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Earth is about to pass between the Sun and Jupiter, placing the giant planet opposite the Sun on 7 April. This event is termed 'opposition' by astronomers, and takes place roughly every 13 months. This is the length of t...

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is exploring ways to deal with a proposed cut in future weather satellite programs, including greater use of commercial and international data sources over the lon...

NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission has successfully completed its development and commissioning phase and moved into the operations phase. The constellation of eight microsatellites--the f...

Had your fill of binocular comets yet? Thus far this year, we've had periodic comets 2P/Encke, 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková and 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák all reach binocular visibility above +10th magnitude as forec...

SETI Institute: On Tuesday, April 4, NASA will hold a press conference to unveil the beginning of Cassini's last mission segment, called the Grand Finale, a series of 22 orbits plunging between the main rings and the pla...

Boeing and United Launch Alliance showed off an astronaut safety system during a media event the day before the 33rd Space Symposium. SpaceNews.com

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is currently being tested ahead of its scheduled 2018 launch. NASA astrophysicist Amber Straughn updates Space.com's Sarah Lewin on where they are with the testing and what she ho...

The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2, the second peaked at 4:33 p.m. EDT on April 2, and the third peaked at 10:29 a.m. EDT on April 3. NASA's ...

NASA will hold a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 4, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, to preview the beginning of Cassini's final mission segment, known as the Grand Fi...

Protests roiling the South American home of Europe's primary spaceport prompted Airbus Defence and Space to send Europe's first high-power, all-electric satellite back to France until Arianespace resumes launches. SpaceN...

"Aliens could exist in forms we can't conceive," says Martin Rees is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, at the University of Cambridge, the Astronomer Royal, a member of Britain's House of Lords, and a for...

The planet Mars shares its orbit with a handful of small asteroids, the so-called Trojans. Now an international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found that most of these objects share a co...

Today: U.S. Crew Half Duty Day: Following yesterday's successful EVA, today was a half duty day for the US crew. They executed standard post EVA activities including a Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) water recharge, r...

Meteosat-7, EUMETSAT's oldest operational meteorological satellite, tomorrow begins its final journey to the great graveyard orbit in the sky.

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Lockheed Martin continues to develop its Mars Base Camp idea, which aims to establish a space station in orbit around the Red Planet in 2028.

Crews worked through the night installing Blue Origin's hard-to-miss display outside the main exhibit hall at the 33rd Space Symposium here. SpaceNews.com

Imagery from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was used by scientists to find proof of the waves on the Sun. The waves are comparable to those used to predict we...

Astronomers want to record an image of the heart of our galaxy for the first time: a global collaboration of radio dishes is to take a detailed look at the black hole which is assumed to be located there. This Event Hori...