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An International Launch Services (ILS) Russian Proton rocket on Jan. 30 successfully placed the Eutelsat 9B commercial telecommunications satellite into orbit, with Proton's Breeze-M upper stage separating the satellite ...

Google hopes to beam down 5G Internet from its unmanned aircraft to remote regions in the world. That project has a name: SkyBender.

Nepal's magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake caused significant damage and loss of life in 2015. In natural disasters like this, it is critical to locate areas that are in the most need of assistance as fast as possible....

"Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed," said Noble Prize winning physicist Adam Riess in an interview. "I have absolutely no clue what dark energy is. Dark energy ap...

The European Space Agency says a new laser terminal has been launched into orbit as part of wider efforts to develop Europe's first optical communications network, a system able to monitor natural disasters and other cat...

NASA knows, and it maintains active archives of these data. Here are maps for the positions of known natural objects in the inner, outer, and distant solar system in January 2016. --

This image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first look at Pluto's atmosphere in infrared wavelengths, and the first image of the atmosphere made with data from the New Horizons Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spect...

After more than twenty years, the giant mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope is essentially complete --

The final episode of Crash Course Astronomy went up last week, but if you miss it already, we have one final video for you: the fifth outtakes reel, which basically features me trying to pronounce common words as if I ha...

The European Data Relay System's first laser terminal has reached space aboard its host satellite and is now under way to its final operating position

Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto's surface than previously thought....

A NASA team has been tapped to build a new type of communications modem that will employ an emerging, potentially revolutionary technology that could transform everything from telecommunications, medical imaging, advance...

When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in the planet's atmosphere that creates imperceptible changes in the amount of rain that falls below.

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The first laser node of the European Data Relay System lifted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan atop a Proton rocket on 29 January at 22:20 GMT

NASA has opened media accreditation for the next launch of a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch of Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled for Thursday, March 10, during a 30-...