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MERRITT ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, FL - Elon Musk's SpaceX is primed for another significant space first; the firms first launch of a spy satellite for the US governments super secret spy agency; the National Recon...

European launch provider Arianespace has established new launch dates in May and June for an Ariane 5 and a Soyuz mission that were delayed by four weeks of civil unrest in French Guiana. SpaceNews.com

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, seen a cosmic magnification of the light from a class of supernova called Type Ia....

The ESA and Chinese National Space Agency have announced their plans to create a "Moon Village" on the lunar surface by the 2020s. The post Europe & China Discuss Moonbase Partnership appeared first on Universe Today.

Scientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit our sun....

Today: NanoRacks External Platform (NREP) Operations: The crew pressurized the Japanese Experiment Module Airlock (JEMAL), performed a leak check and extended the JEMAL Slide Table (ST) into the JEM Pressurized Module (J...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Toting a $12 million instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made the first of 22 dives between the rings of Saturn and the gaseous planet today, the beginning of the end for one...

On the rust-colored north flank of one of Earth's largest volcanoes, a backpack-sized instrument monitors our atmosphere and, at the same time, helps set the stage for possible human exploration of other worlds.

The maneuver marks the final phase of Cassini’s mission, and promises the closest-ever investigation of Saturn --

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make its first dive through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings on April 26, 2017. Because that gap is a region no spacecraft has ever explored, Cassini will use its dish-shape...

A new report finds that NASA's spacewalking suits are in short supply. The suits were developed more than 40 years ago, and a replacement is still years away. That's despite nearly $200 million spent on new suit technolo...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ventured Wednesday into the never-before-explored region between Saturn and its rings.

Content and satellite-connectivity provider Global Eagle Entertainment shot down swirling concerns that its recent changes in executive leadership and concurrent overdue financial statements were the result of any misbeh...

Large and small scale solar eruptions might all be triggered by a single process, according to new research that leads to better understanding of the Sun's activity.

Building on the ability to sequence DNA in space and previous investigations, Genes in Space-3 is a collaboration to prepare, sequence and identify unknown organisms, entirely from space. When NASA astronaut Kate Rubins ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

As galaxies age, some of their basic chemical elements can also show signs of aging. This aging process can be seen as certain atoms "put on a little weight," meaning they change into heavier isotopes--atoms with additio...

NASA's record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitsonisn't finished making firsts in space. And today, Whitson will make the first ultra-high-definition live video from the International Spaec Station and you can watch it live.

Today, Google is honoring NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn with an adorable Google Doodle featuring the spacecraft swooping between the planet and its rings.

Controllers and scientists must wait until Thursday to hear from the Cassini spacecraft that was due early on Wednesday to make the first of 22 dives in between Saturn's cloud tops and the inner edge of its spectacular r...

The intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on April 26, 2017.