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Last month's budget proposal included terminating four planned or operational missions designed at least in part to collect climate-related data. SpaceNews.com

NASA astronaut and Expedition 51 commander Peggy Whitson will take viewers 250 miles off the Earth to the International Space Station in the highest resolution video ever broadcast live from space at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Wed...

One of the NASA astronauts training for commercial crew test flights said he expects the agency to make crew assignments for them as soon as this summer. SpaceNews.com

NASA commercial cargo provider Orbital ATK is targeting its seventh commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for 11:11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 18. Coverage of the launch begins at 10 a.m. o...

Images taken by NASA's New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Instit...

The Event Horizon Telescope’s historic quest to image the “shadow” of a supermassive black hole is off to an auspicious start --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Dave Davis, Global Eagle Entertainment's chief executive from July 2014 until February this year, left the company at the same time as Chief Financial Officer Tom Severson. Their departure also coincided with the company...

Bill Nye, the popular science communicator and CEO of the Planetary Society, wants you to sport this spaced-out, exclusive shirt design to support space science and exploration at the March for Science taking place on Ap...

Using the Very Large Telescope array, an international team of astronomers has discovered a previously undetected cold spot on Jupiter that measures 8,700 miles wide and 7,500 miles across --comparable in scale to famous...

A large dark spot in the planet's high-altitude thermosphere has been found to be 200K (Kelvin) cooler than the surrounding atmosphere, which can range from 700K (426º C) and 1000K (726º C).

French astronomers discover the brightest auroras on Uranus ever seen, and they look ... weird. The post Hubble Sees Intense Auroras on Uranus appeared first on Universe Today.

A solar eruption on Sept. 26, 2014, seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory affecting the ionosphere in all of Earth's northern latitudes. If erupted solar material reaches Earth, it can deplete the electrons in the up...

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of space debris. This material ranges from dead satellites and rocket stages to fragments of material and even flecks of paint... and all this junk could do enormous damage to working satel...

Black holes are not made up of matter, although they have a large mass. This explains why it has not yet been possible to observe them directly, but only via the effect of their gravity on the surroundings. They distort ...

A second Great Spot has been discovered on Jupiter by University of Leicester astronomers, rivalling the scale of the planet's famous Great Red Spot and created by the powerful energies exerted by the great planet's pola...

(Phys.org)--Using a gravitational microlensing technique, astronomers have detected a substellar companion of a host star in the system designated MOA-2012-BLG-006L. The new object is assumed to be a high-mass giant plan...

Billionaire Jeff Bezos recently discussed new details of Blue Origin's New Shepard space tourism program, noting that there will be no bathrooms and no barf bags.

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has spotted iron, magnesium and sodium ions -- electrically charged atoms -- high up in the Red Planet's atmosphere over the past two years, a new study reports.

This may look like a brightly decorated Easter egg wrapping, but it actually represents how ESA's Gaia satellite scanned the sky during its first 14 months of science operations, between July 2014 and September 2015.

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced a second phase of the company's consolidation plan April 10 that includes moving development of rocket engines from a decades-old California facility. SpaceNews.com

New research on solar storms finds that they not only can cause regions of excessive electrical charge in the upper atmosphere above Earth's poles, they also can do the exact opposite: cause regions that are nearly deple...