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In September 2015, a team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, University of Michigan, Kyoto Sangyo University, Rikkyo University and the University of Tokyo successfully observed the entir...

A project exploiting Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to establish the blueprint for the world's most accurate real-time positioning service is to run at the University of Nottingham.

Japan on Tuesday launched its first military communications satellite to boost the broadband capacity of its Self Defence Forces as they reinforce an island chain stretching along the southern edge of the East China Sea....

Mission controllers are preparing to release Japan's Kounotori cargo ship from the International Space Station at the end of the week. Meanwhile, the Expedition 50 crew is getting ready for a new protein crystal experime...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

Students from Jenks Middle School in Jenks, Oklahoma, will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station at 10:35 a.m. EST on Thursday, Jan. 26. T...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

All galaxies, including our own, exist within a vast sphere of black holes, says Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard. New studies are providing increasingly sensitive results, slowly shrinking the box...

The presence of water on ancient Mars is a paradox. There's plenty of geographical evidence that rivers periodically flowed across the planet's surface. Yet in the time period when these waters are supposed to have run--...

A new color movie combines more than 100 images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during the probe's historic Pluto flyby in the summer of 2015.

Asteroid 2017 BX, nicknamed after the late actor Fred Berry whose played 'Rerun' on the show 'What's Happening,' will pass between the Earth and the moon on Jan. 25, 2017.

This year's Oscars may have an otherworldly bent: The sci-fi spectacle "Arrival" and the space history flick "Hidden Figures" were nominated for Best Picture, and space media made the list in other places as well.

Heather Wilson, a retired Air Force captain, advocated for new space programs to go to a New Mexico base. SpaceNews.com

Canada's exactEarth is urging investor patience, saying the sharply lower earnings it saw during its first year as a standalone company will improve as government customers warm to using satellites to track ships. SpaceN...

The SpaceX CEO was among several business leaders who met with the new president. SpaceNews.com

Researchers have discovered minerals from 43 meteorites that landed on Earth 470 million years ago. More than half of the mineral grains are from meteorites completely unknown or very rare in today's meteorite flow. Thes...

While best known for its surveys of the stars and mapping the Milky Way in three dimensions, ESA's Gaia has many more strings to its bow. Among them, its contribution to our understanding of the asteroids that litter the...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers led by Fabian Walter of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany has revealed essential properties of a molecular outflow feature in the nearby starburst galaxy d...

Five privately funded teams have secured verified launch contracts to blast their robotic spacecraft to the moon, keeping them eligible for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, contest organizers announced today (Jan. 2...

NOAA could be forced to delay plans for a space weather satellite if Congress decides to extend a stopgap spending bill currently funding the agency for the full year. SpaceNews.com

World View Enterprises, the Arizona company developing high-altitude balloons for research and eventually tourism, plans to conduct a test flight of a weather radar on one of its balloons later this year. SpaceNews.com