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An unnamed senior defense official said that, in the event of a conflict with an adversary like China, the Navy and Army will need to cooperate using simple, low-bandwidth communications. SpaceNews.com

One year after giving a whiplash-inducing revision to revenue forecasts from growth to contraction, French satellite operator Eutelsat hit the markers it set out for a return to growth by 2019. SpaceNews.com

NASA has awarded the Laboratory Support Services and Operations (LASSO) contract at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to URS Federal Services Inc., an AECOM company, of Germantown, Maryland.

A little bit of "scruff" in scientific data 50 years ago led to the discovery of pulsars--rapidly spinning dense stellar corpses that appear to pulse at Earth.

This October, an asteroid will pass Earth by, thus giving NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) a chance to test their new detection and tracking network The post Impending Asteroid Flyby Will be a Chance t...

A gold replica of a lunar landing module gifted to US astronaut Neil Armstrong by French jewlers has been pilfered from an Ohio museum, with security footage offering little help to police.

NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to further develop the concept for a small satellite mission to image the Sun's outer corona. SwRI's "Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere" (PUNCH) program...

After four decades of searching, solar scientists have at long last found evidence of a type of seismic wave in our Sun....

"This is certainly the biggest result of NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, in the last decade, and one of SOHO's all-time top discoveries," said Bernhard Fleck, ESA's SOHO project scientist based at NAS...

The image of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out is probably one of most ubiquitous (and memorable) photos of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazed toward high southern latitudes near Saturn's south pole to observe ghostly curtains of dancing light -- Saturn's southern auroras, or southern lights. These natural light displays at the p...

A curling tongue of clouds reaches out to taste the Iberian Peninsula in a new satellite image.

Hundreds of scientists worldwide currently use an online application that accesses at least one terabyte of data to calculate everything from the spectrum of an exoplanet and the weather on Mars to the chemical makeup an...

Big discoveries in science are often made when innovative instruments probe nature in new ways. Laser SETI will search the sky for a variety of pulsed light signals that might have been overlooked before. They may find E...

Mass extinction can take 10,000 years or less--the blink of an eye, by geological standards--but its effects on the evolutionary trajectory of life are still observable today. A new study by a researcher in the Syracuse ...

Scientists dealt a blow Monday to the quest for organisms inhabiting worlds besides Earth, including Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus within our own solar system, saying our planet was unusual in its abi...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A little bit of "scruff" in scientific data 50 years ago led to the discovery of pulsars - rapidly spinning dense stellar corpses that appear to pulse at Earth. Astronomer Jocelyn Bell...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. from coast to coast in 99 years is not only a must-see spectacle but also a valuable scientific opportunity --

Big discoveries in science are often made when innovative instruments probe nature in new ways. Laser SETI will search the sky for a variety of pulsed light signals that might have been overlooked before. We may find ET,...

The sun's core rotates nearly four times faster than the sun's surface, according to new findings by an international team of astronomers. Scientists had assumed the core was rotating like a merry-go-round at about the s...

The Perseid meteor shower this year -- which peaks Aug. 12 -- will be sandwiched between a lunar eclipse and the much-heralded 2017 total solar eclipse, marking a month of excitement in the night (and daytime) sky.