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According to a new study, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is estimated to find over 4000 planets during its first two-year mission The post How Many Planets is TESS Going to Find? appeared first on Universe Tod...

Emirati fleet operator Yahsat on April 26 said it is acquiring a majority stake in fellow Emirati operator Thuraya for an undisclosed amount. SpaceNews.com

NASA will pay more money for less cargo delivered to the International Space Station under a set of follow-on commercial cargo contracts awarded in 2016, according to a report by the agency's inspector general. SpaceNews...

Large constellations of satellites planned for low Earth orbit (LEO) present little threat to Iridium's business despite sharing the same orbit, CEO Matt Desch said April 26. SpaceNews.com

Researchers hope European-Russian Trace Gas Orbiter will end a long-running debate over source of the gas on Mars --

Thanks to the second release of Gaia data, we now know the positions, distances and motions of 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way The post Thanks to a Massive Release from Gaia, we now Know Where 1.7 BILLION Stars are in...

By aiming intense X-ray beams at iron samples, scientists have discovered what may lie at the core of "super-Earths," rocky planets triple the mass of Earth orbiting far-distant stars. The team, led by Johns Hopkins Univ...

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned the first images of the Red Planet from its new orbit.

Seventeen years ago, astronomers witnessed a supernova go off 40 million light-years away in the galaxy called NGC 7424, located in the southern constellation Grus, the Crane. Now, in the fading afterglow of that explosi...

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Are you keeping a eye on Jupiter? The King of the Planets, Jove presents a swirling upper atmosphere full of action, a worthy object of telescopic study as it heads towards another fine opposition on May 9th, 2018. Now, ...

China successfully completed its twelfth orbital launch of 2018 late on Wednesday, sending five small Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites into orbit. SpaceNews.com

Watch the video capturing a little of what it took to prepare this latest Copernicus satellite for liftoff from the Plesetsk launch site in Russia

You can now decorate your desk or wall with the prominent surface features of the moon and Mars thanks to NASA orbiter data and a Smithsonian license.

A group of students and researchers at Delft University of Technology are designing a starship capable of keeping generations of crew alive as they cross the gulf between stars - and they've turned to ESA for the starshi...

Scientists have for the first time set eyes on a three-dimensional Neanderthal brain in the form of a virtual model made to fit the empty, fossilized skulls of long-dead individuals, a study said Thursday. The reconstruc...

Where are the aliens? That is the question that the Fermi Paradox seeks to answer. Given our solar system's relatively young age, the theory says that aliens should have visited us already.

A taste of what's to come from ExoMars - first image of the Red Planet from the spacecraft's new orbit

The Navstar constellation of satellites provides the signals for a global positioning system.

"You just need the right combination of ingredients," said physicist Michael Huels. "These molecules can combine, they can chemically react, under the right conditions, to form larger molecules which then give rise to th...

Fragments of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) spacecraft, a NASA mission to observe the time variation of astronomical X-ray sources, are expected to fall to Earth on or about May 1. The mission was terminated and ...