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The Defense Department isn't willing to send small satellites into operational roles, at least not yet, a Pentagon official said Oct. 20. SpaceNews.com

China's on-going Shenzhou-11/Tiangong-2 mission has included launch of an "accompanying" satellite.

Though the landing attempt didn't go according to plan, the Schiaparelli probe will return a bulk of the science expected, "except the last little bit," according to the European Space Agency.

A third U.S. Air Force weather satellite that launched more than 20 years ago has broken up in orbit, Air Force Space Command disclosed Monday evening. SpaceNews.com

Here's a great new view of China's Tiangong II space station, taken by a new 'selfie' satellite. The Banxing-2 satellite is about the size of a desktop printer and was released from the station on Sunday. It has been nic...

NASA has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract to Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Virginia, known publicly as Orbital ATK, for the Landsat 9 spacecraft.

CNSA has released imagery taken by a smallsat deployed the other day that shows Tiangong 2 and Shenzhou 11...

Welcome, come in to the 480th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. I’m Susie Murph, part of the team...

How does space travel affect the spine? Astronauts on long missions in space have atrophy of the muscles supporting the spine--which don't return to normal even several weeks after their return to Earth, reports a study ...

The value of a good analyst is priceless. They can synthesize data from disparate sources and weave a reasonable story to bring sense out of historical events and to provide guidance to planning for the future. Adding a ...

Since Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the Universe astronomers try to find out how many of them are there. This new Hubblecast focusses on the question "How many galaxies are there?" ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Roving is currently the most common way that robots on Mars get from A to B, but it isn't necessarily the most practical. here are 10 ways that robots can move around on Mars.

In August 2016, the announcement of the discovery of a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri (artists impression above) stimulated the imagination of experts and the general public. Thi...

Today: Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) Ingress and Sampling: FE-6 stowed the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) then opened Node3 Aft hatch to ingress the BEAM....

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Researchers used remote sensing data and topographic modeling techniques to reveal an enormous dome in the Earth's second highest continental plateau driven in part by a huge zone of melted rock in the crust, known as a ...

ESA Science & Technology :

(Phys.org)--A new study based on the first Gaia data release (DR1) reveals more accurate measurements of the distance of four canonical luminous blue variables (LBVs) in the Milky Way galaxy. According to a research pape...

When whole galaxies collide, it's a train wreck on a cosmic scale. Usually there's a near miss first, with each galaxy flying past the other. Both galaxies get distorted, their mutual gravity stretching them like taffy. ...

On a clear night, and when light pollution isn't a serious factor, looking up at the sky is a breathtaking experience. On occasions like these, it is easy to be blown away by the sheer number of stars out there. But of c...

Wildly tipped planets around dim stars may have a thin range of habitability compared with their upright siblings.