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NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously unknown celestial objects in the last year. Of thos...

Is it a case of nature versus nurture when it comes to two "cousin" exoplanets? In a unique experiment, scientists used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study two "hot Jupiter" exoplanets. Because these planets are virtu...

Best known for his role on Star Trek, William Shatner wants to feature the next generation of NASA scientists. SpaceNews.com

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope: "When we look up and see the stars shining at night, we are seeing only part of the story," said Trent Dupuy of the University of Texas at Austin and a graduate of the Institute for Astron...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Is it a case of nature versus nurture when it comes to two "cousin" exoplanets? In a unique experiment, scientists used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study two "hot Jupiter" exoplan...

OneWeb officially called off its planned merger with Intelsat the evening of June 2 after the final deadline for a debt swap passed without enough support. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously unknown celestial objects in the last year....

Cassini's camera was pointing toward Saturn's rings, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters....

The latest discovery is the fieriest one yet, and researchers can’t wait to investigate --

GSLV Mk III-D1 launched GSAT-19 on Monday, June 05, 2017 from the Second Launch Pad (SLP) at Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota....

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

An ancient, red giant star in the throes of a frigid death has produced the coldest known object in the cosmos -- the Boomerang Nebula....

"It's a planet by any of the typical definitions based on mass, but its atmosphere is almost certainly unlike any other planet we've ever seen just because of the temperature of its day side," said Scott Gaudi, professor...

An ancient, red giant star in the throes of a frigid death has produced the coldest known object in the cosmos--the Boomerang Nebula. How this star was able to create an environment strikingly colder than the natural bac...

New information gleaned from gravitational wave observations is helping scientists understand what happens when massive stars die and transform into black holes.

NASA has appointed a new chief to lead its astronaut corps, just days before welcoming its latest group of trainees.

Planet announced plans June 5 to offer data from its constellation of global Earth-imaging cubesats through Harris Geospatial's ENVI desktop platform, which means customers will be able to use the data with ENVI image-an...

SpaceX's reused Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station today (June 5), becoming the first commercial spacecraft to make a second delivery to the orbiting laboratory.

An undisclosed customer is paying Capella Space $10 million upfront to gain access to the San Francisco startup's Synthetic Aperture Radar data stream. SpaceNews.com

Last year was the hottest on record, Arctic sea ice is on the decline and sea levels continue to rise. In this context, satellites are providing us with an unbiased view of how our climate is changing and the effects it ...

Imagine a planet like Jupiter zipping around its host star every day and a half, superheated to temperatures hotter than most stars and sporting a giant, glowing gas tail like a comet.