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Have you been keeping an eye on Sol lately? One of the top astronomy stories for 2018 may be what's not happening, and how inactive our host star has become. The post Are We Headed Towards Another Deep Solar Minimum? app...

The UN certified Iridium Communications to provide Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) services, ending Inmarsat's monopoly on the internationally required service for ships, Iridium said May 21. SpaceNews.com

A SpaceX rocket Tuesday blasted off a duo of sports car-sized satellites built by the US and Germany to reveal changes in sea level rise, ice melt and drought on Earth.

A joint U.S./German space mission to track the continuous movement of water and other changes in Earth's mass on and beneath the planet's surface successfully launched at 12:47 p.m. PDT Tuesday from the California coast.

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From 2000 to 2017, the U.S. government contracted more than $26 billion in foreign military sales to the Republic of Korea, including advanced combat aircraft and missile defense systems. SpaceNews.com

Startups backed primarily by private venture capital have announced plans to launch dozens of small SAR satellites within a decade to take advantage of the miniaturization of electronics. SpaceNews.com

In January, ICEYE proved it could operate a synthetic aperture radar on a microsatellite. Now the company is preparing to launch a constellation. SpaceNews.com

A squad of seals living off the coast of West Antarctica has provided scientists with data that could help to improve estimates of future sea-level rise. Researchers equipped the rolly-poly marine mammals with sensors th...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot -- the most powerful storm in the solar system -- is an planetary icon. See photos of the giant storm, which has been shrinking over time, in our full gallery here.

Deep in the sun's core, buried under hundreds of thousands of miles of twisting and convecting hydrogen and helium, a nuclear fire rages.

According to recent reports, Amazon executives are in talks to pick up "The Expanse" -- the space drama recently canceled by Syfy channel -- for a fourth season.

Ceres is a dwarf planet, the only one located in the inner reaches of the solar system. It is the largest object in the asteroid belt.

Orbital ATK's Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft lifted off at 4:44 a.m. EDT and is on its way to the International Space Station....

When black holes collide, interactions between their cores might leave an imprint on the resulting gravitational waves --

An Antares rocket launched from Virginia this morning includes the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) that will chill atoms to just about absolute zero--colder than the vacuum of space itself, creating Bose-Einstein condensates ...

After a clutch of historic detections, gravitational-wave researchers have set their sights on some ambitious scientific quarry --

The Square Kilometer Array, which will be the widest radio telescope array when it opens and one of the most precise when it begins operation in 2020, combining 250 dishes. "This next-generation facility will be the firs...

For people like me, light years, the expanding universe and the Big Bang are part of daily language.

Twin satellites that will monitor Earth's water cycle are scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California on Tuesday, May 22, in a unique rideshare arrangement. The two Gravity Recovery and Clima...

Astronauts soon will have new experiments to conduct related to emergency navigation, DNA sequencing and ultra-cold atom research when the research arrives at the International Space Station following the 4:44 a.m. EDT (...

The small inner moons of Saturn look like giant ravioli and spaetzle. Their spectacular shape has been revealed by the Cassini spacecraft. For the first time, researchers of the University of Bern show how these moons we...