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The GEO-CAPE ROIC In- Flight Performance Experiment (GRIFEX) CubeSat was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday, January 31, 2015, as an auxiliary payload to the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.

AlSat Nano, which was designed and built at the University of Surrey in just 18 months, has captured and downloaded its first full colour image--a step forward in demonstrated UK nanosatellite capability.

Rolling up the slopes of Mt. Sharp recently, NASA's Curiosity rover appears to have stumbled across yet another meteorite, its third since touching down nearly four and a half years ago. While not yet confirmed, the turk...

Microbes that rank among the simplest and most ancient organisms on Earth could survive the extremely thin air of Mars, a new study finds.

(Phys.org)--Completing its 16th year in orbit, a small Swedish astrophysics and aeronomy satellite named "Odin" has proven that it is still capable of carrying out important observations of space. The spacecraft has late...

Early U.S. space history is fading with the deaths of Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, John Glenn, the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts, and Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. But others sur...

NASA Breaking News:

Former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last of only a dozen men to walk on the moon who returned to Earth with a message of "peace and hope for all mankind," has died. He was 82.

The second of two all-electric satellites fleet operator Eutelsat gained through the acquisition of Satmex began service Jan. 16 after finishing a seven-month journey to its orbital location, Eutelsat announced. SpaceNew...

Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough from NASA and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agency concluded their spacewalk at 12:20 p.m. EST....

"The big chill following the impact of the asteroid that formed the Chicxulub crater in Mexico is a turning point in Earth history," says Julia Brugger from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). "We ca...

Life in so-called 'microgravity' environments--where the force of gravity is considerably less than on Earth--can cause significant problems for the human body. Astronauts who spend a number of months in space have been ...

A launch failure in 2015 resulted in a loss of a quarter billion dollars. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX Falcon 9 comes roaring back to life with dramatically successful Iridium fleet launch and ocean ship landing

49 Lib, a relatively bright star in the southern sky, is 12 billion years old rather than just 2.3 billion. For many decades, researchers were stumped by conflicting data pertaining to this celestial body, because they h...

Over the weekend --on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017-- SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 into space, successfully completing its primary mission of deploying ten Iridium communication satellites. The secondary mission? To land the fir...

The last person to walk on the Moon had some fun on his stay on Luna. Cernan and Apollo 17 crewmate Harrison Schmitt sang a few bars of Ed Haley's "The Fountain in the Park" while moonwalking.

ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration:

Watch the SmallGEO media briefing on Wednesday 18 January at ESA Headquarters, from 11:30 CET

Season 2 of the high-flying "Expanse" TV show is coming soon, and Space.com can't wait -- so we caught up with the book's authors, who are also deeply involved with the new show, about what to expect when it returns Feb....

You cannot feel or hear the world turning. It does not rumble through space. But you can see it turn with your own eyes every day and night. And, with patience, you can see Earth travel around the Sun.

Astronomers have discovered an immense surge of energy coming from a cosmic particle accelerator located about 2 billion light years from Earth.