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Budget documents for the fiscal year 2018 proposal call for a 17 percent cut in NOAA's overall budget. SpaceNews.com

Earlier this week, NASA hosted the "Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop" at their headquarters in Washington, DC. Running from Monday to Wednesday - February 27th to March 1st - the purpose of this workshop was to pre...

WASHINGTON -- A little over a year after the launch of its first satellite, Belarus' state-owned telecom satellite operator, Belintersat, says its commercial sales efforts are bearing fruit. Belintersat-1, a C- and Ku-ba...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

Space startup companies seeking to raise money may face problems in the years ahead, particularly in satellite and launch markets where there are already a large number of ventures, investors and analysts warned. SpaceNe...

The scaffolding that holds the large-scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars are forming), organized in complex networks known as the cosmic web. This network comprises...

Arabsat has ordered a new telecommunications satellite from two Saudi Arabian entities that have worked with Lockheed Martin to learn how to build spacecraft. SpaceNews.com

The United States must be prepared to lose satellites in the event of a conflict, but smallsats and dispersed systems can help ensure key capabilities remain operational. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope:

Russia is honoring the world's first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, on her 80th birthday.

All throughout the universe, there are stars in varying phases and ages. The oldest detected planets found using NASA's Kepler telescope are about 11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity suggests that around ot...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The discovery of young stars in old star clusters could send scientists back to the drawing board for one of the Universe's most common objects.

This image shows lightning data captured on February 14, 2017 over the course of an hour and displayed over an image of the Western Hemisphere from the Advanced Baseline Imager on GOES-16....

Three Expedition 50 crew members recently surpassed 100 days in space and will come home in June. Also, SpaceX Dragon external experiments are being unloaded for installation on the International Space Station....

NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) "will measure the height of a changing Earth, one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses a second," according to the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Cen...

The nature of the dark matter which apparently makes up 80% of the mass of the particles in the universe is still one of the great unsolved mysteries of present day sciences. The lack of experimental evidence, which coul...

The nature of the dark matter which apparently makes up 80% of the mass of the particles in the universe is still one of the great unsolved mysteries of present day sciences. The lack of experimental evidence, which coul...

Galaxies have dramatically grown in size since the early Universe, and elliptical galaxies, in particular, are the largest galaxies in both size and mass. What is the main driver behind the late growth of their outer par...

A European project is coming close to the validation of a prototype of 'Passive bistatic radar' (PBR) technology based on Galileo transmissions. Once finalised, the new system could help relevant authorities to assure be...

Mars may have been a wetter place than previously thought, according to research on simulated Martian meteorites conducted, in part, at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).