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Follow the Sentinel-2B launch live from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 7 March. Streaming begins at 01:30 GMT (02:30 CET), with liftoff scheduled at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET)

Boeing's plan to deploy a constellation of V-band satellites in non-geostationary orbit has prompted at least five companies, including SpaceX and OneWeb, to file me-too proposals with the U.S. Federal Communications Com...

ALMA NAOJ: An international team of astronomers, led by Hyosun Kim in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has found a way of deriving the orbital shape of binary stars that have orbit...

Delays in SpaceX's launch schedule have led an aggregator of secondary payloads to find alternative rides for dozens of satellites it planned to fly on a Falcon 9. SpaceNews.com

Long-running hearings for whether a giant telescope can be built atop a Hawaii mountain have wrapped up.

Analysis by a team of international researchers has found an asteroid pair has formed tails after they split, making them more like comets than asteroids. The post This Asteroid Broke In Half, and Then Both Halves Grew T...

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is different than the other Super Telescopes. It has its own agenda. The post Rise of the Super Telescopes: The Large Synoptic Telescopes appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA is soliciting concepts for payloads that could fly on a mysterious satellite it is in discussions to inherit from another government agency. SpaceNews.com

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Alan Stern is the Principal Investigator on the New Horizons mission. He will be joining us today to update everyone on what we now know about Pluto now that all of the New H...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the remarkable galaxy UGC 12591. UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral. It lies just under 400 million light-years away from us in the westernmost...

One of the sky's brightest stars will vanish behind the moon as seen from most of the contiguous U.S. and Central America on Saturday night.

"Photoacoustic coupling" may be behind strange sounds accompanying or even preceding a bright meteor soaring through Earth's atmosphere. Scientists reproduced sounds based on the measured brightness of a fireball that wa...

Mission teams on two continents completed a pre-launch 'dress rehearsal' yesterday, ensuring everything is ready for Sentinel-2B liftoff next week.

NASA is working to get a spacecraft to an asteroid before one strikes Earth. The space agency's Discovery Program, aimed at improving our understanding of the solar system by exploring planets, moons and other celestial ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The launch company proposed developing a cargo lander called Blue Moon that could support a future lunar base at the south pole. SpaceNews.com

Science writer Maia Weinstock, the creator of the recently announced Women of NASA Lego set, talked with Space.com.

"For thousands of years, people have wondered, are there other planets like Earth out there? Do any support life?" said Sara Seager, astrophysicst and planetary scientist at MIT. "Now we have a bunch of planets that are ...

Eruptions on the Sun's surface send clouds of electrically charged particles towards Earth, producing solar storms that--among other things--can trigger the beautiful Northern Lights over the Arctic regions.

The Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flare (GRIPS) mission was lofted into the stratosphere by high-altitude balloon in Jan. 2016. After 12 days of collecting data, it parachuted back down to the frozen tundra of A...

Live from ESA's Space Operations Centre in Germany: follow the event leading up to the launch of Sentinel-2B. Streaming begins at 00:30 GMT (01:30 CET) on 7 March