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The Event Horizon Telescope, which will take high-resolution images of black holes, is nearing full-scale operations, with nine telescopes around the world expected to be contributing to the project by 2018.

The U.S. Air Force released a formal solicitation for companies to demonstrate their ability to build the next batch of GPS 3 satellites. SpaceNews.com

The next NASA astronaut to fly to the space station will use his unique position -- in both time and space -- to share the history of the outpost. Jeff Williams will devote part of his six-month stay to highlighting how ...

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Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest:Elizabeth S. Sexton-Kennedy, who works at FermiLab as Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Offline Coordinator. CMS (at CERN/LHC) is a particle detector that is designed to see a wide rang...

Four zinnia plants on the International Space Station are sickly or dead after mold was discovered in the Veggie experiment facility in late December, according to NASA.

A major step has been taken to coordinate U.S. agencies and intergovernmental efforts to respond to future near-Earth objects that threaten Earth.

Proud parents chart the growth of their children, but astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have taken on a bigger task: charting the growth of our own Milky Way....

Major improvements to methods used to process observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have yielded an expanded, higher-quality set of data that allows astronomers to produce the most detailed census of t...

The intense radiation around Jupiter has shaped every aspect of the Juno mission, especially Juno's orbit. Data shows that there is a gap between the radiation belts that encircle Jupiter, and Jupiter's cloud tops. Juno ...

"X" marks the spot of some intriguing surface activity in the latest picture of Pluto returned from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft....

A high-flying balloon captured some amazing video footage of the Quadrantid meteor shower, showing dazzling views of "shooting stars" as they burned up in Earth's atmosphere on Monday (Jan. 4).

Here is a chart of some of the must-see spectacles that the night sky has to offer in 2016.

NASA has added two potentially habitable moons of Saturn to the list of possible destinations for its next billion-dollar planetary science mission. SpaceNews.com

An ancient group of galaxies is the most massive ever found in the first few billion years of the universe, and may eventually grow into one of the largest clusters.

There's a lot more 'Martian' than what you saw in the theatre. Producer Aditya Sood & Space.com's @DavidSkyBrody take the payload fairing off 'The Martian' Blu-ray, DVD & Digital HD's bonus features. Live in the Mark Wat...

Britain's Surrey Satellite Technology will develop a demonstration model of a peroxide-based satellite propulsion system under a U.K. government grant as European satellite builders confront a possible future European Un...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Researchers from Australia and the USA have discovered a distant, ancient cloud of gas that may contain the signature of the very first stars that formed in the Universe. The gas cloud has an extremely small percentage o...

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Fresh worlds found by K2 mission push beyond original discoveries --

Friday's briefing begins with SpaceX hoping the third time's the charm when it makes another attempt to land a Falcon 9 first stage on an ocean-going drone ship. SpaceNews.com