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The volcanic activity of Jupiter's moon, Io has been monitored for the last nine years by the Galileo spacecraft and now, with the advent of adaptive optics systems, by Earth-bound astronomers such as those at the Keck 1...

An unmanned Atlas V rocket will launch a powerful new broadband internet satellite into orbit from Florida today (Dec 18) and you can watch the action live online.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but when it's the first ever image of an Earth-like exoplanet, a picture could be worth far more. That's our goal at Project Blue.

The life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was celebrated at a public memorial service Saturday (Dec. 17), at Ohio State University in Columbus.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 successfully launched a broadband satellite for EchoStar Dec. 18 on the company's final mission of the year. SpaceNews.com

Thomas Pesquet: This is tonight's "super moon" seen from space! The last one I saw was in Baikonur ... I like this one better! ;)...

Thomas Pesquet: I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos islands, but never managed. As a consolation prize, I saw them from space today....

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the EchoStar 19 high-speed internet satellite into orbit on Dec. 18, 2016 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. See launch photos in our gallery here.

A powerful new communications satellite, touted as the world's highest-capacity broadband satellite for space-based internet service, launched into space Sunday (Dec. 18) to serve millions of customers across North Ameri...