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You can catch a glimpse of what its like to see NASA's Curiosity Mars rover simultaneously high overhead from orbit and trundling down low across the Red Planet's rocky surface as she climbs the breathtaking terrain of M...

An unknown, unseen "planetary mass object" may lurk in the outer reaches of our solar system...

4.5 billion years ago in the violent, high-speed environment of the early solar system, a protoplanet roughly the size of Mars was involved in a series of fierce collisions with other large planetary bodies....

Citing a long-term drought in satellite orders, Space Systems Loral has laid off a number of employees at its California satellite manufacturing facility, the company confirmed June 22. SpaceNews.com

Rep. Mike Rogers says Air Force "better shape up or they'll figure out who is in charge here," while Gen. David Goldfein says "now's not the time to build seems and segregate and separate." SpaceNews.com

Rep. Mike Rogers says Air Force "better shape up or they'll figure out who is in charge here," while Gen. David Goldfein says "now's not the time to build seems and segregate and separate." SpaceNews.com

Relying on Hubble and gravitational lensing, a team of astronomers made the unexpected discovery of a galaxy that ceased star formation just three billion years after the Big Bang. The post Hubble Finds a Dead Galaxy tha...

Relying on Hubble and gravitational lensing, a team of astronomers made the unexpected discovery of a galaxy that ceased star formation just three billion years after the Big Bang. The post Hubble Finds a Dead Galaxy tha...

At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun's surface. They erupt as fast as 60 miles per second, and can reach lengths of 6,000 miles before collapsing. These are spicules, ...

The European Space Agency began funding a reusable rocket engine anticipated to be ready for a test-fire demonstration in 2020, the same year as the first launch of the future Ariane 6 rocket. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Yippy-ki-yay! Saturn rides the back of a prancing pony across the evening sky. See it the next clear night. The post Saturn Rides Bareback On The Galactic Dark Horse appeared first on Universe Today.

Media accreditation is now open for events around the conclusion of Cassini's mission at Saturn. The spacecraft, which has explored the ringed planet and its moons since 2004, will make a fateful plunge into Saturn's atm...

Jerry Nelson, an astronomer who designed advanced telescopes that help scientists glimpse far reaches of the universe, has died in California. He was 73.

The European Space Agency signed a contract with a German-British consortium Thursday to build eight more satellites for its Galileo satnav system, an alternative to America's GPS, the agency said Thursday.

Scheduled lift off is at 11:59 p.m. Eastern carrying a Cartosat-2 remote-sensing satellite. Also on board will be 30 smallsat secondary payloads from 15 countries. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected Lockwood Hills Federal, LLC of Herndon, Virginia, to provide institutional logistics management services for the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

ESA's director of telecommunications and integrated applications, Magali Vaissiere, joined 16 European satellite industry leaders at the Paris Air Show June 21 to sign a joint statement on collaborating on the Satellite ...

A Kentucky Fried Chicken sandwich is scheduled to travel into the stratosphere on Thursday (June 22) aboard one of World View Enterprise's Stratollite high-altitude balloon systems.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was placed in Johnson Space Center's historic Chamber A on June 20, 2017, to prepare for its final three months of testing in a cryogenic vacuum that mimics temperatures in space.

One of Hollywood's top directors will step into helm Han Solo.

If you asked a fighter pilot during World War II what he needed in a plane, he would say, "I want to turn inside the enemy," or superior maneuverability. Today, as we have firmly moved to space as the high ground, this m...