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The federal government is taking more space-related items off of the most restrictive export control list, although some in industry believe the changes don't go far enough. SpaceNews.com

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope:

The new season premieres on February 1st, 2017 on the Syfy Channel.

According to a new study from UCLA which conducted uranium-lead dating on Moon rocks, the Moon is older than previously thought. The post The Moon is Older than We Thought, says New Study appeared first on Universe Today...

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A young boy in Chile wearing a NASA t-shirt explains a computer game to Pete Worden from Breakthrough Initiatives. How did he get that t-shirt? Why is he wearing it?...

The twin Voyager spacecraft are now making their way through the interstellar medium. Even though they are going where none have gone before, the path ahead it is not completely unknown. Astronomers are using the Hubble ...

Rumors began circulating in December that two leaders in the small satellite Earth imaging field were on the brink of deal, when employees of Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Terra Bella began visiting the offices of San Francis...

The beautiful spiral galaxy visible in the center of the image is known as RX J1140.1+0307, a galaxy in the Virgo constellation imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and it presents an interesting puzzle. At fir...

NASA is delaying contracts and other awards planned for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) early this year by a few months, citing uncertainty about the agency's budget.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory:

Science may soon imitate fiction. In Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of a Distant Earth, scientists discover the sun will go supernova in the year 3600, and a massive effort is undertaken to spread humanity to the stars, us...

Moon Express announced Jan. 13 that it has closed a $20 million financing round, giving the company sufficient funds for an attempt to win the Google Lunar X Prize later this year. SpaceNews.com

This week, ESA deep-space radio dishes on two continents are listening for signals from the international Cassini spacecraft, now on its final tour of Saturn.

Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot will serve as acting administrator starting Jan. 20. SpaceNews.com

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet floated into space on his first-ever spacewalk Friday, and helped install three new, refrigerator-sized lithium-ion batteries to upgrade the power system at the International Space Station...

NASA Breaking News:

On December 25, 2004, the piggybacking Huygens probe was released from the 'mothership' Cassini spacecraft and it arrived at Titan on January 14, 2005. The probe began transmitting data to Cassini four minutes into its d...

Most scientists agree that the Earth has pretty much always had its moon. Details of the moon's composition (in particular the "isotopic mixture" of heavier and lighter versions of various elements) are too similar to th...

Our week through the lens: 9-13 January 2017

Visitors to NASA's Kennedy Space Center can now take home the retired space shuttle Atlantis, the International Space Station and the entire solar system as souvenirs -- all via a virtual reality (VR) headset and app-dri...