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The Chang’e 5 spacecraft could return invaluable new moon rocks to Earth, but who will get to study them? --

For the first time astronomers have measured how a galaxy's spin affects its shape.

Fleet operator SES placed a seven-satellite order with Boeing Satellite Systems International to build a second generation of O3b satellites that will have more than triple the capacity of ViaSat's future ViaSat-3 conste...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Cassini spacecraft is headed toward its Sept. 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final, distant flyby of the planet's giant moon Titan.

While still more than a year away from a flyby of a distant object in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, the team running NASA's New Horizons mission is already looking ahead to future extended missions that could include a...

The largest solar flare in twelve years was recently witnessed by a team of UK scientists, and could teach us a great deal about predicting space weather The post Unexpected Solar Flare is Also the Largest in Twelve Year...

New observations of the white dwarf/red dwarf binary star 40 Eridani BC by astronomers at the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) have revealed new, definitive values for the orbital period and masses of the components of this...

When NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunges into the atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, ending its 20 years of exploration, astronomers will observe the giant planet from Earth, giving context to Cassini's final measurements.

Today - Lighting Effects: The crew completed a visual assessment test in the Crew Quarters (CQs) by setting the light to the correct mode, turning all other light sources in the CQ off, and performing one Numerical Verif...

A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has demonstrated that gravitational waves could be detected coming from exploding stars The post Gravitational Waves will let us see Inside Stars as Supernovae Happ...

The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2017. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful burst...

One of Cassini's last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance

A small metal sphere with protruding booms is poised to launch on a Russian rocket into Earth orbit, replicating and paying tribute to the achievement that began the Space Age 60 years ago.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

"Nix the Aliens" --NASA Space Telescopes Provide an Answer to Enduring Mystery of Tabby's 'Megastructure' Star (VIDEO) "Lost World!" --Antarctica's Unexplored Volcano Caves Harbor Unknown Species Is Our Solar System Bein...

"We chose these two moons because of their potential to exhibit chemical signatures of astrobiological interest," said Heidi Hammel, executive vice president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (...

Mars' atmosphere is too thin to support life as we know it. And it's very dusty. The red planet has the largest dust storms in the solar system.

(Phys.org)--By conducting an orbital analysis, a team of astronomers led by Luis Martinez-Medina of the National Autonomous University of Mexico has uncovered new details about the origin and evolution of the old, metal-...

@AstroKomrade What a difference a week makes, Turks and Caicos before and after #Irma....

American Astronomical Society: Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) is collecting eclipse-viewing glasses from across the US to send to schools in South America and Asia for use during solar eclipses that cross those contin...

During the week of Sept. 5, spacecraft captured imagery of hurricane Irma as the storm reached category 5 status in the Atlantic Ocean....

Airbus has been tapped by the European Space Agency to build a demonstrator system that would enable dynamic sharing of government satellite capabilities between European Union member states. SpaceNews.com