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Robert Lighthizer told senators it would be up to President Trump to nominate new board members for the bank. SpaceNews.com

After delivering about 5,500 pounds of cargo, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station on Sunday, March 19. Live coverage of Dragon's departure will begin at 4:45 a.m. EDT on NAS...

The Russian federal space agency (Roscosmos) has announced that it is seeking new recruits to become the next-generation of cosmonauts. The post Russia Recruiting For Its Moon Bound Cosmonauts appeared first on Universe ...

Airbus will add a third node to the European Data Relay System (EDRS) constellation of geostationary satellites that use laser links to download live imagery from Earth-observation satellites and provide military communi...

After the election, the early signals from the Trump transition and beachhead teams across the various departments and agencies involved in space activities largely echoed that same message of support. However, at least ...

Lockheed Martin Space Systems won a $15 million contract modification for work on the Air Force's Space Based Infrared System, or SBIRS, the service announced March 15. SpaceNews.com

Using biofuels to help power jet engines reduces particle emissions in their exhaust by as much as 50 to 70 percent, in a new study conclusion that bodes well for airline economics and Earth's environment.

Observations in the past decade have demonstrated that extremely massive supermassive black holes were already in place when the Universe was less than 800 million years old....

When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material that's rotating and colliding around the young central star like a celestial roller derby....

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Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years ago, but their behavior is still not completely understood. Now, new observations from N...

When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material that's rotating and colliding around the young central star like a celestial roller derby. Analogs to our own Solar S...

The recently launched Sentinel-2B satellite has delivered its first image: the Italian port city of Brindisi - appropriately the same word for the 'toast' ritual in Italian

President Donald Trump has a chance to make a historic mark on NASA science and the future of space exploration in general, experts say.

The ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus rises nearly to the surface in some places, a new study suggests.

Spanish high-altitude balloon specialist Zero 2 Infinity completed its first test flight of Bloostar, a balloon-assisted small-satellite launcher four years in development.

What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently houses NASA's James Webb Space Telescope? The technicians who are inspecting the telescope and its expansive golden mirrors look like ...

A massive protostar, deeply nestled in its dust-filled stellar nursery, recently roared to life, shining nearly 100 times brighter than before. This outburst, apparently triggered by an avalanche of star-forming gas cras...

Vice President Mike Pence didn't offer any hints about what the Trump administration might do in space when he met with Buzz Aldrin last week, the former astronaut said March 14. SpaceNews.com

NASA officials are considering taking part in the upcoming Russian Venera D mission --

Students in West Virginia will speak with NASA astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station at 10:25 a.m. EDT Friday, March 17.

NASA says it could study distant exoplanets by using the sun as a giant gravity lens revealing (if it was Earth) islands, rivers, parks, Great Walls, freeways, cities, and so on. Imagine an alien spacecraft sitting at th...