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We all recognise Jupiter by its banded pattern of counter-rotating zones and belts - this can be seen even with small garden telescopes. These stunning structures are powered by fast jet streams that are visible in the p...

Several members of the House Science Committee used a hearing on NASA's latest budget proposal March 7 to criticize the Senate for not acting on the nomination of one of their colleagues to lead the agency. SpaceNews.com

Air Force acquisitions chief William Roper said software acquisition "continues to lead to overruns." SpaceNews.com

The three orbiting Expedition 55 crew members focused on maintenance of the International Space Station while studying Earth and biomedical sciences today. Meanwhile, a new set of station crewmates are in Kazakhstan for ...

A new study from scientists with France's CNRS explains how comets like 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquire and retain their multi-lobed shapes. The post Rosetta’s 67P Is The Result Of A Collision Of Two Comets appeared ...

Measurements of the three-dimensional structure of the earth, as opposed to the one-dimensional models typically used, can help scientists more accurately determine which areas of the United States are most vulnerable to...

Galaxies are not static islands of stars -- they are dynamic and ever-changing, constantly on the move through the darkness of the Universe....

In a surprise shift, Eutelsat Communications, a staunch defender of geostationary satellites as the way forward, on March 8 said it is buying a low Earth orbit (LEO) demonstration nanosatellite. SpaceNews.com

Measurements of the three-dimensional structure of the earth, as opposed to the one-dimensional models typically used, can help scientists more accurately determine which areas of the United States are most vulnerable to...

Scientists have conducted the first lab experiments on haze formation in simulated exoplanet atmospheres, an important step for understanding upcoming observations of planets outside the solar system with the James Webb ...

When astronomers discovered the first exoplanet around a normal star 2 decades ago, there was joy--and bewilderment. The planet, 51 Pegasi b, was half as massive as Jupiter, but its 4-day orbit was impossibly close to th...

The Space Team at TU Wien is launching an ambitious project together with the University of Würzburg. Measurement devices are going to be ejected from a rocket and will fall to Earth without a parachute.

Air Force Space Command leaders are working to bridge the cultural divide between the air and space professions to create a more cohesive force of space combatants.

NASA is not planning to develop a second mobile launch platform that could shorten the gap between the first two Space Launch System missions as it makes few changes in general to its exploration programs despite a renew...

On 6 March 2018, the BepiColombo engineering model was delivered to ESA's mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

Astronomer Emily Levesque discusses the strangest stellar phenomena known to science --

Hubble Space Telescope News:

The biggest and oldest planet in the solar system has no tilt as it moves, so its poles have never been visible from Earth. But in the past two years, with NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have gotten a good look...  ...

It's a question I've gotten lots, now that the calendar has flipped over from February to March. The satellite: When will we get our first good look at the Humanity Star reflector satellite? The post Catch Sight of Human...

Light elements clumped together to form the gas giants.

Operations image of the week: An engineering replica of BepiColombo will help to troubleshoot software before being uploaded to the real spacecraft at Mercury

A team of scientists from the University of Arizona have engineered an instant replay switch for evolution. The technique, known as ancestral gene resurrection, inserts ancient genes into modern E. coli bacteria.