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Geospatial imagery and services provider DigitalGlobe on Oct. 25 reported increased revenue and gross profit for the three months ending Sept. 30 with a surprisingly large increase in commercial business. SpaceNews.com

A telescope located deep in the West Australian outback has shown what the Universe would look like if human eyes could see radio waves.

The newly-expanded Expedition 49 crew is getting ready to grow lettuce to learn how to grow fresh food in space. Meanwhile, the International Space Station is getting ready for another crew swap....

A new study produced by researchers at Caltech links the existence of Planet 9 to the axial tilt of our Sun, something that was previously unexplained The post Evidence Continues To Mount For Ninth Planet appeared first ...

For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a process, caused by gravitational instability, was at work, b...

Doctors to astronauts: We've got your back.

Liquid water is essential for life as we know it -- but too much water could stop the evolution of complex lifeforms in its tracks.

Although the universe started out with a bang it quickly evolved to a relatively cool, dark place. After a few hundred thousand years the lights came back on and scientists are still trying to figure out why.

A NASA-developed tool that private industry and other agency centers now use to plot a mission's path to far-flung interplanetary destinations has gotten significantly more proficient and can now even reveal--sometimes i...

About a half-hour after sunset Thursday evening (Oct. 27), look low in the southwest sky to spot a planetary/stellar lineup of two bright planets and one of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky.

The University of Cincinnati's Hyperloop pod prototype achieved magnetic levitation and is headed to a test track at SpaceX headquarters in early 2017.

Elliot Pulham, the longtime chief executive of the Space Foundation, has resigned effective immediately, the organization announced Oct. 24.

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.

The next big change in space operations could be the paperwork SpaceNews.com

The White House announced a new initiative Oct. 21 to promote the development of small satellites, collecting under one roof a number of efforts, some of which started months ago.

Media are invited to meet Thomas Zurbuchen, recently named the associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and ask questions in person or via phone during an informal brown bag lunch at noon EDT Monda...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Our planet's ice ages used to occur at intervals of every 40,000 years, which made sense to scientists as the Earth's seasons vary in a predictable way, with colder summers occurring at these intervals.However there was ...

An international collaboration of astronomers, led by a group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, has used the unrivalled observing power of MUSE on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) a...

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...

In the same way that two eyes give humans a three-dimensional perception of the world around us, the twin spacecraft of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission, or STEREO, enable us to understand the sun i...

Today I'm going to toss a little bit of math your way. If you're an arithmophobe, never fear: It's mostly just me throwing around some gee-whiz numbers, and I'll help you swallow this medicine with the sweet, sweet eye c...