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NOAA and Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology agreed this month to scrap plans for a second set of next-generation GPS radio occultation weather satellites after determining the joint project faced an unwinnable b...

Students at New Prospect Elementary School in Alpharetta, Georgia, will speak with the NASA astronauts living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 10:50 a.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 23.

A new study by JAXA and international scientists has confirmed the existence of a stable lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the Moon. The post Stable Lava Tube Could Provide a Potential Human Habitat on the Moon app...

Automation could free up intelligence analysts to spend more time on hard problems that can't be turned over to a computer. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6A mission. Launch is currently targeted for November 2020, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust...

Mobile satellite services provider Iridium will use previously flown Falcon 9 first stages for its next two launches in order not to miss its mid-2018 goal for completing the Iridium Next constellation. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the Landsat 9 mission. The mission is currently targeted for a contract launch date of June 2021, while protectin...

One of the many interesting finds made by the Cassini orbiter before it crashed into Saturn was evidence of a hybrid, toxic ice cloud above Titan's southern pole. The post Forecast for Titan: Cold, with a Chance of Noxio...

Iridium Communications says its next two launches of new-generation satellites will use refurbished SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage boosters that have flown previously.

What appears to be a unique selfie opportunity was actually a critical photo for the cryogenic testing of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The photo was used to ve...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Mars has an invisible magnetic "tail" that is twisted by interaction with the solar wind, according to new research using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. NASA's Mars Atmosphere and ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA has authorized a second extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. During this extension, the spacec...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: When NASA scientists want to follow the path of the Curiosity rover on Mars, they can don a mixed-reality headset and virtually explore the Martian landscape. Starting ...

Since NASA's Dawn mission fits went into orbit around Ceres, evidence has been found for organic material on the dwarf planet, the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists using the spa...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Operations image of the week: Teams in Europe are driving a rover in Canada across a simulated Moonscape

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: In a nod to the global amateur astronomy community, as well as to any space enthusiast who enjoys the beauty of the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope mission is releasing its version ...

"My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it too," said Frances Arnold a chemical engineer at the California Institute of Technology, about implications t...

Mountains. Whales. The distant stars. All these things exist in space, and so do we. Our bodies take up a certain amount of space. When we walk to work, we are moving through space. But what is space? Is it even an actua...

Satellites have detected powerful solar flares in the last two months, but this phenomenon has been recorded for over a century. On 10 September 1886, at the age of just 17, a young amateur astronomer from Madrid, using ...

Black holes are some of the strangest and most mysterious objects in the universe.

Some of the brightest and swiftest shooting stars will bedazzle the night sky this year during the Orionid meteor shower, which will peak between Oct. 20 and 22 and continue through early November.