out of the International Space Station this morning (Nov. 6) for the second spacewalk mission in two weeks -- and you can watch their excursion online as it...

Observations of a strangely dimming star thought to possibly host an alien megastructure have not turned up signs of communications from an alien civilization, although the chatter may simply be too faint to hear.

Two American astronauts took a marathon spacewalk on Friday, spending nearly eight hours outside the International Space Station on a truly out-of-this-world plumbing job.

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Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Mike Massimino, Former Astronaut; Senior Advisor for Space Programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum; Full-time instructor at Columbia University; Human-machine systems, s...

Thanks to publicly available orbital tracking data, coupled with the candor of commercial satellite operator Intelsat, the world now has a fresh and alarming example of Russia's irresponsible satellite behavior. SpaceNew...

Human beings will always be explorers and we've already taken baby steps out into the solar system.

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Shooting the moon is fun, easy and very rewarding. This is because the moon is so bright and appears so large in the sky that even a small telescope can reveal a lot of interesting surface details. Here's how to do it.

Astrophotographers Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre provide tips for photographing the moon through telescopes.

NASA has announced it will begin accepting applications for its next class of astronauts, luring candidates with a chance to "advance a future human mission to Mars." But a new astronaut needn't travel to the Red Planet ...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to conduct a "cosmic archaeological dig" at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have uncovered the blueprints of our galaxy's early construction phase....

Brushing off any last-minute nerves, Britain's first astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) insists he is more concerned about his out-of-this-world Christmas dinner than potential disaster.

A team of astronomers working at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA, TIFR), Pune have discovered, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), an extremely rare galaxy of gigantic size. This galaxy--lo...

Walt Disney Japan has released the latest trailer. It cuts in previously unreleased footage into the full length trailer released in October 2015. The movie premieres in the United States on Dec. 18th.

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Will Pomerantz: a converted planetary scientist who now gets to come up with new business ideas for Virgin Galactic. SpaceNews.com

The mobile satellite services provider suggests it is paying almost all of the cost of connecting 150 Lufthansa aircraft to the company's Ka-band passenger broadband service. SpaceNews.com

The moon is a great target for stargazers just starting out. But there are some tricks to observing the moon with a telescope or binoculars. Here are some tips to start moongazing with a telescope.

Two astronauts are ready to finish a cooling system repair job that was started three years ago on the outside of the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren will exit the U.S. Quest a...

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