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New Horizons, which performed history's first flyby of Pluto this past July, took four photos of a 90-mile-wide (150 kilometers) Kuiper Belt object (KBO) called 1994 JR1 on Nov. 2, from a distance of 170 million miles (2...

A stunning new time-lapse video shows off the tireless movement of radio astronomy facilities used in searching for aliens across the universe.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered the most tenuous molecular gas ever observed. They detected the absorption of radio waves by gas clouds in front of bright radio s...

For scientists studying the impacts of space weather, one of the central mysteries of solar flares....

Alpha particles, as the nuclei of the helium atom are also called, play a decisive role in the formation of heavier elements....

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Persistence pays off: Despite thick clouds in the morning preventing me from seeing the Moon occult (pass directly in front of) Venus, a little more than an hour later I was able to catch Venus reappearing from behind th...

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar systems....

On Nov. 2nd, 2015, NASA's New Horizons' Pluto probe captured imagery of Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 1994 JR1 in orbit 3.3 billion miles from the sun.

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A Kanopus-ST satellite, launched aboard a Soyuz-2-1v on Dec. 5th, 2015, was supposed to go into polar orbit. But Russian media reports the bird failed to separate from its upper stage and will re-enter Earth's atmosphere...

Three military space programs requiring substantial investments in the coming years should remain on track. SpaceNews.com

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Look, I know Christmas is a ways off yet, but it's never too early for science. So why not do both? Computational biology postdoc (!) Tariq Abdulla has done just that in a very, very clever and wonderful way: He's taken ...

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) says a GPS 3 launch procurement was "prejudiced" against incumbent United Launch Alliance. SpaceNews.com

The U.S. Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which was signed into law by President Obama Nov. 25, is a victory for one industry sector that only recently returned to U.S. territory and another, fledgling sector that final...

Monday's briefing begins with word that Japan's Akatsuki probe has entered orbit around Venus, five years after its first attempt was botched by an engine malfunction, plus a look at a busy week ahead. SpaceNews.com

Every scientist has a story. Though not all have a specific moment they can point to that 'got them into science', they all have people or places or moments which inspired them, or gave them some critical insight, or jus...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently took the closest images ever of a distant Kuiper Belt object - demonstrating its ability to observe numerous such bodies over the next several years if NASA approves an extended mi...

The Gray Eagle is a critical part of the Army's ISR strategy, and the massive amounts of satellite bandwidth required for its mission of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance means a high-throughput satellite sol...

When NASA's Juno mission arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, new views of the giant planet's swirling clouds will be sent back to Earth, courtesy of its color camera, called JunoCam....

Digital electronic 'glass cockpits' have slow crept into spaceflight systems; replacing the old switches and knobs of the past. NASA's Fine Motor Skills experiment onboard ISS is looking at astronaut dexterity and how th...