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A new video based on ESA's Gaia Mission lets you gaze into the crystal ball and watch the Milky Way galaxy evolve right before your eyes. The post Star-travel 5 Million Years Into The Milky Way’s Future appeared first ...

Now that its first batch of next generation satellites is in orbit and operational, mobile satellite services provider Iridium is preparing deorbit procedures for its legacy fleet of low-Earth orbit satellites that launc...

An international team of scientists, relying on data from XMM-Newton, have discovered a slowly-rotating pulsar that is slowly speeding back up The post An Aging Pulsar has Captured a new Companion, and it’s Spinning ba...

"Confirmation that the chemical energy for life exists within the ocean of a small moon of Saturn is an important milestone in our search for habitable worlds beyond Earth," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist ...

The last member of the first group of space shuttle astronauts to still work for NASA has retired after three decades of service. Anna Fisher, selected in 1978 among the first six U.S. women astronauts, left NASA to spen...

This was the company's inaugural launch for the US Department of Defense, and its ninth successful landing of its Falcon 9 booster --

On May 1, 2017, the private spaceflight company launched the NROL-76 satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Cameras on the ground and rocket captured footage of the Falcon 9 launch, 1st stage re-entry and land...

NanoRacks External Platform (NREP) Installation: The JEM (Japanese Experiment Module) Remote Manipulator System (JEMRMS) transferred and installed the NREP to the JEM External Facility (JEM-EF)....

Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the properties of dark matter, the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up a majority of matter in the universe. The study, which involves 1...

"How common are planets orbiting low-mass stars? Very common indeed," explained Courtney Dressing, an astronomer at UC Berkeley to scientists gathered at Stanford University to discuss discovering life outside the Solar ...

"How common are planets orbiting low-mass stars? Very common indeed," explained Courtney Dressing, an astronomer at UC Berkeley to scientists gathered at Stanford University to discuss discovering life outside the Solar ...

CEO Matt Desch said the next batch of 10 Iridium Next satellites is scheduled for launch June 29. SpaceNews.com

Gaze into Gaia's crystal ball and you will see the future. This video shows the motion of 2,057,050 stars in the coming 5 million years from the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution sample, part of the first data release of E...

SpaceX on Monday blasted off a secretive US government satellite, known only as NROL-76, marking the first military launch for the California-based aerospace company headed by billionaire tycoon Elon Musk.

Not interested in small-scale goals, the NEST-funded project led by geomatics engineer Michael Sideris aims to create and then link an enormous network of sensors with a goal of characterizing Earth systems from the core...

It's a new era for space travel. And if there's one thing that sets it apart from the previous one, it is the spirit of collaboration that exists between space agencies and between the public and private sector. And with...

Mars and Jupiter are the evening planets while Saturn and Venus are visible in the morning. The Virgo constellation is a great target this month. On the night of May 4-5, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks with up to 10...

It was a good week for astrobiology. Within days of NASA's announcement that the necessary ingredients for life exist in the plumes erupting from the southern pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus, scientists gathered at Stanf...

The company successfully landed the first stage booster after fairing separation of the NRO payload. SpaceNews.com

The Earth-Life Science Institute in Japan is a place where scientists are trying to maximize international collaboration in order to figure out how life formed on Earth.

Plans for NASA's next large-scale telescope, WFIRST, will undergo an independent review, to avoid future budget overruns and schedule delays, the agency announced Thursday (April 27).

A SpaceX Falcon rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (May 1) to boost a classified spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. military, then turned around and touched down at a nearby landing p...