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A new NASA competition will reward the best aerosol sensor design, intended to help protect astronauts on the International Space Station.

The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite, the first in a new series of four highly advanced National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar-orbiting satellites, now is scheduled to launch on Tue...

Surface features on Ceres--the largest world between Mars and Jupiter--and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think.

EchoStar is not raising a new competitor by investing in and building technology for OneWeb's low-Earth orbit constellation, a company executive said Nov. 10. SpaceNews.com

Turnock: "We simply see the strong benefit to the U.K. remaining involved in the European Space Agency." SpaceNews.com

A team from NASA's Glenn Research Center recently demonstrated a new class of electronics, which would be capable of operating on Venus for extended periods of time. The post Building Electronics That Can Work on Venus a...

Light from a supernova explosion in the nearby starburst galaxy M82 is reverberating off a huge dust cloud in interstellar space.

Music created entirely from data beamed back from the Voyager 1 spacecraft will receive its world premiere at the NASA booth at the SC17 Supercomputing Conference in Denver, Colorado, at 8pm local time (MST) on Monday, 1...

Light from a supernova explosion in the nearby starburst galaxy M82 is reverberating off a huge dust cloud in interstellar space....

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory came across a rare phenomenon this week when their spacecraft observed a dark filament encircling an active region (Oct. 29-31, 2017). Solar filaments are clouds of charged particles tha...

NASA could sidestep many of the impediments to a Mars mission if they could just get there faster. But sluggish chemical rockets aren't cutting it -- and one group of engineers is rebooting research into an engine last f...

Actress Rosario Dawson has moved from treating superheroes to an audio treatment of "Artemis," the new book by "The Martian" author Andy Weir.

Two astronauts are training for Monday's planned arrival of Orbital ATK's newest Cygnus cargo craft dubbed the S.S. Eugene Cernan. The crew is also analyzing the International Space Station's atmosphere and studying how ...

Yesterday (Nov 6), the U.S. Air Force Research Lab signed a $26.3 million contract with Lockheed Martin to develop high-energy laser weapons that are lightweight and compact enough to be mounted on fighter jets.

A team of NASA scientists wants to draw a more complete picture of where water exists on the Moon and whether it migrates across the lunar surface, including in the permanently shadowed regions that haven't seen sunlight...

A massive magma plume is surging against the crust beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, but that isn't why the ice is melting.

Like finding a needle in a haystack of haystacks

"People have known about the fossils in Antarctica since the 1910-12 Robert Falcon Scott expedition," said Erik Gulbranson, a paleoecologist with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of Geosciences. "Howeve...

Scientists from the Portegese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere caught captured the rare frilled shark aboard a trawler, where they were working on a European Union project to "minimise unwanted catches in commercial ...

As the deadline nears for an Air Force competition to fund development of new launch vehicles, Orbital ATK announced Nov. 7 what it called an "important milestone" for its proposed launcher. SpaceNews.com

Human Spaceflight image of the week: ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli's room with an atypical view

NASA's Orion spacecraft aims to send humans further into space than ever before, and ESA's European Service Module will provide the essentials for keeping the astronauts alive and on course. A review of the programme by ...