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Young scientists from ITMO University have explained how neutron stars generate intense directed radio emission. They developed a model based on the transitions of particles between gravitational states, i.e. quantum sta...

Tomorrow's launch of Sentinel-3B will complete the Sentinel-3 constellation and represents the culmination of months of training to fly Europe's latest Copernicus satellite.

A measurement of the fine structure constant puts significant limitations on the existence of these dark partners to ordinary light particles.

Satellites orbiting Earth are moving at many kilometres per second - so what happens when their paths cross? Satellite collisions are rare, and their consequences poorly understood, so a new project seeks to simulate the...

Gaia's new star catalogue will be unveiled tomorrow. Watch the media briefing live from ILA at 09:00 GMT/11:00 CEST

Speedcast's revenues more than doubled in 2017 as the satellite network operator began leveraging its acquisitions of U.S. companies Harris CapRock and UltiSat. SpaceNews.com

NGA Director Cardillo: "I want the market to work ... but government shouldn't be their first customer. We should be their second customer." SpaceNews.com

NASA's new administrator said he's "very excited" about leading the space agency as he takes office after an extended confirmation process. SpaceNews.com

Jim Bridenstine officially took office as the 13th administrator of NASA Monday after he was given the oath of office by Vice President Mike Pence at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

Countering WMDs is a major intelligence fusion challenge. Thomas: "Even for an organization that prides itself in agility, which we do, this is some incredibly problem solving." SpaceNews.com

For scientists, parts of the Moon's Tycho crater remain a mystery....

This view of Cuba looks from east to west and reaches the cities of Santiago de Cuba on its west coast and Havana on its east coast. The sun's glint is reflected off the Caribbean Sea on Cuba's southern coast....

Spring arrived in the United States on March 20, but that did not stop a winter storm from dropping snow across the Upper Midwest a month later....

"We estimate that a close approach of one of these wanderers that is able to affect our solar system should occur every 100 billion years or so, or nearly 10 times the age of the universe." In a new study...       

The light-lift Vega rocket is Europe's vehicle of choice for small satellites, but has mainly launched spacecraft weighing hundreds of kilograms. While that's smaller than what Arianespace normally launches on an Ariane ...

An international team of astronomers recently used deep learning to identify patterns in images of galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope The post Facial Recognition Deep Learning Software is Surprisingly Good at I...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Lockheed Martin executives said April 24 they are confident they will win an Air Force competition for the next set of GPS 3 navigation satellites as questions swirl about what other companies, if any, submitted proposal...

What does NASA's future look like? Will the next-generation telescope investigate the first black holes in the distant universe or will it look for life on an Earth-like planet light-years away? As in past decades, the a...

Astronomers are beginning to understand what happens when black holes get the urge to roam the Milky Way.

Bitcoin's early adopters have held fast to the dream of a single world currency that is private, free for all to use, and under the control of the masses. But the seven billion people not yet using Bitcoin might not... �...

An Ariane 5 launch has been cancelled after an unexplained problem with an Indian space agency satellite that was supposed to ride on the mission. SpaceNews.com