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The deal between the French space agency CNES and Indian space agency ISRO covers work on launch technology, including how to streamline mission costs. SpaceNews.com

Ethiopia says it will launch a civilian satellite into orbit in three to five years to better predict weather conditions and for remote sensing activities inside the country.

The Moon, and the question of how it was formed, has long been a source of fascination and wonder....

18 years of Hubble Telescope data on a star system reveals a surprising phenomenon spanningtens of billions of miles --

A groundbreaking new optical device, developed at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) to correct images of the Sun distorted by multiple layers of atmospheric turbulence, is providing scientists with the most precis...

The head of NASA's Earth science division says he does not expect major changes in his programs for the remainder of the fiscal year despite a change in administrations. SpaceNews.com

The French space agency, CNES, will supply two spacecraft cameras to a team from India competing for the Google Lunar X Prize, and has tightened its partnership with India to study reusable launch technology. SpaceNews.c...

In a distant spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy, some 1,480 light-years from Earth, a star, KIC 8462852, but informally called "Tabby's Star" or "Boyajian's Star" is acting in ways the world's astronomy community has nev...

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Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They're so small and faint that it's hard to spot them. But a possible planet in a nearby stellar system may be betraying its presence in a unique way: by......

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Stefan Lamoureaux at the Links Through Space blog.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future? Why don't we meet people who grow younger as they age? Why do things, left by themselves, tend to become messier and more chaotic? What would Maxwell's Demon say to...  �...

This delicate smudge in deep space is far more turbulent than it first appears. Known as IRAS 14348-1447--a name derived in part from that of its discoverer, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS for short)--this cel...

The liquid hydrogen tank of NASA's massive Space Launch System rocket will be tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. A 221-foot test stand was constructed from May 2014 - December 2016.

A survey of 150,000 stars shows that humans and their galaxy have about 97 percent of the same kind of atoms.

The space shuttle Endeavour display at the California Science Center is getting a "boost" in the form of two towering flight-worthy add-ons. Orbital ATK and NASA are donating a set of solid rocket boosters for the exhibi...

NASA's first mission control briefly returns to service in the 20th Century Fox film "Hidden Figures," seven years after the building was demolished and two months after its original contents reopened on public display a...

Google acquired what was then known as Skybox Imaging in 2014 for an estimated $500 million but now appears interested in selling the company as it seeks to cut costs. SpaceNews.com

Careful sleuthing through decade-old images has enabled ESA's asteroid team to decide that a newly discovered space rock poses little threat of hitting Earth any time soon.

The image above doesn't look like much at a glance, does it? Look again. What you're seeing are thousands of black holes. Thousands. That image is a part of the Chandra Deep Field South, the result of a series of very lo...

Analysis reveals gas clouds the spacecraft will encounter in thousands of years --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: