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The northern Caspian Sea sparkles in an icy new satellite image.

The North Polar layered deposits are a 3-kilometer thick stack of dusty water ice layers that are about 1000 kilometers across....

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.

NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog, which offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright ...

The International Space Station will boost its orbit Wednesday night to get ready for a crew swap next month. Three Expedition 50 crew members will complete their mission and a new two-person crew will launch to the stat...

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University of Leicester researchers to assess impact of climate and greenhouse gas emissions on agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic Plain...

A study by a team of scientists at the University of Sheffield suggests that stars being ripped apart due to galactic collisions might be 100 times more common than previously thought. The post When Galaxies Collide, Sta...

If we look back into the geologic record of the Earth, it appears that our planet’s magnetic field flips polarity every few hundred thousand years or so. Why does this happen? When’s it supposed to happen next? Is it...

With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to help us find out if any of these planets could possibl...

Mars' northern polar region is home to long lines of small pits, hinting at the presence of some dynamic process in the ice cap. The post Some Active Process is Cracking Open These Faults on Mars. But What is it? appeare...

Astro Digital, a remote sensing company developing both its own satellite constellation and an analytics platform for that imagery, said March 2 it has raised $16.65 million to accelerate the company's plans. SpaceNews.c...

Although it won't launch until the 2020s, the spacecraft's key components are being designed right now --

NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EST Monday, March 6, to discuss science investigations launching on the next Orbital ATK commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

Earth's southern hemisphere was treated to a annular solar eclipse on Feb. 26, 2017. NASA's DSCOVR, Aqua, Terra and Suomi NPP satellites captured imagery of the shadow's progression.

Virgin Galactic's California-based small satellite launch provider is now a separate company.

There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and including researcher...

Can earthlings live on Mars? They can if they develop self-sufficiency. NASA is betting on a multi-institution team of the best and brightest, including Utah State University scientists, to create the necessary technolog...

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company is spinning off its LauncherOne rocket program into a separate firm to better position itself to serve the booming small satellite industry, the company said Thursday (Marc...

Our constantly-changing sun sometimes erupts with bursts of light, solar material, or ultra-fast energized particles--collectively, these events contribute to space weather. In a study published Jan. 30, 2017, in Space W...

With liftoff just few days away, the next Sentinel satellite for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme is positioned in the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Mars attacks...this time in a new movie called "Life."