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GAO: "Implementing a strategy to support multiple launch providers may prove challenging." SpaceNews.com

A Russian rocket has carried into orbit a satellite that is part of the European Space Agency's earth observation program.

Thermo Capital, owner of Globalstar, is merging the satellite operator with a landline company it owns in a $1.65 billion deal intended to help pay off Globalstar's debts. SpaceNews.com

Northrop Grumman executives said April 25 that the company declined to submit a proposal for the next set of GPS 3 satellites, all but guaranteeing that Lockheed Martin will win the competition. SpaceNews.com

Watch the replay of the Sentinel-3B liftoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia

Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The research, by scientists from Brown University, could shed light...

"The fact that this is happening so early in the history of the universe poses a formidable challenge to our present-day understanding of the way structures form in the universe," said Scott Chapman, an astrophysicist at...

Sentinel-3B lifted off on a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST)

Peering deep into space--an astounding 90 percent of the way across the observable universe--astronomers have witnessed the beginnings of a gargantuan cosmic pileup, the impending collision of 14 young, starbursting gala...

NASA will host a media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, April 30, to discuss the upcoming launch of a mission that will provide unique insights into our planet's changing climate and Earth system processes, and have far-re...

After delivering more than 5,800 pounds of science investigations and cargo for NASA, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station on Wednesday, May 2. NASA Television and the agency'...

This is a serious question, and serious scientists are speculating about what traces these potential predecessors might have left behind.

The gassy world is "darker than charcoal" and may swallow up to 99 percent of the light its local star sheds upon it.

A Twitter user managed to turn 25 minutes worth of images from the ESA's comet lander into a dramatic short film.

Thinking that the earth might be flat appears to have grown in popularity in recent years. Indeed, flat earthers are gathering for their annual conference this year in Birmingham, just two miles from my own university.

"No one in the world knows what we'll find," says cosmologist David Hogg of New York University. "The observations collected by Gaia are redefining the foundations of astronomy," adds Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of S...

One year ago, I wrote an article about the remarkable discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, a system of seven temperate terrestrial planets orbiting an ultra-cool red dwarf star. This was an enormous astronomical...

This image of Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent zones was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

The Canadian Space Agency is famous for its astronaut program and robotics technology.

JPL is the space agency's go-to center for the robotic exploration of worlds beyond Earth.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

An international team of astronomers reports the finding of ASASSN-18di--a powerful white-light superflare on a previously undetected, mid-type M-dwarf star. The discovery is detailed in a paper published April 12 on the...