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The Common Ground Station 2.0 already is retrieving satellite data from a new ground station at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in addition to the ground station in Svalbard, Norway, that NASA and NOAA relied on in the firs...

Richard "Dick" Gordon, an Apollo-era NASA astronaut who became the fourth American to walk in space and one of 24 humans to fly to the moon, died Nov. 6, at age 88.

On the face of it, it looks like two of the world's biggest powers are racing to get astronauts back on the lunar surface. China is aiming to land crew on the moon by 2036, while on the other side of the Pacific, US vice...

Arianespace completed the company's tenth launch this year Nov. 7, delivering a Moroccan Earth observation satellite to low-Earth orbit on a Vega rocket. SpaceNews.com

To support scientific visualization of multiple-mission data from Mars, the Virtual Astronaut (VA) creates an interactive virtual 3D environment built on the Unity3D Game Engine....

If your company or organization uses a network, there are people who want to hack it. If you haven't tried to stop them, those hackers are probably already in your network. SpaceNews.com

NASA announced Nov. 8 that it is now planning a first launch of its Space Launch System rocket no earlier than December 2019, even as a review concluded the rocket isn't likely to fly until mid-2020. SpaceNews.com

Could the military take advantage of cheaper and faster satellite broadband to siphon more data, faster, from its surveillance drones? It could, but it's easier said than done, according to satellite industry executives....

The Expedition 53 crew explored ways to protect astronauts from space radiation as well as dust particles floating inside a spacecraft. The residents of the International Space Station also worked on cosmic ray gear, a U...

It's the celestial equivalent of a horror movie villain--a star that wouldn't stay dead. An international team of astronomers including Carnegie's Nick Konidaris and Benjamin Shappee discovered a star that exploded multi...

This past October, scientists from all over the world used the flyby of asteroid 2012 TC4 to test out the world's advanced warning systems. The post Astronomers Practice Responding to a Killer Asteroid” appeared first ...

Particle physicist Pauline Gagnon will discuss the importance of fundamental research to society during a live Webcast tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time --

In January of 2017, the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited Liu Cixin, China's preeminent science-fiction author of The Three-Body Problem (view video below), to visit the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope ...

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It's the celestial equivalent of a horror movie villain--a star that wouldn't stay dead.

In the government and military, there is a "great debate" on how to procure available satellite capacity. SpaceNews.com

Arianespace completed the company's tenth launch this year Nov. 7, delivering a Moroccan Earth observation satellite to low-Earth orbit on a Vega rocket.

"The Sound of Silence," by Disturbed -- a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's famous tune "The Sounds of Silence" -- complements the beauty of our planet in a new video released by NASA'S Johnson Space Center.

A Senate committee on Wednesday narrowly backed President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as the next NASA chief.

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg...

The Senate Commerce Committee voted strictly upon party lines Nov. 8 to send the nomination of Jim Bridenstine as NASA administrator to the full Senate for confirmation.

The pull of Ceres on NASA's Dawn spacecraft hints at an ancient ocean that may have left traces today.