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The slowdown in the rise of the global mean surface temperature between 1998 and 2013 wasn't a slowdown at all. The oceans have warmed instead. The post ‘Global Warming Hiatus’ Not Good News For Planet Earth appeared...

NASA said its Cassini mission is set to begin on November 30 a daring set of "ring-grazing" orbits, during which it will fly closer to Saturns rings than it has since its 2004 arrival. During its epic journey, Cassini ha...

Spiral galaxy NGC 3274 is a relatively faint galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion).

NASA challenged engineers to pack an entire satellite dish into a cereal box with Radar in a CubeSat (RainCube), a technology-demonstration mission scheduled for launch in 2018 that will measure rain and snowfall on Eart...

There's a new guy in the galactic neighborhood -- a small, ultra-faint satellite galaxy has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way. Its discovery will help scientists better understand dark matter, a mysterious substance...

As our planet's technology continues to evolve, scientists like Stephen Hawking become more aware of the possibility that aliens might lurk in the darkness studying our behavior from afar. In this radio interview, the SE...

I love meteorites. I have quite a few myself; while I've never found one on a hunt I've bought them from collectors. There's a wealth of science in them; many are as old or even older than Earth, having formed in the ear...

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. Launch is targeted for April 2021 on a Sp...

Europe's new Mars probe has started testing its science gear, a month after arriving at the Red Planet.

An astronomer from LJMU's Astrophysics Research Institute has discovered a new family of stars in the core of the Milky Way Galaxy which provides new insights into the early stages of the Galaxy's formation.

A new report recommends that the FAA do more to assist commercial spaceports in determining their insurance requirements, but stops short of calling for regulatory changes regarding coverage for non-federal facilities. S...

In a month where it's easy to get outrage fatigue at the incoming Donald Trump administration, he still finds a way to be brazenly awful and make terrible, dangerous decisions: In an interview with the Guardian, Bob Walk...

After the successful expansion of Bigelow Aerospace's BEAM aboard the International Space Station, next steps for the technology are being looked at. Robert Bigelow explains some its potential uses.

Three new crew members are in their first week aboard the International Space Station. They joined the Expedition 50 crew Saturday bringing the occupancy of the orbital lab to six humans....

The European Space Agency on Nov. 23 said its Schiaparelli lander's crash landing on Mars on Oct. 19 followed an unexplained saturation of its inertial measurement unit, which delivered bad data to the lander's computer ...

In the Nov. 21 issue of SpaceNews, senior staff writer Jeff Foust and and several outside experts examine what Donald Trump’s presidency could mean for civil, national security and commercial space. In “Back to the m...

Technology image of the week: test deployment of a 5 m-diameter antenna reflector, designed for orbital operations

For lunar exploration advocates, the moon appears closer now than at any time since Obama took office SpaceNews.com

ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has today confirmed two-year mission extensions for nine scientific missions in which the Agency is participating. This secures their operations until the end of 2018.

It was a literal property crash: multiple homes in the Cármenes del Mar resort on the south coast of Spain were engulfed in a landslide, leaving families homeless. But satellite archives offer early warning of such even...

If you get up early Thursday morning (Nov. 24) to stuff the turkey, or shop at the crack of dawn on Friday (Nov. 25), you will be able to spot the crescent moon that's passing near Jupiter, the planet now appearing as a ...

Operations image of the week: Mission control shepherds four Galileo satellites in orbit