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NASA has awarded an early extension to its concessionaire, Delaware North, to continue operating the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The extension comes as the visitor complex is about to mark its 50th a...

A telescope in Chile captured this incredible view of a nearby dwarf galaxy, which reveals millions of previously hidden stars that you can explore without stepping away from your computer.

The Canadian government will develop a radar instrument for NASA's future Mars orbiter as well as 13 cubesats to be deployed from the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

"This star hosts a planetary system currently undergoing the same cataclysmic processes that happened to the solar system in its youth, at the time in which the moon gained most of its craters, Earth acquired the water i...

A satellite launch delayed since March 20 due to a crippling general strike in French Guiana, will go ahead on Thursday, launch firm Arianespace said.

AstroPlant is a citizen science initiative that aims to inspire home-gardeners, schools, urban farmers and enthusiasts to nourish seeds selected by the MELiSSA team. Data recorded via a smartphone app will be sent to ESA...

The service wants the new event to hone warfighter's skills at operations, problem solving, and potential space conflict. SpaceNews.com

Six months after seeking information about instruments it could fly to the moon, NASA has issued a request for information for commercial systems that could transport payloads there. SpaceNews.com

Bricks have been 3D printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated sunlight - proving in principle that future lunar colonists could one day use the same approach to build settlements on the Moon....

The company said it suffered a net loss of $2.2 million on revenue of nearly $210 million in the quarter. SpaceNews.com

A Minuteman III rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 3, 2017.

An international team of researchers at the University of Calgary and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shown just how precarious the recovery of life was following Earth's greatest extinction event about 251.9 million...

The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center faces unique challenges because it uses an extensive array of ground systems - some decades old - to communicate with individual satellites. SpaceNews.com

As with most other telescopes, astronomers apply for observing time on SOFIA by submitting proposals that are being evaluated by peers for their scientific promise and intellectual merits. SOFIA, however, is special in t...

Fuel the future by joining ESA's Innovation Exchange on 8June to shape how we manage resources in space

The NASA Visualization Explorer App is now available to users with Android devices running version 5.0 or higher.

A mysterious abundance of high-energy light near the Milky Way's core likely isn't a sign of elusive dark matter after all, a new study suggests.

A wave of hot gas twice as wide as the Milky Way galaxy roils the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster, a new study indicates.

The first fleet of robotic spacecraft that humanity launches to explore nearby exoplanets may include a few kamikazes.

Despite decades of research and billions of dollars in investment, no one has a nuclear missile defense system that is remotely reliable, experts say.

(Phys.org)--Russian scientists have presented the first results of solar observations made with the new radioheliograph of the Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (SSRT). The Siberian Radioheliograph (SRH), has recently comme...

The Senate unanimously passed a bill May 2 intended to support space weather research and planning to protect critical infrastructure from solar storms. SpaceNews.com