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The relationships between France and Germany are key for the success of Europe in the increasingly competitive global space sector, Jean Pascal Le Franc, the French space agency CNES's director of programming, internatio...

Einstein's theory of general relativity has withstood 100 years of experimental scrutiny. However, these tests do not constrain how well the very strong gravitational fields produced by merging neutron stars obey this th...

Thirteen out of seventeen people accused by Turkey's government of attempting to cut off Turksat's satellite communications during last year's coup attempt have received "aggravated life sentences" for their actions, Tur...

NASA has awarded 24 Multiple Award Construction Contract Two (MACC-II) contracts to 20 small businesses and four under full and open competition to large firms for general construction services at NASA's Stennis Space Ce...

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Thanks to the over 500,000 pictures taken by the Cassini mission, Google Maps has created a mapping tool that allows users to virtually explore the Solar System. The post You Can Now Use Google Maps to Explore the Solar ...

It’s that time again! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

On Oct. 25, astronauts onboard the International Space Station plan to link NovaWurks' spacecraft building blocks in the first on-orbit test of a radically new approach to satellite design and manufacturing. SpaceNews.co...

"The first exomoons that we find will be large - maybe Mars- or even Earth-sized - and therefore intrinsically more likely to be habitable than small moons," said René Heller, at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics i...

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and, Oxford University's Nick Bostrom, one of the world's leading philosophers, believes that within the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet...

The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, lander and rover will track how lunar dust might scupper settlement --

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli checking his hands-free aid

A Canadian-led international team of astronomers recently discovered that spots on the surface of a supergiant star are driving huge spiral structures in its stellar wind. Their results are published in a recent edition ...

Airbus, as Juckenhöfel sees it, would be an indispensable contributor to the Deep Space Gateway, assuming it moves from concept to a bona fide program with European Space Agency involvement. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Juno spacecraft has plumbed the depths of Jupiter, revealing that the planet's famous bands of swirling winds extend thousands of kilometres down. The work is the sharpest glimpse yet into Jupiter's interior.

In 2016, scientists at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) produced mirrors with the highest reflectance ever reported in the farultraviolet (FUV) spectral range (100-200 nm). To develop these mirrors, the team developed ...

The world's collective imagination to answer the age-old question, "Are we alone," has been reignited now that we understand exoplanets - planets in orbit around stars other than Earth's Sun - are not uncommon. There's a...

The privately funded LightSail 2 spacecraft will make a test flight in Earth orbit --

Induction heating can completely change the energy budget of an exoplanet and even melt its interior. In a study published by Nature Astronomy an international team led by the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Aca...

An advanced space engine in the running to propel humans to Mars has broken the records for operating current, power and thrust for a device of its kind, known as a Hall thruster.

Saturn's graceful lanes of orbiting ice--its iconic rings--wind their way around the planet to pass beyond the horizon in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. And diminutive Pandora, scarcely larger than a pixel her...

European astronomers have spotted an unusual outburst activity of a binary star system known as AG Draconis. New observations reveal that the recent changes of brightness of this star are slightly different than the chan...