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A unique high-speed camera, designed to capture the fleeting effects of gamma rays crashing into the Earth's atmosphere, will soon be on its way from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to Arizona's Mount Hopkins.

In February of 2017, a team of European astronomers announced the discovery of a seven-planet system orbiting the nearby star TRAPPIST-1. Aside from the fact that all seven planets were rocky, there was the added bonus o...

After a successful campaign of ground tests, NASA is considering performing a flight test of a small nuclear reactor, possibly on a lunar lander mission in the mid-2020s. SpaceNews.com

As an independent review of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope continues, the project is dealing with a new problem discovered in recent testing of the spacecraft. SpaceNews.com

China on Thursday launched the Apstar-6C communications satellite, successfully inserting the 5-metric-ton spacecraft into a geostationary-transfer orbit. SpaceNews.com

Moganite within a moon rock found in northwest Africa suggests a treasure trove of ice in the lunar subsurface --

Fleet operator Telesat, originally undecided about a joint-use spectrum plan put forward by Intelsat, Intel and SES, is turning against the plan because of how participants would be compensated. SpaceNews.com

Now that NASA has shown the viability of autonomous X-ray navigation in space, a team led by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory plans to include the technology on a proposed CubeSat mission to the Moon, and NASA e...

In its 60 year history, NASA launched more than 50 spacecraft to study the solar system beyond Earth and its moon. Despite the long record, the space agency's next mission will do something that no previous interplanetar...

The Milky Way is nearly 14 billion years old, and its oldest stars developed in the early stage of the galaxy's formation, making them about six to nine billion years old. They're found in the halo, a roughly spherical c...

When NASA's Juno spacecraft recently flew over the poles of Jupiter, researchers were astonished, as if they had never seen a giant planet before.

A team of researchers led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University has found evidence in a lunar meteorite that water once existed on the moon. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the team d...

NASA's next Mars-bound spacecraft, the InSight lander, is ready to launch -- even if there is a better than likely chance that no one will be able to see it when it leaves the ground.

"Cell-cell communication is one of the most ancient mechanisms that makes us who we are," said Leonid Margolis, a Russian-born virologist at the National Institutes of Health. "Since vesicles resemble viruses, the questi...

For the first time astronomers have spotted helium on a planet beyond the Solar System, after more than a decade of searching, opening new possibilities for probing the atmospheres that enshroud distant worlds, says Jess...

Today, tech talent is being lured away from the space industry. The result is a "graying" aerospace industry -- one that is losing people to retirement faster than it can backfill jobs with fresh talent. SpaceNews.com

Similar to the U.S., Europe's median age for members of its space workforce is between 45 and 55, but that doesn't foretell an impending talent shortage. SpaceNews.com

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ArrayAtacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)One of the most complex astronomical observatories on Earth that is ov...

A new nuclear power system that could enable long-duration crewed missions to the Moon, Mars and destinations beyond recently passed an extensive operating test in the Nevada desert, performing well under a variety of ch...

In some ways, star clusters are like giant families with thousands of stellar siblings. These stars come from the same origins--a common cloud of gas and dust--and are bound to one another by gravity. Astronomers think t...

The climate of early Mars is a subject of debate. While it has been thought that Mars had a warm and wet climate like Earth, other researchers have suggested early Mars might have been largely glaciated. A recent study b...

Scientists, engineers and reporters gathered at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to announce the latest results of the Kilopower nuclear power plant project.