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In new NASA research, scientists Europa's global ocean as "fossil" ocean material because the bits of ocean trapped in Europa's ice shell spend many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years being carried to the s...

A sausage-shaped galaxy smashed into our own Milky Way billions of years ago, changing our galaxy's shape forever.

U.S. fleet operator EchoStar on July 6 abandoned a $4.25 billion effort to buy Inmarsat after the British satellite operator rejected EchoStar's second merger offer in less than a month. SpaceNews.com

Airbus will be producing at least two 150-kilogram satellites per day at the Florida facility. Tim Deaver: "We're confident we can get to 10 per week quickly." SpaceNews.com

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik. As a volcanic island famous for its volcanoes, glaciers, lakes, lava and hot springs, Iceland attracts tourists all year round with it...

Next week astronauts aboard the International Space Station will host several downlinks as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station.

Today: Rodent Research-7 (RR-7): Yesterday the crew transferred the mice from the Transporter Units that arrived on the SpaceX-15 Dragon vehicle to the two Habitat units in which they will reside on ISS....

China is claiming progress on a number of reentry and landing technologies for human spaceflight and Mars missions, underlining apparently significant plans for deep space exploration. SpaceNews.com

      

New images from NASA's Juno spacecraft show an unusual "footprint" of Jupiter's moons on their parent planet's aurorae. The data reveal that, rather than casting one "shadow" in Jupiter's aurorae, the moon Io - Jupiter's...

In the coming decades, NASA and other space agencies hope to mount some ambitious missions to other planets in our Solar System. In addition to studying Mars and the outer Solar System in greater detail, NASA intends to ...

"This is a unique star system," said Ryan Lynch of the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, and coauthor on the paper. "We don't know of any others quite like it. That makes it a one-of-a-kind laboratory for putting ...

A team of researchers with members from Italy, the U.S. and Belgium has discovered that two of Jupiter's moons cause "footprints" in the planet's aurorae. In their paper published in the journal Science, the researchers ...

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling probe remains on target for its December rendezvous with a big, potentially dangerous space rock.

On Saturday, June 23, 2018, a team of experts from Botswana, South Africa, Finland and the United States of America recovered a fresh meteorite in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). The meteorite is one of ...

Lisa Pratt, the space agency's new planetary protection officer, could soon oversee major shifts in regulations on public- and private-sector space missions.

Astronomers just captured a first-of-its-kind image of a newborn alien world -- which has been developing in a nursery of dust and gas for more than 5 million years.

Happy Aphelion Day! Earth is farther from the sun today (July 6) than at any other time of the year.

A galaxy that is supposedly devoid of all dark matter might actually be full of it.

Our week through the lens: 2- 6 July 2018

Scientific American speaks with a crew member from a NASA simulation of a long-duration space mission --

Elon Musk is sending engineers from SpaceX and The Boring Co. to aid in the rescue of a youth soccer team in Thailand that's trapped in a cave and running out of time.