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It only takes a simple compass to demonstrate that the earth has a magnetic field - but it is quite difficult to explain how exactly it is created....

Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have discove...

Pace, currently the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, previously worked at NASA and other agencies involved with space issues before joining the Space Policy Institute. SpaceNews.com

Satellite manufacturer and hardware provider MDA Corp. and Earth-observation company DigitalGlobe have re-submitted paperwork to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) after cancelling the origi...

A Soyuz rocket successfully launched 73 satellites, including spacecraft for four companies' cubesat constellations, July 14. SpaceNews.com

US lawmakers on Friday advanced a defense bill that includes a provision to establish a new branch of the military--dubbed "Space Corps"--that would focus on space operations.

Scott Pace, the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, will be the Council’s executive secretary --

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

Members of the space community, including those who have previously worked on space policy issues at the White House, are guardedly optimistic that the newly reconstituted National Space Council will help guide national ...

"We are very much enamoured with our system engineering processes in the Department," said Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, the leader of Air Force Material Command. SpaceNews.com

Astroscale, a Singapore-based startup focused on space debris mitigation, has raised $25 million from investors in Japan, including aviation company ANA Holdings and industrial machinery provider OSG Corp. SpaceNews.com

Scientists have long held the belief that planets - including Earth - were built from rocky asteroids, but new research challenges that view.

It was two years ago this morning that we awoke to see the now iconic image of Pluto that the New Horizons spacecraft had sent to Earth during the night. You, of course, know the picture I'm talking about - the one with ...

An imaging satellite and 72 micro-satellites were launched into orbit Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and research centre Glavcosmos announced.

The Senate Armed Services Committee's markup of their version of the NDAA doesn't include the Space Corps proposal, instead focusing on bolstering space operations along different lines. SpaceNews.com

NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers will join industry and academia for a three-day, in-depth conversation about the International Space Station (ISS) as a catalyst for discovery during the sixth annual ISS Researc...

Two people who served on the NASA transition team for the Trump administration said July 11 they don't expect the White House to rush the development of a new national space policy.

Type 1a supernovae -- the "standard candles" of the universe -- occur when two stars are born together but go through their life stages at different times. Learn all about these star explosions in the 12th episode of "We...

Discovered by British astronomer William Herschel over 200 years ago, NGC 2500 lies about 30 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Lynx. As this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows, NGC 2500 i...

Discovered by British astronomer William Herschel over 200 years ago, NGC 2500 lies about 30 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Lynx....

The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies, according to a new Oxford University collaboration. "Tardigrades are a...

NASA astronauts training for a possible mission to Mars have been practicing water maneuvers in a mock-up Orion space capsule in the Gulf of Mexico.