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This enhanced-color image of Jupiter's south pole and its swirling atmosphere was created by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft....

In the southern hemisphere this weekend in the 'Land of Oz?' Are you missing out on the passage of Comet 45/P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, and the penumbral lunar eclipse? Fear not, there's an astronomical event designed ...

(Lomonosov Moscow State University) Astronomers at Lomonosov Moscow State University in cooperation with their French colleagues and with the help of citizen scientists have released 'The Reference Catalog of galaxy SEDs...

A team of scientists at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently completed a technology demonstration that could enable new scientific missions to the surface of Venus....

A bridge of stars between the Magellanic Clouds helps unravel a mystery. The post The Magellenic Clouds Stay Connected By A String Of Stars appeared first on Universe Today.

U.S. Strategic Command agreed to share space situational awareness data with Belgium under an agreement concluded Feb. 7. SpaceNews.com

Launch companies that focus primarily on sending large spacecraft into orbit are modifying their business plans to serve customers in the rapidly growing small satellite market, according to a panel of experts speaking a...

A report on the potential science value of a lander on the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa has been delivered to NASA, and the agency is now engaging the broader science community to open a discussion about its find...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

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. --

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is me...

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. ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

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...