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Europe's Galileo satnav network does more than let us find our way - it is also helping to save lives. Today sees a spotlight cast on Galileo's Search and Rescue service, which pinpoints people in distress on land or sea...

One of the best presentations at the recent Satellite 2017 show was given by Major General David Thompson, the Vice Commander at Air Force Space Command. Gen. Thompson highlighted the Air Force mission to dramatically im...

Chile's Atacama desert may seem to contain little besides red-grey rocks and sand--but scientists are busy searching here for clues to life in a place it much resembles: Mars.

United Launch Alliance is prepared to select Blue Origin's BE-4 engine for its Vulcan launch vehicle this year if the engine passes an upcoming series of tests, the company's chief executive said April 5. SpaceNews.com

Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos said he is selling $1 billion in stock of his retail giant Amazon each year to finance his rocket company, Blue Origin, which aims to carry tourists to space by 2018.

NASA is preparing for a future that could include soft robotic spacecraft with flexible surfaces that can anchor to an asteroid, and an artificial gravity device for long-duration, deep space missions, along with other t...

This year's Yuri's Night promises to be a momentous occasion, with celebrations and events taking place all over the world! The post What Are You Doing For Yuri’s Night? appeared first on Universe Today.

In the course of observing an explosion in a distant galaxy, a team of researchers noticed something unprecedented - a supernova in slow-motion. The post A Star Going Supernova In Slow Motion Discovered appeared first on...

SETI Institute: Stellar systems with as many as 8 planets, like ours, are rare in the galaxy. This is why the discovery of 7 rocky exoplanets around the dwarf star, Trappist-1, has gotten planetary scientists so excited....

Scientists have long thought that Ceres may have a very weak, transient atmosphere, but mysteries lingered about its origin and why it's not always present. Now, researchers suggest that this temporary atmosphere appears...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

The flag-draped casket of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, was covered in plastic to protect it from a steady rain as it was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to his final resting place at Arlington Nati...

Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the super-Earth GJ 1132b. This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around a low-mass super-Earth, in terms of radius and mass the most Earth-like planet around which ...

NASA’s plucky, dependable spacecraft will burn up in the atmosphere after 13 years at the planet --

John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was laid to rest on April 6, four months after he died at the age of 95. The late astronaut, Marine Colonel and Senator was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virgin...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

If NASA's human spaceflight program is redirected back to the Moon, Blue Origin is ready to support it with its proposed "Blue Moon" lunar lander system, company president Robert Meyerson said April 5. SpaceNews.com

For the first time, researchers have detected an atmosphere around a planet just a little bit larger than Earth outside the solar system.

The Expedition 50 crew is checking out U.S. spacesuits today and testing tiny internal satellites for research. Three crew members are also packing up for a ride back to Earth on Monday....

Been missing the evening planets? Currently, Saturn and Venus rule the dawn, and Mars is sinking into the dusk as it recedes towards the farside of the Sun. That's been changing for one planet, however, as Jupiter reache...

Statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the interment Thursday of astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

A Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace from Europe's spaceport in Kourou will boost ESA's upcoming exoplanet satellite into space.