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Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can have anatomical, beha...

Thuraya's former CEO, Samer Halawi, has joined satellite internet startup OneWeb, moving from Dubai to the United States to help the company launch a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites. SpaceNews.com

The agency awarded $20,000 each to Cislunar Explorers, CU-E3 and Team Miles, three teams in NASA's Cube Quest Challenge. SpaceNews.com

Global fleet operator SES says it could join the race to build the world's highest-throughput satellites if it wanted to, but doesn't believe such spacecraft will be effective at serving customers. SpaceNews.com

An international team of astronomers using data from the rejuvenated Kepler space telescope have discovered a rare gem: A binary system consisting of a failed star, also known as a brown dwarf, and the remnant of a dead ...

University of South Florida associate professor Dominic D'Agostino, PhD, is one of four crew members selected for the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 22 expedition. He is the only member not affiliate...

The Air Force declined to discuss how SpaceX got the contract and if it was sole-sourced. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected Bastion Technologies, Inc. (BTI), of Houston, to provide safety and mission assurance support services at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

South America's unique position in the world presents the opportunity to test out and develop new GEOINT capabilities, said U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, leader of U.S. Southern Command. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover in the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp on Mars,...

This seemingly unspectacular series of dots with varying distances between them actually shows the slow waltz of two brown dwarfs. The image is a stack of 12 images made over the course of three years with the NASA/ESA H...

Contrary to what we now think, it could be that it came from a violent impact that temporarily turned Earth into a "synestia" --

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Forshaw is a British particle physicist with an interest in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which is the study of the behavior of subatomic particles. Dr. Forshaw is the...

House members criticized a NASA budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 that would cancel several Earth science projects and close the agency's education office. SpaceNews.com

MOFFET FIELD, Calif. -- NASA announced plans June 8 to send three cubesats built by university students and moonlighting engineers into deep space on the first flight of the Space Launch System in 2019 as part of the spa...

Researchers from the University of Zurich have simulated the formation of our entire Universe with a large supercomputer....

Over a period of three years, a group of astrophysicists from the University of Zurich has developed and optimised a revolutionary code to describe with unprecedented accuracy the dynamics of dark matter and the formatio...

The three-member Expedition 52 crew is settling down with science and cargo transfers this week after a trio of space ships arrived and departed at the International Space Station. NASA also introduced 12 new astronaut c...

A seaborne sediment plume turns the Bering Sea green.

A dozen new candidates were chosen from more than 18,000 applicants. Now the real work begins --

Watching a meteor shower on a clear, dark night is an unforgettable experience.

Rosetta's detection of xenon provides the first link between comets and our atmosphere