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Satellite developed by MIT aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized ones.

International Launch Services says Russia's Proton rocket will be better able to compete for constellation launches, along with other missions, thanks to new orbits accessible through an upcoming variant of the rocket. S...

On Monday, April 2 the 14th Commercial Resupply Mission to the International Space Station blasted off Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was carrying a Dragon spacecraft filled with cargo for the astronauts on board the statio...

Two commercial suborbital launches scheduled for late last week, one a test flight of an orbital launch vehicle and the other of a suborbital research vehicle, have been postponed. SpaceNews.com

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This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

"Corporate advocacy and stewardship for Air Force space missions and capabilities." That, in a nutshell, is the job description for Lt. Gen. David D. Thompson, who last Thursday became Air Force Space Command vice comman...

IAU Press Releases:

Secure World Foundation releases new report on global counterspace capabilities. "Space is important to everyone, not the sole domain of militaries and intelligence services." SpaceNews.com

The constellation of Orion is teeming with nebulas in this colorful deep-space image.

In 1982 Sally Ride became the first American woman and the third woman in history to fly to space, but the first female astronaut trainees, which were the 13 unheralded women of "Mercury 13," who underwent extreme physic...

An ambitious mission to a "world made of metal" will help scientists better understand how Earth and other rocky planets evolved, according to a new video from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

On a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, April 16. Prelaunch mission coverage will begin...

"Our traditional conception of space is limited by our brain, and we may have the intelligent signs above and be unable to see them," observe neuropsychologists Gabriel de la Torre and Manuel García, from the University...

The European Space Agency plans to remotely update the software on its Mars Express probe to ensure the aging spacecraft remains stable.

Astrophotographer Damian Peach raised the alarm on Twitter this past week, of a possible bright storm emerging of the planet Saturn. The spot was noticeable even with the naked eye and in the raw video Peach captured, a ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers to suppress the brilliant light of nearby stars in order to obtain a better view of the regions surrounding them. This collection of n...

Every so often, your smartphone or tablet receives new software to improve its functionality and extend its life. Now, ESA's Mars Express is getting a fresh install, delivered across over 150 million km of space.

I grew up on a small island off the West Coast of Canada, with the darkest skies you could hope for. Although I live in a small town now, with some light pollution, I can still see the Milky Way from my backyard.

The Soyuz rocket is a line of Russian boosters that have been used since the mid-1960s for both cargo and astronaut transportation. Today, Soyuz rockets the main form of transportation to the International Space Station.

On March 29, 2018, the Indian Space Research Organisation launched the GSAT-6A communications satellite into orbit atop a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle. See how the mission went in photos here.