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Two proven technologies have been combined to create a promising new technology that could meet future navigational challenges in deep space. It also may help demonstrate--for the first time--X-ray communications in spac...

A NASA advisory group has expressed concerns over SpaceX's safety standards in the wake of the explosion that claimed one of the company's rockets The post SpaceX’s Fueling Process Makes NASA Queasy appeared first on U...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

After a string of high-profile setbacks for rocket programmes aimed at one day flying paying customers into space, a Spanish tech firm plans to send stargazers skyward using gas-filled balloons.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred at the black hole in the center of a galaxy. This was follow...

It may be famous for hosting spectacular sights such as the Tucana Dwarf Galaxy and 47 Tucanae (heic1510), the second brightest globular cluster in the night sky, but the southern constellation of Tucana (The Toucan) als...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk of a spiral galaxy known as IC 2163. This colossal wave of mat...

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, is breaking records. MMS now holds the Guinness World Record for highest altitude fix of a GPS signal. Operating in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth, the MMS satell...

A "shaky" solar eclipse in space was filmed by one of NASA's sun-gazing spacecraft. The Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the eclipse on camera on Sunday (Oct. 30).

Our week through the lens: 31 October - 4 November 2016

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

China has launched its new Long March-5 heavy rocket yesterday, state media said, sending its payload into orbit in the country's latest step in advancing its space exploration program and setting the stage to for a perm...

Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smalle...

Meet the largest single chondrite in Texas. The post Monster Meteorite Found in Texas appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Incredibly realistic human-like robots from China's University of Science and Technology drew a huge amount of attention at the World Robot Conference in Beijing last week. The robots show how we're swiftly approaching t...

At a ceremony held in Vatican City today, ESA and the Vatican Apostolic Library have agreed to continue their years-long cooperation on the preservation, management and exploitation of archived information.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Part of Chile's Bernardo O'Higgins National Park in southern Chile is pictured in this Landsat-8 image from 8 January 2016. The park includes much of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field - the world's second largest contigu...

Today: Orbital ATK (OA)-5 Cargo Operations: Today, CDR continued transferring cargo from Cygnus to ISS. Afterwards, CDR participated in a cargo conference with ground specialists. At last report approximately 9.5 hours o...

I know I just wrote about how weird Ceres is (as well as how ridiculously beautiful it is), but honestly, it's really really weird, and there's more stuff to show you. Like Oxo, a 10-kilometer-wide impact crater seen abo...