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Technology image of the week: ESA's GomX-4B CubeSat is on the way to launch this September

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's sl...

An active region on the sun has rotated into view on the sun and seems to be growing rather quickly in this video captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory between July 5-11, 2017....

Larsen C, a floating platform of glacial ice on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula, is the fourth largest ice shelf ringing Earth's southernmost continent....

A fiscal year 2018 spending bill that will be marked up by the House Appropriations Committee July 13 includes record funding levels for NASA's planetary science program, but severely cuts a NOAA weather satellite progra...

The orbiting Expedition 52 trio continued exploring magnetized cell structures today and worked on advanced repair tasks. Also, a new crew is in Moscow getting ready for its launch in less than three weeks....

For several months, scientists have been keeping an eye on a piece of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf, waiting for the inevitable. And now it has happened. Sometime between July 10 and July 12, 2017 a trillion ton iceber...

The report found there were more than 1,450 active satellites in orbit at the end of last year, an increase of nearly 50 percent in five years. SpaceNews.com

One of the most significant finds to come from our ongoing exploration and research efforts of Mars is the fact that the planet once had a warmer, wetter environment. Between 4.2 and 3.7 billion years ago, the planet had...

Juno made history the other day when it conducted the closest pass in history to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and the photos are already coming in! The post Here They are! New Juno Pictures of the Great Red Spot appeared fi...

Moon Express, a company developing commercial lunar landers, said July 12 its first mission is still on schedule to launch by the end of this year in a bid to win the Google Lunar X Prize. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Last year, the existence of an unknown planet in our Solar system was announced....

An active region on the sun--an area of intense and complex magnetic fields--has rotated into view on the sun and seems to be growing rather quickly in this video captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory between Jul...

The Florida-based company is developing a family of spacecraft designed to help usher in a new age of low-cost space exploration, from the moon to Mars and beyond.

Recent research has found that the Earth's finely balanced oceans may be a consequence of the anthropic principle - more often used in a cosmological context - which accounts for how our observations of the Universe are ...

This large constellation contains the bright star Spica and many exoplanets and deep space objects.

It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion--and only 200 years to reach 7 billion, with temporary declines from events such as the Black Death. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer chi...

The smallest star yet measured has been discovered by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge. With a size just a sliver larger than that of Saturn, the gravitational pull at its stellar surface is about...

NASA is developing a new instrument to expand the boundaries of astronomy research. A team of scientists and technologists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is developing the High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Spect...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new "hot Jupiter" exoplanet with a short orbital period of just three and a half days. The newly detected giant planet, designated KELT-20b, cir...

Though the Webb telescope will be enveloped in darkness, the engineers testing the telescope will be far from blind. "There are many thermal sensors that monitor temperatures of the telescope and the support equipment," ...