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DARPA plans to award $117.5 million in contracts over three phases to up to eight bus or payload suppliers. SpaceNews.com

We're in the midst of a parade of planets crossing the evening sky. Jupiter reached opposition on May 9th, and sits high to the east at dusk. Mars heads towards a fine opposition on July 27th, nearly as favorable as the ...

Find out how investigations of Comet 67P will help guide future cometary exploration in this ESA Web TV interview from the 49th Rosetta science workshop

The spectacular merger of two neutron stars that generated gravitational waves announced last fall likely did something else: birthed a black hole. This newly spawned black hole would be the lowest mass black hole ever f...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is maneuvering to its lowest-ever orbit for a close-up examination of the inner solar system's only dwarf planet.

In a new study led by the Lowell Observatory, a team of researchers indicate how the next-generation Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) could find the elusive Planet 9 (Planet X) The post What are the Chances that th...

A centuries-old materials bonding process is being tested aboard the International Space Station in an experiment that could pave the way for more materials research of its kind aboard the orbiting laboratory. Sintering ...

NASA has definitized additional requirements under the Joint Polar Satellite System Common Ground System contract with Raytheon, IIS of Aurora, Colorado.

To study the most extreme objects in the Universe, astronomers sometimes have to go to some extreme places themselves....

NASA has selected 10 companies to conduct studies and advance technologies to collect, process and use space-based resources for missions to the Moon and Mars.

An international team of scientists recently created a unified model that shows what happens when stars are consumed by a Supermassive Black Hole. The post This is What Happens When a Black Hole Gobbles up a Star appeare...

Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto, and say they are likely to have been formed of methane ice grains released into its rarefied atmosphere.

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APT Satellite turned off several transponders on its 13-year-old Apstar-6 satellite after a malfunctioning solar array caused a drop in power. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Early Earth's regulatory carbon/seafloor weathering process would occur on any rocky planet with water. "There's nothing special about these processes," says Joshua Krissansen-Totton from the University of Washington's a...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be capable of collecting more light than all of the existing 8-to-10-meter telescopes on the planet, combined.

From 'bub' to Boba.

Over the last million years of evolution, our brain underwent a considerable increase in size and complexity, resulting in the exceptional cognitive abilities of the human species. This brain enlargement is largely due t...

High school students from Georgia's high-flying, egg-toting rocket team will soon represent the U.S. in an international competition.

Though it resembles a peaceful rose swirling in the darkness of the cosmos, NGC 3256 is actually the site of a violent clash. This distorted galaxy is the relic of a collision between two spiral galaxies, estimated to ha...

SpaceX has called off its planned launch of a commercial communications satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday (June 1), citing the need for extra tests on the booster's upper stage.