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Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and sometimes they abruptly increase their rotation rate. This sudden change of spin rate is called a "glitch" and I was part of a team that recorded one happening in the Vela P...

The FY-19 NDAA language calls for a new organization, likely to be named U.S. Space Command, within U.S. Strategic Command, following the same model as U.S. Cyber Command. SpaceNews.com

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

Using the ALMA array, international team of scientists recently observed 14 galaxies in the early Universe that are about to merge to form a galaxy cluster - one of the largest structures in the known Universe The post A...

The mass distribution of young stars may not be the same everywhere in our Galaxy, contrary to what is currently assumed. If this turns out to be the case, the scientific community will be forced to re-examine its calcul...

You don't get to swim in the sun's atmosphere unless you can prove you belong there. And the Parker Solar Probe's Faraday cup, a key sensor aboard the $1.5 billion NASA mission launching this summer, earned its stripes l...

A pair of new spacecraft that will observe our planet's ever-changing water cycle, ice sheets, and crust is in final preparations for a California launch no earlier than Saturday, May 19.

Far across the solar system, from where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA's Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. During that time, the hearty spacecraft--slightly larger than a full-grown gi...

NASA is about one year out from calling an abort.

China is developing a Long March launch vehicle with a reusable first stage that could have its trial launch as early as 2020, according to a senior Chinese rocket designer SpaceNews.com

If humans want to avoid going extinct like the dinosaurs, we will ultimately have to learn to live in space and to colonize other worlds. But would living on another planet truly preserve our species, or would it drive u...

The Israeli government has told Spacecom it intends to operate a satellite at the same location as most of Spacecom's fleet, the Israeli satellite operator said April 30. SpaceNews.com

Last week the much-awaited second slew of data from ESA's Gaia mission was released, providing information on a phenomenal 1.7 billion stars - the richest star catalogue to date.

Many Earth observation satellites make use of an added ingredient to ensure reliable, good quality environmental data: the moon.

Jeff Bezos, who made his fortune as the founder of Amazon also began a space company focused on bringing humans into suborbit.

An international team led by researchers at CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has challenged currently held ideas about star formation. Published in N...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

If all goes to plan, humans will be settling Mars by 2032. And there's a good chance someone on the crew will be from Australia.

Technology evangelists dream about a future where we're all liberated from the more mundane aspects of our jobs by artificial intelligence. Other futurists go further, imagining AI will enable us to become superhuman, en...

Croatian industry players hope a cooperation agreement with the European Space Agency could pave the way for a closer cooperation with their European counterparts and generate foreign orders. SpaceNews.com

An international group of astronomers reports the detection of a new dwarf galaxy in the so-called Magellanic Bridge - a stream of gas linking the two Magellanic Clouds. The newly found galaxy, designated Hydrus 1, is de...

Biology or Geology? --"Scientists Soon to Find Out Why Methane, a Possible Signature of life, is Being Released on Mars" "Some 4 Billion Years Ago Earth was Infected By Life Milky Way May Harbor Several Supermassive Blac...