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The ESA Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite captured imagery of the Netherlands capital. The European Space Agency's 'Earth from Space' series host Kelsea Brennan-Wessels gives the tour.

GSAT-9 carries 12 Ku-band transponders that India is offering to neighboring South Asian nations. SpaceNews.com

European launch provider Arianespace on May 4 completed its first launch since the end of French Guiana's five-week protest during which demonstrators seeking France's attention blocked access to the company's spaceport....

As it drives uphill from a band of rippled sand dunes, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is toting a fistful of dark sand for onboard analysis that will complete the rover's investigation of those dunes....

NASA's Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured a look at multiple fires and smoke burning in northwest India on May 05, 2017....

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

At a Senate hearing, SpaceX laid out its vision to provide global access to broadband internet with a "constellation of satellites". The post High-Speed Space Broadband for Everyone. SpaceX Details their Plans to Launch ...

A team of researchers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have spotted a wave of hot gas larger than the Milky Way in the Perseus galaxy cluster. The post A Single Wave, Bigger Than the Milky Way, is Rolling Through the ...

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: The WSH again welcomes Mathew Anderson, author of “Our Cosmic Story,” to the show. You may recall that Mathew joined us last fall just prior to the release of “Our Cosmic S...

Dark energy is the mysterious force causing the universe's accelerating expansion. Learn all about it in the second episode of the astrophysics video-explainer series "We Don't Planet."

The NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope has peered across six billion light years of space to resolve extremely faint features of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 that have not been seen before. Imaged below in stunning detail, Abell ...

This August, William Shatner will get closer to the final frontier than he ever did in his "Star Trek" days.

Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer Dr. Dan Coe talks to Space.com's Hanneke Weitering about imagery recently captured of galaxy cluster Abell 370 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A communications satellite built for a Bulgarian operator will be the second payload to launch on a previously-flown Falcon 9, that operator announced May 5. SpaceNews.com

Our week through the lens: 1-5 May 2017

Learn all about dark energy -- the mysterious force thought to be responsible for the universe's accelerating expansion -- in the second episode of the astrophysics video-explainer series "We Don't Planet."

With its dense and hydrocarbon-rich atmosphere, Titan has been a subject of interest for many decades. And with the success of the Cassini-Huygens mission, which began exploring Saturn and its system of moons back in 200...

With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" looks like a parched, sandy desert world. In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star ...

Ariane 5 has delivered two telecom satellites, SGDC and Koreasat-7, into their planned orbits.

ESA's sensitive tracking antennas at New Norcia, Western Australia, and Malargüe, Argentina (seen here in 2012), are being called in to help gather crucial science data during Cassini's last months in orbit, dubbed the ...

As it drives uphill from a band of rippled sand dunes, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is toting a fistful of dark sand for onboard analysis that will complete the rover's investigation of those dunes.

The annual, week-long Eta Aquarid meteor shower is predicted to reach its maximum on Saturday morning (May 6). This regular cosmic light show is produced by debris from Halley's Comet.