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Europe has four more Galileo navigation satellites in the sky following their launch on an Ariane 5 rocket. After today's success, only one more launch remains before the Galileo constellation is complete and delivering ...

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX now is targeting no earlier than 10:36 a.m. EST Friday, Dec. 15, for its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.

Astronomers at ANU have created the most comprehensive map of the southern sky that can be viewed online by anyone around the world.

The Expedition 53 crew is getting ready to split up Thursday morning before another crew begins its mission next week....

A new study from Purdue University indicates that Earth's atmosphere will break up small meteoroids, which is good news for planetary protection The post Meteors Explode from the Inside When They Reach the Atmosphere app...

Randy Bresnik‏@AstroKomrade Approaching the Himalayas, truly a needle in a haystack trying to find Mt. Everest/Sagarmatha. Amazingly enough, we did. #4DaysOverEverest...

The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the nomination of Barry Myers to be the next administrator of NOAA to the full Senate despite concerns by the committee's Democrats about potential conflicts of interest. SpaceNews....

"I've been doing this for 12 years and I have never seen anything like this," says a CAL FIRE crew member as he fights the Blue Cut fire in Los Angeles. "This is crazy fire behavior. Unbelievable." Netflix's docu-series ...

A 60-year-old mystery regarding the source of some energetic and potentially damaging particles in Earth's radiation belts is now solved using data from a shoebox-sized satellite built and operated by University of Color...

How long might a rocky, Mars-like planet be habitable if it were orbiting a red dwarf star? It's a complex question but one that NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission can help answer.

Are huge balls of charged gas launched from the sun steering these marine animals off course?

The search for life beyond Earth is riding a surge of creativity and innovation. Following a gold rush of exoplanet discovery over the past two decades, it is time to tackle the next step: determining which of the known ...

Immense northern storms on Saturn can disturb atmospheric patterns at the planet's equator, finds the international Cassini mission in a study led by Dr Leigh Fletcher from the University of Leicester.

There will be a market for humanity's expansion beyond Earth orbit, industry experts said -- but none of them can predict what form that market will take.

(The Archer), next door to the larger Lagoon Nebula. It contains many astronomical wonders, including the highly active star formation site of NGC 6559, the nebula at the centre of the image....

"The MAVEN mission tells us that Mars lost substantial amounts of its atmosphere over time, changing the planet's habitability," said David Brain, a MAVEN co-investigator and a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric...

On Dec. 11, 2017, President Donald Trump signed the Space Policy Directive 1, ordering NASA to return astronauts to the moon ahead of crewed missions to Mars and beyond. See the moment in photos here.

The Ursid meteor shower will peak in the early morning on Dec. 22, 2017, but it won't be a very spectacular shooting-star show.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy are collaborating on the next generation of nuclear generators, with a focus on crewed missions to Mars.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: How long might a rocky, Mars-like planet be habitable if it were orbiting a red dwarf star? It's a complex question but one that NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evo...

December 13, 2017: Today's links to headline stories from around the world on the threats, opportunities, and dangers facing our fragile planet --along with an occasional dash of humor, popular culture, and an intriguing...

Blue Origin's 'Mannequin Skywalker' has rocketed almost all the way to space, just in time for the new Star Wars movie.