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The "extremely dangerous" Category 4 Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico this morning, with sustained winds raging at up to 155 mph (250 k/h), according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

The military is confident that its own spacecraft are tightly encrypted and unlikely to be taken down by hackers. It worries, however, about the vulnerability of commercial satellites that host military payloads. SpaceNe...

A NASA study has located the Antarctic glaciers that accelerated the fastest between 2008 and 2014 and finds that the most likely cause of their speedup is an observed influx of warm water into the bay where they're loca...

SETI Institute: Presented by the SETI Institute and SRI, the next SETI Talks will feature SETI Institute scientist Matt Tiscareno. Matt has been working on Cassini since 2004, studying Saturn's rings using images from th...

"How can you really compare these great events in the geologic past, which occur over such vast timescales, to what's going on today, which is centuries at the longest?" says MIT geophysicist Daniel Rothman. "So I sat do...

Finding another James Webb to run NASA was no easy task. President Trump considered several excellent candidates, some of whom we personally admire, but in the spirit of Webb's leadership, U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine is th...

With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroi...

Researchers are proposing a fleet of tiny electric sail powered satellites to explore over 300 separate objects in the asteroid belt. The post 300 Asteroids to be Explored by a Fleet of Nanosatellites appeared first on U...

An aging German-American Earth science mission will come to an end this fall, months before the launch of a next-generation satellite pair. SpaceNews.com

A new study by a team from the University of Bordeaux has turned the Asteroid Belt's origins on its head, claiming it started empty and gradually filled up The post New Study Says Primordial Asteroid Belt was Empty appea...

Speaking at the VSAT Global conference in here Sept. 20, Kymeta's chief commercial officer Bill Marks said the company has received thousands of orders of its 70-centimeter Ku antennas and will start mass production next...

Air Force leaders generally agree that the service will need more skills in three key areas: space, cyber and intelligence. Where that talent will come from is still a matter of debate. SpaceNews.com

A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, with the support of NASA, has found evidence of subsurface ice on Vesta. The post Dawn Probe Finds Evidence of Subsurface Ice on Vesta appeared first on Universe To...

Space scientists urged Europe Wednesday to rethink its withdrawal from a futuristic, international dry-run for an Armageddon-like mission to deflect a space rock on a calamitous collision course with Earth.

"In space, we need new starts in order to take advantage of what industry can deliver if we are willing to invest there," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sept. 20 at the annual Air Force Association Air Space Cybe...

HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: An Asteroid That Split in Two 5,000 Years Ago Is Spouting a Comet Tail Astronomers categorize the minor bodies in the solar system according to their location and physical c...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission launched in 2016 to collect samples of the asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth. See photos from the mission here.

Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston used light waves to align the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror segments to each other, so they act like a single, monolithic mirror in the cryogenic cold of the cent...

'Star Trek' first aired more than 50 years ago, and with five network live-action TV series to choose from, this was a tough list to make.

Seen from space, these discs look more like modern art than potatoes.

The Milky Way, which is home to Earth and its solar system, is host to several dozen smaller galaxy satellites. These smaller galaxies orbit around the Milky Way and are useful in understanding the Milky Way itself. Earl...