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As Senate appropriators prepare to mark up a NASA spending bill, agency officials are both downplaying the effects of proposed cuts on its Earth science program while also hoping the Senate reverses them.

A Simorgh rocket, reportedly based on North Korea's Unha vehicle, launched from a new facility, the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran. The U.S. government criticized the launch, saying it violated a U.N. Security Counci...

People have observed total solar eclipses since ancient times, but it wasn't until the 19th century that people figured out how to photograph them.

NASA has selected nine proposals under its Explorers Program that will return transformational science about the Sun and space environment and fill science gaps between the agency's larger missions; eight for focused sci...

Hotels have been sold out for years. Eclipse viewing glasses are back-ordered on Amazon. People are charging thousands for a one-night stay in their homes. There are T-shirts, mugs, posters, books, iPhone cases, pillows ...

NASA scientists have definitively detected the chemical acrylonitrile in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, a place that has long intrigued scientists investigating the chemical precursors of life.

Commercial satellite operators will probably order half as many geosynchronous satellites this year than usual, deepening a drought that has affected satellite manufacturers for the past two years, MDA Corp. President an...

The Soyuz MS-05 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 11:41 a.m. EDT Friday, July 28 (9:41 p.m. in Baikonur)....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA scientists are excited about the upcoming close flyby of a small asteroid and plan to use its upcoming October close approach to Earth as an opportunity not only f...

A Soyuz space capsule successfully blasted off for the International Space Station on Friday, carrying an American astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and an Italian astronaut.

55 Cancri e is a super-Earth exoplanet with a super-hot surface. Temperatures could be as high as 4,892 F (2,700 C).

Months of anticipation have finally culminated in the successful launch of three experienced new crewmembers up toward the International Space Station.

This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars is the spiral galaxy NGC 4248, located about 24 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).

Our week through the lens: 24-28 July 2017

(Phys.org)--A team led by David Kipping of Columbia University has spotted what might be the first evidence of an exomoon. They have written a paper describing their findings and have uploaded it to the arXiv preprint se...

For many years astronomers have struggled to get good-quality 3-D data of galaxies. Although this technique is very powerful as it allows researchers to "dissect" objects, this was a slow process as each galaxy had to be...

For the first time, NASA will use an actual space rock for a tabletop exercise simulating an asteroid impact in a densely populated area. The asteroid, named 2012 TC4, does not pose a threat to Earth, but NASA is using i...

On 27 July 2017, the newly built Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) station in Ireland will be officially opened. This extends the largest radio telescope in the world, connecting to its central core of antennas in the north of...

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of the CNES French Space Agency, and Josef Aschbacher, Director of ESA's Earth Observation P...

A team of astronomers has potentially discovered a signal detected by Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope from Kepler moon-1625b I orbiting around a a G-type star that lies some 4,000 light-years from Earth. This is the first ...

Mars 160 crewmember Paul Knightly is chronicling life and science on The Mars Society's Twin Desert-Arctic Analog simulation. Here's his second post from the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station, in the Canadian arctic...

Learn all about neutrinos -- ghostly, chargeless particles that hardly ever interact with normal matter -- in the 14th episode of the astrophysics-explainer video series "We Don't Planet."