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Using a novel method and data from the Gaia space telescope, astronomers from the University of Toronto have estimated that the speed of the Sun as it orbits the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 240 kilome...

Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You're lucky if a spacecraft can send more than a few megabits per second ...

NASA is inviting the public to help search for possible undiscovered worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar space....

A Luxembourgian politician wants to breathe new life into the European Space Agency's cancelled Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) despite the program not garnering enough financial support to move forward. SpaceNews.com

Polish company SatRevolution S.A. has unveiled plans to set up the country's first satellite production facility that is to make small spacecraft in cooperation with foreign space industry players. SpaceNews.com

Democratic members of the Senate Commerce Committee have named Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) as the ranking member of the subcommittee with oversight of space issues. SpaceNews.com

NASA provider SpaceX is scheduled to launch its 10th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station no earlier than 10:01 a.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 18. Live coverage of the launch will begin at 8:3...

NASA is inviting the public to help search for possible undiscovered worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar space. A new website, called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, lets everyone p...

The Trump administration is considering a plan to extend the Hubble's life in case the James Webb Space Telescope fails. The post Dream Chaser Spacecraft May Be Used For Hubble Repair Mission appeared first on Universe T...

War correspondent, statesman, astronomer. Stargazing may not be what Winston Churchill is best remembered for, but a treatise he wrote on extraterrestrial life has revealed his scientific acumen six decades later.

Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio writes in the journal Nature and talks to Scientific American about the recently rediscovered essay by Winston Churchill that analyzed with impressive scientific... --

In 1939, he wrote presciently about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life in a way modern scientists can admire --

Images of an exploding dying star taken just a few hours after its detonation are revealing new details of stellar death --

See photos from the Indian Space Research Organization's launch of 104 satellites on a single rocket, setting a new world record.

NASA plans to study putting astronauts on the first launch of its Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, a move that could introduce new delays and other complications into the vehicle's development.

NASA's Kepler observatory should be able to detect planetary moons - yet to be discovered - formed by far-away planetary collisions outside our Solar System, research by Amy Barr of the Planetary Science Institute shows....

NASA plans to study putting astronauts on the first launch of its Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, a move that could introduce new delays and other complications into the vehicle's development. SpaceNews.com

NASA Johnson Space Center, in partnership with NASA Tournament Lab and online crowdsourcing platform HeroX, today announced three winners of the widely publicized Space Poop Challenge....

Iridium Communications says SpaceX has pushed back the launch of its second batch of next-generation satellites from mid-April to mid-June, a move that shifts the expected completion date for Iridium Next to the middle o...

The hunt is on for moons orbiting distant exoplanets -- but only the most massive "exomoons" may be detectable.

During Earth-Trojan asteroid search operations, the PolyCam imager aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter (center) and three of its moons, Callisto (left), Io, and Ganymede.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying 104 satellites (101 are nanosats) on Feb. 15, 2017 (0358 GMT).