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Greg Wyler's audacious vision for connecting the world via a 720-satellite constellation has no successful precedent. But $500 million of initial investment capital and an impressive list of ground-floor partners go a lo...

Exploding stars may seem like an unlikely yardstick for measuring the vast distances of space, but astronomers have been mapping the universe for decades using these stellar eruptions, called supernovas, with surprising ...

The Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, which developed a leak in its vacuum container, is expected to be ready for shipment to the United States in early January. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The Merlin satellite, six years behind schedule and expected to cost 250 million euros, is slated to launch in 2020 on a European rocket. SpaceNews.com

Exploding stars may seem like an unlikely yardstick for measuring the vast distances of space, but astronomers have been mapping the universe for decades using these stellar eruptions, called supernovas, with surprising ...

The final approach to an asteroid has been practised for ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact Mission using a real spacecraft camera mounted on a robot arm....

When will the spaceflight industry be more like the cell phone indstury? Jeff Greason, co-founder of the private spaceflight company XCOR, talked with Space.com about the industry's current status.

The online Slooh Community Observatory is holding a series of shows about comets this week. The next webcasts -- about Europe's Rosetta mission and the Geminid meteor shower -- will occur Thursday (Dec. 10) and Sunday (D...

Though blue straggler stars (shown above in open star cluster NGC 3766) were first identified 62 years ago, astronomers have yet to converge on a solution for their odd appearance. The most popular explanation among seve...

2015 looks like a fantastic year for the Geminids. With the Moon just 3 days past new and setting at the end of evening twilight, conditions couldn’t be more ideal. Provided the weather cooperates! But even there we ge...

The X Prize Foundation announced Dec. 8 that it has verified a launch contract announced in October by Moon Express, making the company the second with an approved deal to participate in the $30 million Google Lunar X Pr...

Discover more about the importance of soil moisture as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world

Tuesday's briefing begins with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe committing Japan to the International Space Station through 2024, leaving the European Space Agency as the only partner not to formally agree to an extens...

In what, in retrospect, were some of his less controversial comments Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump slammed Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post. SpaceNews.com

Today: Orbital ATK (OA)-4 Launch: The Enhanced Cygnus spacecraft was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket on Sunday at 3:44pm CST. Sunday's launch sets the stage...

ASTROSAT is India's first dedicated science space mission which was launched on 28 September 2015. The Large Area X-ray Propositional Counter (LAXPC), designed and developed at TIFR, Mumbai, is one of the major payloads ...

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Our planet is heating up. The cause is in some ways simple: Humans add a lot of carbon dioxide to the air every year, about 40 billion tons of it. CO2 is a greenhouse gas: It lets sunlight through to heat the ground, but...

Mum's the word: The secretive X-37B space plane has winged its way past the 200 day mark, carrying out a classified agenda for the U.S. Air Force.

A new breed of giants raises questions about how the biggest galaxies arise --

A newly discovered early galaxy is the faintest ever found, and it's giving researchers a rare look into how ancient galaxies evolved.