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Members of a House appropriations committee said March 15 they will seek to increase funding for NASA above the administration's request for fiscal year 2017, particularly for programs like the Space Launch System and a ...

The invention of the rocket changed space science forever. The Universe could only be inspected from the surface of the Earth, with all that atmosphere in the way, until rockets were invented. And as far as the modern ag...

Images from the New Horizons spacecraft show a bite-mark shaped feature on the surface of Pluto. Scientists think that the feature is caused by the sublimation of methane ice, causing cliffs to erode and leaving a flat p...

Tuesday's briefing begins with International Civil Aviation Organization convening a conference in Abu Dhabi expected to include a discussion of whether the aviation safety group should draft international guidelines for...

The remotely controlled Sally Ride EarthKAM aboard the International Space Station snapped this striking photograph during a flyover of South Africa on Feb. 9, 2016....

ran's Imam Khomeini space launch facility has become highly active, according to new imagery by Urthecast's HD camera mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station.

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ESRIN's Open Days 2016 gave 2000 schoolchildren an opportunity to learn more about ESA's Centre for Earth Observation

As I mentioned on Monday, February's global temperatures blew the previous monthly high temperature record out of the sky. It was the hottest February on record going back 130+ years. Over at Tamino's blog Open Mind, he ...

Check out this fantastic photo essay about the history of the Orion III space plane, from the sci-fi movie epic "2001: A Space Odyssey," including images of an incredibly accurate, fan-made model.

A top Air Force official, worried that operators last month lost the ability to command a two-year-old weather satellite, has ordered its twin satellite to temporarily be kept in storage as a backup plan, even though Con...

In partnership with the White House Council on Women and Girls, NASA will host a Women's History Month event Wednesday, March 16 that examines the role of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math ...

NRAO's Karl J. Jansky Very Large Array and two of NASA's space telescopes -- Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble -- have captured a stunning new image of a very distant and massive cluster of galaxies. Rather than being...

Satellite fleet operator SES, satellite manufacturer OHB SE and the European Space Agency on March 11 signed the go-ahead contract to produce a lightweight, all-electric commercial telecommunications satellite platform c...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of four new giant exoplanets orbiting stars much bigger than our sun. The newly detected alien worlds are enormous, with masses from 2.4 to 5.5 the m...

There are a few places in the universe that defy comprehension. And supernovae have got to be the most extreme places you can imagine. We're talking about a star with potentially dozens of times the size and mass of our ...

The three residents onboard the International Space Station are busy today researching space science to benefit life on Earth and future crews. The trio is also ramping up to welcome a new set of Expedition 47-48 crew me...

The funny thing about debunking artwork mistaken for science: There's always more. The image at the top of this article appears in my Facebook timeline every week or two; It's clearly an astronomical photograph, but what...

Planets can sneak up on you. Especially the ones that don't rise till you're in bed. Take Mars for instance. It's been ambling east along the morning zodiac all winter long; today it enters Scorpius, rising around 1:30 a...

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