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The Air Force is considering taking over an existing geostationary orbit weather satellite operated by NOAA to help fill a gap in coverage over the Indian Ocean. SpaceNews.com

Rogue sites protesting the Trump team's new guidelines for federal agencies are popping up everywhere. The post Rogue NASA, EPA, NPS Twitter Accounts Launched to Protest Trump Directives appeared first on Universe Today.

The universe really is expanding faster than scientists had thought, new research suggests.

Engineers have resumed a series of critical and rigorous vibration qualification tests on NASA's mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland to confirm its safe...

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...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is being asked to reconsider a satellite-servicing demonstration mission it plans to put under contract this year. SpaceNews.com

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Twitter is fast proving to be a two-edged social-media sword. Employees from NASA and more than a dozen other U.S. government agencies, according to Reuters, have established a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds...

Moonwalkers and dozens of others who took part in NASA's Apollo program are paying tribute to the three astronauts killed in a fire 50 years ago.

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NASA has observed a purple blob -a highly magnetized rotating pulsar- spinning through the Milky Way. The image was captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, a gliding telescope in Earth's orbit tasked with observing hi...

The space community likely has a few more months to wait before it gets an idea of what U.S. space policy under the Donald Trump administration may look like, a top aerospace analyst said Jan. 25. SpaceNews.com

NASA is launching rockets into auroras.

Elon Musk has a plan to help humans keep up with artificial intelligence.

NSF wants to cut its share of costs down to $2 million, with the new partners making up the difference. SpaceNews.com

NASA calculated California's rainfall over seven days using a constellation of satellites and created a map to provide the visual extent of the large rainfall totals....

The Hubble constant is crucial for modern astronomy as it can help to confirm or refute whether our picture of the Universe -- composed of dark energy, dark matter and normal matter -- is actually correct, or if we are.....

Among the new people trickling into NASA Headquarters during the Trump administration's first Washington work week is a familiar face: former NASA deputy administrator Shana Dale. SpaceNews.com

The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth - the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through - can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a ...

The future of one of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes is in question after the U.S. National Science Foundation announced Wednesday it was accepting proposals from ...

Wilbur Ross wrote that he will "continue to research, monitor, and report climate information to the public." SpaceNews.com