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If the results in a new study are accepted, the dinosaur family tree will be getting overhauled. The post New Study Wants To Rip T-Rex From Its Place On Dino Tree appeared first on Universe Today.

German satellite manufacturer OHB Systems just barely missed its 2016 revenue goal despite supply chain issues that slowed key programs. SpaceNews.com

Rep. Jim Bridenstine spoke at a Washington Space Business Roundtable luncheon March 21, immediately after leaving the White House to attend the signing ceremony for a new NASA authorization act. SpaceNews.com

Expedition 50 astronauts will conduct up to three spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) in late March and early April to prepare for the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft and upgrade st...

The ALMA radio observatory has seen young spiral galaxies in unprecedented detail from 12 billion light-years away --

Space Systems Loral (SSL) has filed a lawsuit against Orbital ATK after an employee of that company accessed sensitive information in a NASA computer system about SSL satellite servicing technologies. SpaceNews.com

"We discovered the so far largest ordered magnetic fields in the universe, extending over 5-6 million light years", says Maja Kierdorf from Max Planck Institute Bonn. Astronomers from Bonn and Tautenburg in Thuringia (Ge...

Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.

For decades, astronomers have found distant galaxies by detecting the characteristic way their gas absorbs light from a bright quasar in the background. But efforts to observe the light emitted by these same galaxies hav...

ESA and its partners are happy to announce that 45 teams will soon have the unique opportunity to have their own experiments running in space after winning the first European Astro Pi Challenge....

WASHINGTON -- An Ariane 5 launch already twice delayed by French Guiana labor unrest was put on indefinite hold Thursday as protests shut down roads, schools and municipal buildings in the South American territory that h...

After three days of delays caused by worker strikes in French Guiana, rocket firm Arianespace opted Thursday to postpone indefinitely the launch of satellites for South Korean and Brazilian clients.

Pushing the limits of the largest single-aperture millimeter telescope in the world, and coupling it with gravitational lensing, University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Alexandra Pope and colleagues report that th...

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The astronauts took a break from spacewalk preparations today and checked out an expandable module and worked on science freezers. The crew also continued its human research program exploring space nutrition and the effe...

Gliese 581c is a super-Earth planet that was discovered in 2007. Early research suggested it may have liquid water on its surface but more recent research disputes that idea.

Euclid is a mission that aims to learn more about the parts of the universe we can't see -- dark energy and dark matter, which are thought to make up most of the known universe.

Designers of future Moon missions and bases have to contend with a chilling challenge: how might their creations endure the fortnight-long lunar night? ESA has arrived at a low-cost way of surviving....

Once upon a time, the Universe was just a hot soup of particles. In those days, together with visible particles, other particles to us hidden or dark might have formed. Billions of years later scientists cataloged 17 typ...

A team of astronomers has mapped distortions caused by the dust that pervades our galaxy in order to begin measuring how quickly the universe is expanding.

Images from the Rosetta spacecraft provide the first clear link between a comet's outbursts and changes upon the comet's surface --

The Georgia House passed the bill Wednesday on a 151-6 vote, after the state senate previously approved the bill. SpaceNews.com