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Astronomers from the University of Amsterdam have offered an explanation for the formation of the Trappist-1 planetary system. The system has seven planets as big as the Earth that orbit close to their star. The crux, ac...

The Proton last launched almost exactly one year ago, having been grounded by technical issues since then. SpaceNews.com

A presentation at the June 6th AAS meeting confirms that our galaxy is inside an enormous cosmic void, the largest one ever discovered. The post At the Largest Scales, Our Milky Way Galaxy is in the Middle of Nowhere app...

The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt's mind into deep space--to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded close to a dim, red sun.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — MDA Corp.'s pending acquisition of DigitalGlobe will enhance the firm's ability to offer U.S. defense and intelligence agencies not only imagery, but analysis and answers, said Rob Zitz, SSL Govern...

WARSAW, Poland - The Polish subsidiary of satellite builder Thales Alenia Space, Poland's state-run defense group PGZ, and Warsaw University of Technology have signed a letter of intent on a project under which the partn...

A University of Oklahoma post-doctoral astrophysics researcher, Billy Quarles, has identified the possible compositions of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Using thousands of numerical simulations to identify ...

The T2K experiment just released its first batch of data, which could help answer why there is an apparent imbalance of matter and antimatter in the Universe. The post We’re One Step Closer to Knowing Why There’s Mor...

Vice President Mike Pence will helm the group overseeing U.S. civilian and military space activities --

Scientists are increasingly interested in making use of private space capabilities, including the promise of faster and less expensive space missions, but are struggling to identify funding to make those missions possibl...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft for its eleventh commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station June 1 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center's historic pad 39A. Dragon will lift into orbit ...

A wide variety of research relies on growing cells in culture on Earth, but handling these cells is challenging. With better techniques, scientists hope to reduce loss of cells from culture media, create cultures in spec...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt's mind into deep space -- to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded clos...

In February 2017, an international team of astronomers announced the discovery of a system of seven exoplanets as big as the Earth around a small star, Trappist-1. It was against the prevailing theories of planet formati...

"This star system seems to keep on giving! Following the discovery of sugars, we've now found methyl isocyanate. This family of organic molecules is involved in the synthesis of peptides and amino acids, which, in the fo...

The contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency seeks to allow analysts "to search and retrieve data from intelligence systems faster and more efficiently." SpaceNews.com

Russia's Proton rocket returned to service June 7, almost one year to the date from vehicle's last flight, delivering a U.S. telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. SpaceNews.com

After receiving a record-breaking number of applications to join an exciting future of space exploration, NASA has selected its largest astronaut class since 2000....

Always on the lookout for interesting events in the skies, astrophotographer Thierry Legault has captured an incredible video of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule traveling through space just 20 minutes after it launched from Ke...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gave a warm welcome to NASA's newest astronaut class at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston yesterday after the space agency announced their latest recruits.

"What people, including myself, used to think was that there was a cradle of humankind in East Africa about 200,000 years ago, and all modern humans descend from that population," says palaeoanthropologist Philipp Gunz f...

A Russian Proton-M booster rocket carrying a U.S. communications satellite has lifted off, a successful launch after a year-long break caused by manufacturing flaws.