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[caption id="attachment_126323" align="aligncenter" width="4758"] This overhead shot of the James Webb Space Telescope shows part of the installation of the 18 primary flight mirrors onto the telescope structure in a cle...

An international team composed of researchers from Finland, France, the United States and the Czech Republic originally set out to construct a state-of-the-art model of the NEO population that is needed for planning futu...

The Air Force, which has struggled with environmental monitoring from satellite systems for several years, is to be commended for beginning to look at space-based environmental monitoring as a commercial service. SpaceNe...

55 Cancri-e was once touted as one of the most exotic exo-planets ever discovered. Mass and radius modelling led some astronomers to speculate that its interior could be rich in carbon. And that much carbon crushed toget...

For two decades it was thought that most near-Earth objects (NEOs)--asteroids and comets that may pose a hazard to life on Earth--end their existence in a dramatic final plunge into the Sun. A new study published on Thur...

Jupiter, which has a mass more than twice that of all the planets combined, continues to fascinate researchers. The planet is characterized most often by its powerful jet streams and Great Red Spot (GRS), the biggest and...

From Tim Peake: Flying North-East towards Ahmedaba, India, over the Arabian Sea. Larger image...

Wednesday's briefing begins with an IMF report quantifying the financial toll Ukraine's conflict with Russia has taken on the Ukrainian space industry. SpaceNews.com

"Supermassive black hole activity, including the launching of jets, may be different in the early Universe than what we see later on," said co-author Teddy Cheung of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. "By fi...

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The crew aboard the International Space Station is getting ready for a busy traffic month set to begin March 1. Meanwhile, advanced microgravity research and spacesuit work continues inside the orbital lab....

On March 9, 1989, a huge cloud of solar material exploded from the sun, twisting toward Earth....

The British mapping agency Ordnance Survey has created a map of the Martian surface using precision NASA data -- and it's beautiful.

Black hole theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has some thoughts on the discovery of gravitational waves.

"Our team has been anxiously waiting for the first detection of gravitational waves so that we can rapidly point the Dark Energy Camera at this location and search for the associated visible light," says Edo Berger of th...

A copy of author Rob Boffard's new book 'Zero-G' took a balloon flight to the stratosphere along with an audio recording of the first chapter -- which was played during the flight. The book is available on Amazon.

To reach the power levels needed to reach a proportion of the speed of light humanity will need to create new technologies. One such technology, photonics propulsion, is showing promise.

The challenge is for K-12 students to create a 3D model of "non-edible, food-related item for astronauts to 3D print in the year 2050," according to co-sponsors ASME and NASA.

(Phys.org)--Studying substructures of galaxy clusters can reveal important information about the morphology and evolution processes of these gravity-bound groups of galaxies. Optical spectroscopy is very helpful in this ...

Hot enough for ya? It should be: January 2016 was the hottest January globally since records began in 1880. And it didn't just edge out the previous record holder for January, it destroyed it. The temperatures used here ...

Animation visualising milestones during the launch of the ExoMars 2016 mission and its cruise to Mars. The mission comprises the Trace Gas Orbiter and an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, Schiaparelli, whic...

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