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Over 3500 extra-solar planets have been confirmed to date. Most of them were discovered using the transit method, and astronomers can combine the transit light curves with velocity wobble observations to determine the pl...

Low-Earth-orbit satellite fleet operator Globalstar is meeting with telecom regulators around the world in an effort to globally authorize some of its satellite spectrum for mobile broadband services. SpaceNews.com

The survival tricks adopted by microbes known as hypolithic cyanobacteria, which are found underneath quartz rocks in Earth's deserts, could point to how microbial life on Mars may live, say researchers.

Students from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth,) will speak with NASA astronaut and alumnus Scott Tingle, who is living and working aboard the International Space Station, at 12:30 p.m. EST Tues...

Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg said his company has refrained from running headlong with other fleet operators in adding new telecom satellites over areas now burdened by an oversupply of capacity. SpaceNews.com

In preparation for its maiden flight, StratoLaunch's Roc aircraft - the largest aircraft in the world - recently conducted its second successful taxi test The post The Biggest Airplane Taxis Down the Runway, By 2020 it C...

The human body is made up more than a hundred million, million cells. These building blocks of life exist in a state of constant change, with new cells replacing old cells in a steady, continual process. But when that pr...

Launching in April on a two-year primary mission, the observatory could ultimately discover 20,000 planets--some of which could be much like our own. Ultimately, TESS could contribute as many as 20,000 new planets to the...

Supermassive black holes, which lurk at the heart of most galaxies, are often described as "beasts" or "monsters". But despite this, they are pretty much invisible. To show that they are there at all, astronomers typical...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

New planets found in distant corners of the galaxy. Climate models that may improve our understanding of sea level rise. The emergence of new antimalarial drugs. These scientific advances and discoveries have been in the...

President Donald J. Trump's proposed 2018/2019 NASA budget represents a slight overall increase in funding while aiming to close out a handful of programs and projects. While the uptick is welcome, program cuts can still...

AI is starting to be widely recognized as a potential catalyst for a new military revolution that could transform current paradigms of military power. Unsurprisingly, major powers including the United States and China ar...

What was there before there was anything? Stephen Hawking might know the answer.

A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of Tokyo, released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly obtained imaging dat...

Saturn drifts behind Mars' tiny, battered moons Phobos and Deimos in spectacular imagery captured by the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter.

According to new research, global sea level isn't rising steadily -- it's getting faster every year.

A stunning video from space shows a winter storm - also known as a "bomb cyclone" - slamming into the northeast United States today (March 2). Flooding and sheets of snow and rain accompanied the storm, along with strong...

A new virtual-reality experience promises to have you zooming around the cosmos, looking at where planets, moons and stars actually are in the solar system and its nearby neighborhood.

A NASA spacecraft that will probe the deep Martian interior has arrived at its launch site, about two months ahead of its planned liftoff.

Two ESA business incubators have been ranked fourth and seventh in the world classification of university-affiliated incubators evaluated in 53 countries.

A new version of a space exploration roadmap that firmly puts the moon on the path to Mars will be one topic of discussion at a meeting of dozens of space agencies this weekend in Tokyo. SpaceNews.com