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For the first time, team of ESA scientists recently developed and tested an air-breathing electric thruster, which could open the way for an entirely new class of satellite The post Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Could ...

A Soyuz rocket from Arianespace successfully delivered four telecommunications satellites into medium Earth orbit for fleet operator SES. SpaceNews.com

Each of Jupiter's poles is a beautiful, geometric arrangement of Earth-sized cyclones. In the north, 8 storms surround one central storm, while on the south, 5 storms surround one in the center. The post Gaze in Wonder a...

According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is likely to be delayed again, and exceed its cost cap. The post James Webb Telescope is Probably Going to...

The Hubble has detected a massive dust cloud 150 billion miles across around the young star HR 4796A. The post Hubble Sees a Huge Dust Cloud Around a Newly Forming Star appeared first on Universe Today.

Water is crucial for life, but how do you make water? Cooking up some H2O takes more than mixing hydrogen and oxygen. It requires the special conditions found deep within frigid molecular clouds, where dust shields again...

The more solar observatories, the merrier: Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks associated with coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from the Sun--an effort made possible only by combining data fr...

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference in Atlanta will speak with NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, currently living and working aboard the International Space Station, at 10:40 a.m. EDT Friday, March 16.

French astronomer Charles Messier's list of the best and brightest showpieces in the night sky is popular with skywatchers of all experience levels.

To visit a truly strange land full of wonder and mystery, all you have to do is crack open your microscope case and look down, down, down.

"A Wrinkle in Time," which opens in theaters today (March 9), is the perfect film to show kids applications of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

At the end of a meeting at the White House on Thursday, President Donald Trump, flanked by members of his Cabinet, gestured to the table in front of them. "Before me are some rocket ships," the president said. "You haven...

Two recent expeditions that took scientists 26 000 km across the Atlantic Ocean have returned critical information to make sure that the Copernicus Sentinel satellites are delivering accurate data about the state of our ...

European and Canadian orbiters can work together to catch wayward emissions --

A merger between galaxies can trigger can intense radiation from bursts star formation and from the accretion of gas onto the two supermassive black holes at their centers. Astronomers have observed a strong statistical ...

"If we were to find life on Europa, then that would strongly support the submarine alkaline vent theory," which suggests that life on Earth originated near underwater alkaline hydrothermal vents, says Michael Russell at ...

The mission passed a major review yesterday, meaning that the three BepiColombo spacecraft, along with ground equipment and mission experts, are confirmed to start the move from ESA's centre in the Netherlands to Europe'...

Satellite connectivity provider Global Eagle Entertainment on March 8 announced $150 million in fresh capital from a private investment firm and the appointment of its second chief executive in 13 months. SpaceNews.com

Our week through the lens: 5-9 March 2018

Last December, the planet-hunting mission viewed our planet from 94 million miles away --

Alien life could potentially exist on the undersides of the icy shells of Jupiter's moon Europa and other frozen worlds thanks to the intersection of chemical energy rising up from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor a...

NASA's InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another planet for the first time.