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3D-printed metal parts produced through a Europe-wide collaboration of high-performance industrial sectors have undergone extensive testing for space use - tested to destruction in many cases - by ESA's specialist advanc...

More companies and investors are moving to capitalize on the potential of small satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar, creating what looks likely to become a highly competitive market. SpaceNews.com

Europe launched a rocket from French Guyana on Wednesday, to put a satellite into orbit which will track global winds, allowing for improved weather forecasting, Arianespace said.

A team of American scientists have found the first definitive evidence of water on the Moon, which makes plans for a lunar base that much more feasible! The post Dust off Your Lunar Colony Plans. There’s Definitely Ice...

The Trump administration objected to funding cuts that would delay RSGS launch, calling it an "innovative public-private partnership to demonstrate on-orbit repair, refueling and other servicing capabilities." SpaceNews....

Mission planners have chosen the first landing sites on boulder-strewn body for Hayabusa 2 and its rovers to touch down --

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A Russian cargo ship is packed and ready for departure tonight from the International Space Station after a six-month stay....

NASA is preparing to launch a cutting-edge, laser-armed satellite that will spend three years studying Earth's changing ice sheets.

United States Vice President Mike Pence has confirmed overnight plans to create a "Space Force" as the sixth branch of the U.S. military.

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is thought to be leftover radiation from the Big Bang, or the time when the universe began.

A collision may have spun Saturn's fourth moon around 180 degrees.

52 years ago today, on 23 August 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. While a remarkable image at the time, the full resolution of the image was never retrieved from the...

In the coming decades, many space agencies hope to conduct crewed missions to the moon and even establish outposts there. In fact, between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), Roscosmos, and the Indian and Chinese spac...

Where does wind come from? Why is it important and why do we need to measure it? And, how is Aeolus going to make these measurements from space?

If you only account for the matter we can see, our entire galaxy shouldn't exist. The combined gravitational pull of every known moon, planet, and star should not have been strong enough to produce a system as dense and ...

Researchers often assume that massive galaxies host supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in their nuclei. In recent years, observers have sought galaxies that might contain an SMBH that is displaced from its equilibrium posi...

Watching the heavens on a nightly, or even casual basis? The web and modern technology has certainly altered the landscape of modern astronomy, (mostly) for the better. Once, we all huddled around cardboard planispheres,...

A multi-institutional team of researchers has discovered silica mineral quartz in a primitive meteorite, comprising direct evidence of silica condensation within the solar protoplanetary disk, and offering new clues to u...

NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station and satellites in orbit around Earth kept watch over the frighteningly large Hurricane Lane as it approached Hawaii.

Buzz Aldrin's story finds itself center-stage in "1969: The Second Man," a new theatrical production that explores the life of the second man on the moon.

Scientists who study the moon are beaming about the new discovery of exposed water ice in lunar polar regions.