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As the White House and Congress debate whether to establish a "Space Force" within the Defense Department, some believe a more effective approach is to develop an organization analogous to the Coast Guard. SpaceNews.com

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Nearly all asteroids are so far away and so small that the astronomical community only knows them as moving points of light....

NASA has selected a science mission planned for launch in 2024 that will sample, analyze, and map particles streaming to Earth from the edges of interstellar space.

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Three Expedition 55 crew members are returning to Earth Sunday, but first the Commander will hand over control of the International Space Station in a ceremony Friday afternoon....

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SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy launch with a commercial satellite is scheduled to occur around the end of the year, according to customer Arabsat. SpaceNews.com

Images from NASA’s New Horizons probe reveal mysterious mounds made of frozen methane or nitrogen --

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The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite takes us over the Italian Alps and down to the low plains that surround the city of Milan....

Does dark matter have an electric charge? No one's really wondered before, but researchers are exploring the possibility that some dark matter particles have a small electrical charge.

In the quest to understand dark matter, scientists have now determined that the effective size of dark matter particles -- how strong their interactions with regular matter are -- must be smaller than we thought.

"If global warming gets really nasty, everything from energy harvesting to food production is going to get severely stressed and our large human population won't be sustainable. That's why our exo-civilization models lin...

"When we first saw the New Horizons images, we thought instantly that these were dunes but it was really surprising because we know there is not much of an atmosphere," said Jani Radebaugh, Associate Professor in the Dep...

It's one small step for Thailand, one giant leap for Southeast Asia's smelliest fruit.

An international team of researchers has identified 'fingerprints' of multiple metals in one of the least dense exoplanets ever found. The team, from the University of Cambridge and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canar...

See a jet stream speeding through Jupiter's atmosphere in this new view taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. The jet stream, called Jet N2, was captured along the dynamic northern temperate belts of the gas giant planet. It ...

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, is heading to Christchurch, New Zealand, to study celestial objects best viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. Observations will include targets that are too...

We're happy to share with you an update from our partner Unistellar. The team has recently collected a pair of images of the glorious Sombrero Galaxy (M104 in the Messier Catalog) taken during one of their most recent ob...

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Our week through the lens: 28 May - 1 June 2018