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An initiative called "multi-domain command and control" is perhaps one of the most pressing priorities being pushed by Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein. SpaceNews.com

NASA is boosting cyber to space with benefits for Earth. On Nov. 20, 2017, a selfie snapped from the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station in Antarctica demonstrated technology that can enable the future interpla...

ESA is considering extending its activities to a new region of the sky via a novel type of aerial vehicle, a 'missing link' between drones and satellites.

A team of astronomers used data from both the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESA's Gaia satellite to directly measure the 3D motions of individual stars in a nearby galaxy....

Since astronomers first measured the size of an extrasolar planet 17 years ago, they have struggled to answer the question: how did the largest planets get to be so large?...

A new study from a team of Japanese researchers has shown that matter-antimatter annihilations happen as a result of lightning strikes. The post Every Time Lightning Strikes, Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Happens too ap...

The fourth SpaceX Falcon 9 mission for mobile satellite communications operator Iridium remains on track for Dec. 22, the company said today, assuaging concerns that the launch would be delayed along with other December ...

At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and bathed in intense ultraviolet light and X-ray radiation. These harsh conditions, ast...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Paolo Nespoli talks over amateur radio from the Space Station

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by my at the CosmoQuest blog.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: In just a few years, NASA's next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet. At a glance, it looks a lot like its predecessor, the Curiosity Mars rover. But th...

"Planets can be habitable and not have life with any impact," Arizona State astrophysicist Steve Desch told researchers at a recent workshop in Laramie, Wyoming on "Habitable Worlds" run by The Nexus for Exoplanet System...

NASA ground controllers have begun checking out and commissioning a shoebox-sized spacecraft that the agency purposely built to show that CubeSat platforms could be cost-effective, reliable, and capable of gathering high...

Over the course of 16 years, Saturn went from little more than a twinkle in the Cassini spacecraft's powerful telescopic eye to the probe's final resting place.

Controllers have been unable to contact a weather satellite launched on a Soyuz rocket from the country's new spaceport Nov. 28, raising fears of a launch failure.

"This research is groundbreaking," said Faith Vilas, the solar and planetary research program director at the National Science Foundation, which helped support the study. "This broadens our knowledge of the mix of molecu...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and bathed in intense ultraviolet and X-ray...

A photographer's never-seen images of NASA's space shuttles are set for publication. "First Fleet," a collection of John Chakeres' orbiter photos from 1981 to 1986, will be released by Daylight Books in 2018, pending a K...

"Research on early Earth's environments increases our chance of success by revealing processes and planetary properties that guide our search for life on nearby exoplanets," says Victoria Meadows, University of Washingto...

On November 24, Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto designated a spectacular uninhabited region of the Pacific Ocean at the southwestern coast of Mexico, the Revillagigedo Archipelago, a region as a protected area. Uniq...

(Phys.org)--A group of astronomers led by Qian Yang of the Peking University in Beijing, China, has detected 21 active galactic nuclei (AGN) of a rare type known as changing-look AGNs. The finding, reported November 22 i...

Scientists have detected living bacteria "from outer space" in samples collected from the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) during spacewalks, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov told Russia's state-owned TASS new...