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Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat says it sees "absolutely no impact" from British broadcaster Sky's new satellite-free U.K. television product, and that it is GEO, not LEO, that will prove to be the most effective means...

Nobel laureate Robert Wilson discusses how a network of telescopes might illumine a black hole, after the 92nd Street Y’s Bang! Bang! event. --

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About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula. Most of this interstellar material contracted at the disk...

DARPA, undeterred by a lawsuit Orbital ATK filed on Tuesday, formally announced today that it will partner with Space Systems/Loral (SSL) on the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program. SpaceNews.co...

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) says it supports the continued development and use of NASA's Space Launch System, a move that may help placate space policy tensions in the new administration.

On Feb. 9, 2017, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, known as MMS, began a three-month long journey into a new orbit. MMS flies in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth and the new orbit will take MMS twice as far...

The Aegis Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) was used to intercept a medium range ballistic target on Feb. 3, 2017. It was launched from the USS John Paul Jones and the video includes a camera angle from the Pacific Missile Range...

What's the perfect size for a small satellite? "The answer is 42 kilograms," said Martin Sweeting, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. founder and executive chairman said at the Small Satellite Symposium in Silicon Valley. ...

A new Discovery Channel documentary narrated by music legend Sting examines the extreme threat that solar weather poses to modern society.

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics say they have evidence for the existence of a medium-sized black hole with a mass of about 2,200 suns at the heart of 47 Tucanae, a 12-billion-year-old ball ...

Many scientists believe the Earth was dry when it first formed, and that the building blocks for life on our planet--carbon, nitrogen and water--appeared only later as a result of collisions with other objects in our sol...

On the evening of Friday, Feb. 10, careful skywatchers in eastern and central parts of North America can watch the full moon undergo a slight penumbral eclipse while a comet makes a close approach. We'll provide the deta...

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Hubble Space Telescope News:

Astronomers have developed a new technique to discover the faintest galaxies yet seen in the early universe --10 times fainter than any previously seen. These galaxies will help astronomers probe a little-understood, but...

Our week through the lens: 6-10 February 2017

The doorway out of ESA's Hertz test chamber, used to test the radio performance of large space antennas, as captured by photographer Edgar Martin.

"The Dark Side of the Sun" looks at the Carrington event of 1859, the largest geomagnetic storm in recorded history, and the damage it would do to if it hit Earth today. It premieres on Discovery on Saturday Feb. 11 and ...

Across Australia, on the evening of February 11/12, the full moon will travel directly in front of the bright star Regulus. For about an hour, the star will be hidden from view as the moon passes by.

For astronomers trying to understand which distant planets might have habitable conditions, the role of atmospheric haze has been hazy. To help sort it out, a team of researchers has been looking to Earth - specifically ...

Flying cars have become something of a hot ticket item of late. In the past few years, companies like Terrafugia, Aeromobil and Moller International have all grabbed headlines with their particular designs. And soon enou...