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What do astronauts, microbes, and plants all have in common? Each relies on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) - essentially a computer code for living things - to grow and thrive.

Disruption or innovation - which term most accurately describes the government and military markets for commercial SATCOM? That's the question posed by a thought-provoking article published last week by research firm Nor...

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....

Protecting satellites and signals from jamming or hacking is taking on outsized importance in nuclear forces modernization. SpaceNews.com

Robotics controllers and Expedition 55 crew members are getting ready for the departure of the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship next week....

GTOSat--will not only provide key observations of the environmentally forbidding radiation belts that encircle Earth, it will provide initial steps of a new technological vision.

In other mass extinctions, elevated mercury has been closely linked to big-time volcanic episodes. In fact, points out geologist Grzegorz Racki, mercury has become to Earth-based catastrophes what iridium is to extraterr...

ExoMars mission's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) recently sent back its very first image, which shows the ice-covered edge of the Korolev Crater The post ExoMars Has Sent Back its First Images From Mars appeared first on Univer...

The Series Premiere of James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction focused on aliens in science fiction. As a linguist, Paul Frommer, the linguist who created the Na'vi language in James Cameron's Avatar, was interviewed an...

A Type II supernova is a truly amazing astronomical event. As with all supernovae, a Type II consists of a star experiencing core collapse at the end of its life cycle and exploding, causing it to shed its outer layers. ...

A Soviet-era cosmonaut who spent almost a year on board three different space stations, Vladimir Lyakhov died on April 19 at the age of 76. Lyakhov logged a total of 333 days as commander of Soyuz missions to the Salyut ...

Blue Origins' New Glenn rocket is being developed for launches starting around 2020.

The Dawn spacecraft broke several records when it visited Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt.

When NASA's Mars InSight mission launches for the Red Planet no earlier than Saturday (May 5), it won't be traveling alone.

The mission will continue work monitoring ice melt, groundwater storage and deep ocean currents --

What had been a peaceful and productive mission for the six men aboard the Russian space station Mir, including U.S. astronaut Jerry Linenger, nearly became a tragic nightmare during the evening of Feb. 24, 1997. A lithi...

The groundbreaking New Horizons mission blazed past Pluto in 2015, transforming our view of the dwarf planet from just a speck to a complex world with changing geology, ice volcanoes, jagged spikes and more. But it almos...

In "Chasing New Horizons" (Picador, 2018), Alan Stern and David Grinspoon trace the many obstacles faced by NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto -- both before and after launch.

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

Students from universities and community colleges across the nation recently participated in third annual Swarmathon....

"In some ways, InSight is like a scientific time machine that will bring back information about the earliest stages of Mars' formation 4.5 billion years ago," said JPL's Bruce Banerdt, principal investigator. "It will he...

Astronauts from today meet with Miles from Tomorrowland in the next episode of Disney Junior's "Mission Force One."