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A new study has cast doubt on whether or not the TRAPPIST-1 system could be habitable, indicating that it has too much water to support life The post TRAPPIST-1 Planets Might Actually Have Too Much Water to be Habitable ...

The European Space Agency is revising its e.Deorbit program to look for synergies between the mission and satellite servicing vehicles. SpaceNews.com

Congress expects to receive from Hyten in June a "warfighting concept of operations" for space. One of the topics will be how to prepare the military for space operations. SpaceNews.com

Faceboook's missing-in-action CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, helped make Brian Acton a billionaire, but that hasn't stopped him from turning against Facebook. The co-founder of Whatsapp has taken to Twitter to urge everyone to de...

Common table salt might prove effective in reflecting sunlight and mitigating rising temperatures leading to climate change. How does this happen?...

Three crew members, including NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:44 p.m. EDT Wednesday (11:4...

Media are invited to view NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 28, at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The spacecraft will embark this summer on a dari...

The ARIEL mission will peer into the atmospheres of thousands of exoplanets to learn more about their formation and evolution --

With a digital brain in place, scientists can test out current theories of cognition or explore the parameters that lead to a malfunctioning mind. As philosopher Dr. Nick Bostrom at the University of Oxford argues, simul...

A Soyuz rocket stands at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ready to blast off Wednesday with three Expedition 55-56 crew members to the International Space Station. In the following two weeks the ex...

Some distant objects in our solar system bear the gravitational imprint of a small star's close flyby 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests.

Marking the International Day of Forests, this Sentinel-2 image shows an area of Bolivia that was once covered by trees but is now dominated by agriculture

Media are invited to preview the final deployment of one of NASA's most ambitious airborne studies of Earth's atmosphere on Friday, April 13, at Building 703 of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, located in Palmdal...

About 70,000 years ago, at a time when modern humans were beginning to leave Africa and the Neanderthals still thrived, a small, reddish star approached our solar system entering the Oort Cloud and gravitationally distur...

Google's latest homepage Doodle celebrates Guillermo Haro, a Mexican astronomer who in 1959 became the first Mexican elected to the Royal Astronomical Society.

How does SyFy's new SUPERMAN prequel drama shake out? Find out with this review.

The next TV project based on work from "A Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin will take place in space.

Ideally, no parts of a reentering satellite would survive their fiery return through the atmosphere, so testing is being used to understand how satellites break apart as they fall.

"The Standard Model is very rigid," says Marco Nardecchia, a theorist from Italy, "so the best way to break it is by precisely testing its predictions." Physicists are pretty sure that something new is out there. Proving...

Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter and one of the four so-called Galilean moons.

"If we can demonstrate it now, we would be recreating a process that was important in the first 100 seconds of the universe and that is also seen in gamma ray bursts, which are the biggest explosions in the universe... �...

President Trump's riff on creating a military space force captured the public's imagination, spawning memes and jokes about starship ninjas gearing up to fight the nation's wars in space. SpaceNews.com