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Now is a great time to see the constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, in the night sky.

Energia announced last September it was selling Sea Launch to the S7 Group, a Russian company whose holdings include an airline. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, is an X-ray telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in early June 2017. Installed on the International Space Station, by mid-July it will commence its s...

It's just the third launch from the Defense Department to be competitively bid between ULA and SpaceX. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Just days after celebrating its first anniversary in Jupiter orbit, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the gas giant's iconic, 10,0...

Vice President Mike Pence will visit NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 6.

Subaru Telescope images reveal weather in Jupiter's atmosphere in the mid-infrared. Those images, taken multiple times over several months, support Juno spacecraft mission of National Aeronautics and Space Administration...

Statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot about Friday's Executive Order creating the National Space Council.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited executive order June 30 re-establishing the National Space Council. SpaceNews.com

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

RBC Signals, a company that provides a global network of ground stations by using excess capacity from existing facilities, has signed up a company developing a small satellite constellation as an early customer. SpaceNe...

Not all galaxies have the luxury of possessing a simple moniker or quirky nickname. This impressive galaxy imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the unlucky ones, and goes by a name that looks more like...

British small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) is closing down a Denver factory in favor of centralizing spacecraft production back in the United Kingdom. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: On the first day of the year 1801, Italian astronomer Gioacchino Giuseppe Maria Ubaldo Nicolò Piazzi found a previously uncharted "tiny star" near the constellation of...

After delivering about 6,000 pounds of cargo, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station on Sunday, July 2. NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of Dra...

Jupiter is a strange, alien world of Mars-sized polar cyclones, colossal swirling storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a gigantic magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to...

After a half-century hiatus, the agency is reviving its reactor development with a test later this summer --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Not all galaxies have the luxury of possessing a simple moniker or quirky nickname. This impressive galaxy imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the unlucky ones, and...

Sentinel-2A takes us to the Vanuatu archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, roughly 1700 km east of Australia. The islands we see are Pentecost to the north and Ambrym to the south....

A pair of NASA astronauts are almost finished packing the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship and are training for its Sunday morning departure. The three-member Expedition 52 crew also explored life science researching microgra...

Our week through the lens: 26-30 June 2017

There are no mechanics on Mars, so the next best thing for NASA's Curiosity rover is careful driving. A new algorithm is helping the rover do just that. The software, referred to as traction control, adjusts the speed of...