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Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition of the planet and als...

“With Cassini, we had a rare opportunity and we seized it,” said Linda Spilker, Cassini Mission Scientist. And on Friday, September 15, we say goodbye to this incredible spacecraft. Since 2004, Cassini has been orbit...

A recent study involving data collected by the K2 mission has revealed three possible Super-Earths around a nearby Sun-like star. The post Three Possible Super-Earths Discovered Around Nearby Sun-Like Star appeared first...

NASA has signed a Space Act Agreement with a private organization currently raising funds for studies of a space telescope designed to look for habitable planets around a nearby star. SpaceNews.com

A study led by researchers from the ESO has discovered an extremely hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet that has titanium oxide in its atmosphere The post Astronomer Spot Hellish World with Titanium in its Atmosphere appeared fi...

A study led by researchers from the ESO has discovered an extremely hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet that has titanium oxide in its atmosphere The post Astronomers Spot Hellish World with Titanium in its Atmosphere appeared f...

Less than a week after arriving on the International Space Station, Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei will speak with students from the Pine River-Backus Schools in Pine River, Minnesota.

The Cassini spacecraft has spent the last two decades exploring Saturn and its unique moons, making discoveries that will advance space exploration for years to come. Scientific American editors Lee... --

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) are launching a new initiative to design a next-generation radio telescope with scienti...

The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $45.5 million contract Sept. 12 to provide Military Code (M-Code) Early Use (MCEU) capability to the Global Positioning System (GPS) but questions remain about when the servic...

Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied, egg-shaped exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition of the pl...

The House of Representatives passed an omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018 Sept. 14 that keeps funding for NASA and NOAA programs unchanged from earlier bills. SpaceNews.com

A new study using data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests ice may exist beneath smooth patches of the asteroid’s surface --

Speaking at the World Satellite Business Week here Sept. 13, executives of leading satellite manufacturers Thales Alenia Space, SSL, Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Orbital ATK, agreed that innovative approaches are ...

The final photos ever taken by NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter have begun coming down to Earth, and you can see them all.

Providing a user-friendly experience together with in-depth understanding of customers' needs will be key for the growth of Earth-observation data use in new markets in the upcoming years, according to industry leaders. ...

The accelerating expansion of the Universe may not be real, but could just be an apparent effect, according to new research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. A new study--by a gr...

Hong Kong-based fleet operator AsiaSat will soon order a "modest"-size high-throughput satellite (HTS) that will leverage the company's access to the Chinese market, Barrie Woolston, AsiaSat's chief commercial officer, s...

Operations image of the week: ESA mission control in 2005 as data arrive from the Huygens Titan lander, relayed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

In 2016 astronomers working in the USA postulated the presence of 'Planet 9' to explain the strange orbital properties of some Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt objects. But while it isn't possible to directly observe Planet 9, it h...

Hubble Space Telescope News: Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric comp...

An impactor smashing into an ice-rich surface gave rise to the complex flow features around this ancient crater on Mars.