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That satellite, Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, incorporates improved power, propulsion and electronics systems and advanced manufacturing techniques to reduce costs. The spacecraft will now go into final assembly and testin...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA has selected six astrophysics Explorers Program proposals for concept studies. The proposed missions would study gamma-ray and X-ray emissions from clusters of gal...

On Monday, Aug. 21, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the Sun, and NASA Television will carry it live from coast to coast from unique vantage points on the ground and from aircraft and spacecraft, inc...

NASA has awarded a contract to RS&H, Inc. of Merritt Island, Florida, for architectural engineering and design services for the modification of the mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA has awarded a contract to Paragon TEC, Inc. of Cleveland to provide acquisition and business support services at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and its Michoud Assembly Facility in...

A new study by a team from UCI indicates that black hole mergers could be very common, which has implications for the study of black holes and gravitational waves The post Cosmic Census Says There Could be 100 Million Bl...

Anyone who has been using online maps to decide where they intend to view the historic Aug. 21 total eclipse of the sun may want to take another look.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

When a solar eclipse plunges the country into darkness Aug. 21, Nathaniel Frissell will be stationed directly along the shadow's path, leading one of the largest ionospheric experiments in the history of space science fr...

Italian small satellite builder Sitael has signed Virgin Orbit to send a technology demonstration satellite into low-Earth orbit next year. SpaceNews.com

Two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station Thursday, Aug. 17, to deploy several nanosatellites, collect research samples and perform structural maintenance.

A team of European astronomers accurately measured the orbit of a star around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky way, thus confirming predictions made by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. The p...

If you are looking forward to the August 21 solar eclipse as much as we are, you'll want to check out a new series on CuriosityStream called "Eclipse Across America." The four-part series takes an inside preview at this ...

Learn all about pulsars -- neutron stars that seem to blink on and off superfast -- in the 16th episode of the astrophysics-explainer video series "We Don't Planet."

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

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: If we want to know more about whether life could survive on a planet outside our solar system, it's important to know the age of its star. Young stars have frequent releases of high-energy...

Production of the five-segment powerhouse motors for the Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters is on target at prime contractor Orbital ATK's facilities in Utah, with 10 motor segments cast with propellant and ...

On Sept. 30, 2014, multiple NASA observatories watched what appeared to be the beginnings of a solar eruption. A filament--a serpentine structure consisting of dense solar material and often associated with solar eruptio...

Teledyne Brown Engineering plans to install a hyperspectral imager built by the German Aerospace Center, DLR, in the firm's International Space Station observatory in March. SpaceNews.com

A new experiment set for an Aug. 14 launch to the International Space Station will provide an unprecedented look at a rain of particles from deep space, called cosmic rays, that constantly showers our planet. The Cosmic ...

The world's smallest space probe, conceived at Menlo Park's visionary Breakthrough Starshot, has phoned home.

Think of the ease. With a simple command of “Make it so” humans travelled from one star to the next in less time than for drinking a cup of coffee. At least that’s what happens in the time-restricted domain of tele...