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The temperature of Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has begun to rise, signaling the beginning of the end of James Webb Space Telescope's cryogenic testing.

First observed by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, the strange spiky features are likely formed from sublimating methane --

Rocket Lab, the U.S.-New Zealand company developing the Electron small launch vehicle, said Sept. 26 that it will fly four cubesats from two companies on the rocket's next test flight late this year. SpaceNews.com

The International Space Station is once again providing a platform to test the growth of cabbage and lettuce for future human consumption in space. Aside from today's botany set up, the Expedition 53 crew also explored h...

The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA announced today that Russian will be contributing modules and a docking system to the Deep Space Gateway, scheduled for construction over the next decade. The post Russia Says ...

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A new study by members of the New Horizons team has provided an explanation for Pluto's mysteries "bladed terrain". The post New Study Provides Explanation for Pluto’s Giant Blades of Ice appeared first on Universe Tod...

Black-hole merger pinpointed with record accuracy by the LIGO and Virgo observatories --

Analysing a mixture of earth samples and meteorites, scientists from the University of Bristol have shed new light on the sequence of events that led to the creation of the planets Earth and Mars.

For decades, astronomers have tried to pin down why two of the most common types of active galaxies, known as Type I and Type II galaxies, appear different when observed from Earth. Although both galaxy types host voraci...

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves with both the LIGO and Virgo detectors....

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Ten years ago, NASA's Dawn spacecraft set sail for the two most massive bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Cere...

Lucas Ellerbroek's new book, "Planet Hunters" (Reaktion Books, 2017), traces the history of exoplanet discovery back to a time when the idea of planets beyond our solar system was just science fiction -- or heresy.

In August, detectors on two continents recorded gravitational wave signals from a pair of black holes colliding. This discovery, announced today, is the first observation of gravitational waves by three different detecto...

While people across the nation gazed at August's total solar eclipse from Earth, a bread loaf-sized NASA satellite had a front row seat for the astronomical event.

"We left the world informed, but still wondering, and I couldn't ask for more," said Cassini project manager Earl Maize at a press conference on September 13, just before mission end. "We've got to go back -- we know it....

First observed by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, the strange spiky features are likely formed from sublimating methane --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: While people across the nation gazed at August's total solar eclipse from Earth, a bread loaf-sized NASA satellite had a front row seat for the astronomical event. The Radiometer Asses...

WASHINGTON and MOSCOW -- Five years ago this month, Intelsat ordered the first of what is now six high-throughput Epic-class satellites. That soon-to-be global network is now mostly in orbit, with the fifth satellite, In...

The spectacular planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles, lit up in glorious pinks and blues captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very La...

Now available is the September 20, 2017 NASA Future In-Space Operations (FISO) telecon material. The speakers were Ryan Whitley (NASA HQ) and Markus Landgraf (ESA ESTEC) who presented "International Human Lunar Surface S...

Astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered four of Saturn's moons, determined the distance from Earth to Mars and made successful measurements of longitude.