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Hurricane Florence, the vast storm meteorologists and astronauts alike have been tracking, made landfall this morning (Sept. 14) near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

In science fairs all over the world, students dream big and work hard, hoping to impress with their creative hypotheses.

The universe is a big place. The Hubble Space Telescope's views burrow deep into space and time, but cover an area a fraction the angular size of the full Moon....

The first GPS 3F satellite is expected to be available for launch in 2026. SpaceNews.com

NASA Fellowship Activity has awarded fellowships through NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) and Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) to 12 graduate students totaling $1.9 million...

As satellite manufacturers grapple with what increasingly looks like a permanent decline in the number of commercial geostationary communications satellites purchased worldwide, one offered hope that a partial rebound wi...

Emirati satellite fleet operator Yahsat and Echostar's Hughes Network Systems are seeking regulatory approval for a joint venture to offer ka-band broadband service in Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia. SpaceNew...

Satellite communications providers are forming partnerships, making acquisitions and developing new business models in anticipation of new satellite constellations and surging demand for data links. SpaceNews.com

At the recent Bengaluru Space Expo in India, the ISRO unveiled the spacesuit that it's astronauts will wear during the countries first crewed mission to space. The post India Shows off the Spacesuit its Astronauts Will b...

Three hundred and ten miles above our planet's surface, near-Earth space is abuzz with action. Here begin the Van Allen Belts, a pair of concentric rings of fast-moving particles and intense radiation that extends more t...

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Students in Georgia and Washington, D.C., will talk live with two NASA astronauts on the International Space Station next week as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station.

A new Hubble image of Saturn and six of its Moons reminds us how visually stunning Saturn is. The post Until We Get Another Mission at Saturn, We’re Going to Have to Make Do with these Pictures Taken by Hubble appeared...

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"The First," a bold new science-fiction drama on Hulu starring Sean Penn, is much more science than fiction, according to Charles Elachi, the former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked as a science c...

For more than 20 years, changes in ozone over Antarctica have been carefully monitored by a succession of European satellites. This important long-term record is now being added to by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, ...

A new study suggests Proxima Centauri could sustain liquid water on its surface --

For some time, scientists have known that Mars was once a much warmer and wetter environment than it is today. However, between 4.2 and 3.7 billion years ago, its atmosphere was slowly stripped away, which turned the sur...

A look back on preparations for the 22 August liftoff of ESA's Aeolus wind satellite

While last year's discovery of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars was earth-shaking, it won't add extra dimensions to our understanding of the universe--not literal ones, at least.

An international group of astronomers, including physicists at the University of St Andrews, has revived a previously debunked theory of gravity, arguing that motions within dwarf galaxies would be slower if close to a m...

Twenty years ago, CubeSats--a class of boxy satellites small enough to fit in a backpack--were used by universities as a teaching aid. Simpler, smaller and cheaper than traditional satellites, they've made space more acc...