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STRATCOM Commander Hyten frustrated with DoD procurement: 'There's not enough money in the Pentagon's budget to buy another constellation of billion-dollar satellites' SpaceNews.com

As the two companies developing commercial crew vehicles prepare for test flights in the next 12 months, a NASA official said the agency expects those companies to be able to meet, or come close to, stringent safety requ...

Canadian remote sensing company UrtheCast and Beijing Space View Technology have teamed up to offer imagery from each other's satellites to their customers, the companies announced Dec. 4. SpaceNews.com

Part of the excitement of the possibility of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon, Europa, says Brandon Johnson at Brown University, "is that surface crust is enriched with oxidants and other chemical food for life. Subduct...

"For decades," says Aubrey de Grey, "my colleagues and I had been earnestly investigating aging in the same way that historians might "investigate" World War I: as an almost hopelessly complex historical tragedy about wh...

Taking a picture of an exoplanet--a planet in a solar system beyond our sun--is no easy task. The light of a planet's parent star far outshines the light from the planet itself, making the planet difficult to see. While ...

A Brown University study provides new evidence that the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa may have plate tectonics similar to those on Earth....

When a very massive star dies, its core contracts. In a supernova explosion, the star's outer layers are expelled, leaving behind an ultra-compact neutron star....

Today - Circadian Rhythms: A 52S crewmember removed and stowed the Double Sensors and Thermolab Unit equipment that was used to complete a 36-hour Circadian Rhythms session that began on Wednesday....

EXCLUSIVE SpaceNews interview with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy Stephen Kitay SpaceNews.com

The President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Mr Rumen Radev, was welcomed on a visit to ESA's Headquarters in Paris on 4 December by the Agency's Director General, Jan Wörner.

"Vestiges Exist of a Universe Prior to the Big Bang" --Physicists See a Starkly Different Beginning to the Cosmos "Supermassive Ghosts'--Astronomers Looking for a Star in Andromeda Galaxy Stumble Upon Orbiting Pair of Gi...

When a very massive star dies, its core contracts. In a supernova explosion, the star's outer layers are expelled, leaving behind an ultra-compact neutron star. For the first time, the LIGO and Virgo Observatories have b...

In the hunt for extra-terrestrial life, scientists tend to take what is known as the "low-hanging fruit approach." This consists of looking for conditions similar to what we experience here on Earth, which include at oxy...

Three times further away from the sun than the Earth lies an enormous lump of metal. Around 252km in diameter, the metallic "M-class" asteroid 16 Psyche is the target of NASA's next mission to the belt of giant rocks tha...

People have been dreaming about space travel for hundreds of years, long before the arrival of the spectacular technologies behind space exploration today - mighty engines roaring fire and thunder, shiny metal shapes gli...

This picturesque view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the distant universe to reveal a galaxy cluster called Abell 2537.

An Australian scientist has created the most detailed map ever of clouds of high-velocity gas in the universe around us.

Whether you're traveling across cities, continents or even oceans this holiday season, there is no long-haul flight quite like that of the Voyagers.

The path of a light beam will be bent by the presence of mass, an effect explained by General Relativity, and a massive body can therefore act like a lens - a so called "gravitational lens" - to distort the image of an o...

New collection of ESA merchandise featuring the Solar System now in the ESAshop, plus some seasonal surprises!

The Juno spacecraft captured this image when the spacecraft was only 11,747 miles (18,906 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter's clouds--that's roughly as far as the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia. T...