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Pierogi moons, rubber duckie comets and spewing ice balls: We have some very strange neighbors among the myriad planets, moons and objects that circle our sun. --

The head of state rocket engine manufacturer Energomash, said that 71 engines require "complete overhauls" to correct defects found. SpaceNews.com

When his father was diagnosed with a debilitating disease four years ago, it sparked Ivo Vieira into developing a novel means of communication for people coping with extreme limitations, building on technology originally...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: On April 1, 2017, comet 41P will pass closer than it normally does to Earth, giving observers with binoculars or a telescope a special viewing opportunity. Comet hunters in the Norther...

SpaceX plans to conduct the debut launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket this summer using two boosters that have already flown on other missions, SpaceX Founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk said March 30. SpaceNews.com

NASA has awarded TASC, an Engility Company of Chantilly, Virginia, to provide systems and software assurance services and software engineering services for the agency's Independent Verification and Validation Program in ...

This week, astronauts conducting a spacewalk had to perform an impromptu patch-up job when one of the ISS' shields broke off and floated away. The post Space Station Drama After Vital Micrometeorite Shielding Floats Away...

A concentrated three-day search for a mysterious, unseen planet in the far reaches of our own solar system has yielded four possible candidates. The search for the so-called Planet 9 was part of a real-time search with a...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week’s special guests are Timothy Spuck, Kathryn Meredith, Dr. James Hammerman and Andreas Stefik of the Innovators Developing Accessible Tools for Astronomy (IDATA) Proje...

This Sentinel-1 radar composite image takes us to the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island (lower-left), where the Nares Strait opens up into the Lincoln Sea in the Canadian Arctic....

Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 2:33 p.m. EDT....

The rigors of launch demand extreme testing for payloads. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently placed on a shake table to simulate vibrations it will endure. The telescope has an estimated "life-cycle cost of $...

"There is no question that space will be a contested domain in any future conflict," Heather Wilson said. SpaceNews.com

The Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft (MMS) has observed kinetic Alfven wave, a type of plasma wave. There were "unexpected complexities" with it according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

SpaceX's first "flight-proven" Falcon 9 rocket first stage to be launched and recovered for a second time won't leave Florida again, on another spaceflight or otherwise. The rocket stage will be retired and put on displa...

Elon Musk says reusing expensive orbit-class boosters will mean “a huge revolution in spaceflight” --

Elon Musk says reusing expensive orbit-class boosters will mean “a huge revolution in spaceflight” --

The vast polar structure--a plane of satellite galaxies at the poles of the Milky Way--is at the center of a tug-of-war between scientists who disagree about the existence of mysterious dark matter, the invisible substan...

With the new sci-fi flick "Ghost in the Shell" hitting theaters this week, Scientific American asks artificial intelligence experts which movies, if any, have gotten AI right.

Our week through the lens: 27-31 March 2017

ALMA NAOJ: As part of an ambitious experiment involving telescopes around the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is about to attempt to image something never-before-seen: a black hole. The Eve...

Jupiter will shine bright and appear large on April 7 as it reaches opposition. The moon will be nearly in its New moon phases during the peak of the Lyrid meteor showers making skywatching conditions optimal.