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The first observing run of a collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers to monitor our planetary neighbours has resulted in some of the best planetary images ever taken from the ground.

Last night (July 19) in the fictional television show "Salvation," where an asteroid will slam into the Earth in six months, engineers talked about the EmDrive -- an experimental engine that is supposed to break the laws...

In a recently published paper, Dr. Duncan Forgan proposed that alien civilizations could create a "galactic internet" by using artificial transits to communicate. The post Advanced Civilizations Could Build a Galactic In...

Inflight connectivity provider Gogo is causing sparks to fly over its claim that leasing capacity is superior to owning satellites and that proponents of pure satellite ownership are only promoting ownership models to pr...

Planet has won a second contract to provide satellite imagery to the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), beating out contenders UrtheCast, Orbital Insight and Sky Hawk Drone Services. SpaceNews.com

A bag Neil Armstrong used to collect the first ever samples of the moon--which was once nearly thrown out with the trash--sold at auction Thursday for $1.8 million, Sotheby's said.

It was midafternoon, but it was dark in an area in Boulder, Colorado on Aug. 3, 1998. A thick cloud appeared overhead and dimmed the land below for more than 30 minutes. Well-calibrated radiometers showed that there were...

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The sharp eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars. Because the moon is so small, it appears star-like in the Hubble pictures.

A football-shaped object just 16.5 miles by 13.5 miles by 11 miles, Phobos is one of the smallest moons in the solar system....

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: While photographing Mars, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a cameo appearance of the tiny moon Phobos on its trek around the Red Planet. Discovered in 1877, the diminu...

After 45 days in NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), the four-man crew can hardly hold their eyes open....

SpaceX no longer plans to have the next version of its Dragon spacecraft be capable of powered landings, a move that has implications for the company's long-term Mars plans.

Astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA, have provided a way for armchair astronomers, and even primary school children, to merely look at a spiral gala...

A new study supports the idea that the sculpting of Mars and its two small moons was largely determined by a huge impact early in the solar system's history.

There are asteroids and comets that are passing dangerously close to our planet and today we have no defense from these deep space threats. SpaceNews.com

Comic-Con is already underway with photos starting to emerge from the con floor.

"We are going to be the generation that is remembered for finding exoplanets. That's a fact," said Mercedes López-Morales from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. "Are we going to be also the generation that will be re...

"We are going to be the generation that is remembered for finding exoplanets. That's a fact," said Mercedes López-Morales from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. "Are we going to be also the generation that will be re...

One week in 2014, a 45-year-old snapshot unexpectedly went viral. Taken in 1969, the black-and-white photograph showed a young bespectacled woman, a wide grin on her face as she gingerly balances a tower of manuals, each...

Some scientists think the sun is part of a binary system and that it has a companion star that affects life on Earth.

Forty-eight years to the day after the team in NASA's Houston Mission Control guided the Apollo 11 astronauts to the first-ever landing on the moon, a crowd-funding campaign has launched to return Mission Control to its ...