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A year after the Australian government announced plans to establish a national space agency, that office is now in operation with plans to help support the country's emerging space industry. SpaceNews.com

A Japanese-Australian team is developing a new way to remove space junk from orbit and sending it harmlessly towards Earth. The post A New Solution to the Space Junk Problem. Spacecraft with Plasma Beams to Force Space J...

NASA's partners in the International Space Station are showing a growing interest in extending the station's operations beyond 2024 regardless of NASA initiatives to end direct funding of the station around that time. Sp...

NASA recently deployed a technology demonstrator called the RainCube, a miniature satellite that could revolutionize how we monitor weather The post NASA Tests a Tiny Satellite to Track Extreme Weather and Storms appeare...

October will be a busy month as a pair of crews get ready to swap places on the International Space Station followed by a pair of spacewalks. Also, Japan's HTV-7 resupply ship is open for business and the Expedition 56.....

A new model is bringing scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light signals produced when two supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, spiral toward a collis...

Drifting far past Pluto, the orbit of the dwarf planet 2015 TG387 appears to have been sculpted by the gravity of something far larger lurking in the solar system’s outer limits --

A new map of dark matter all over the universe could reveal things scientists don't know about dark energy.

Just two weeks after two tiny hoppers made a picture-perfect landing on the surface of an asteroid called Ryugu, that space rock is about to get another robotic visitor -- and we're about to get another bunch of incredib...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: ESA-sponsored medical doctor Carmen Possnig at Concordia research station in Antarctica

Square Kilometer Array: Bremen, Germany - October 2, 2018 - Breakthrough Listen, the global initiative to seek signs of intelligent life in the universe - announced today at the International Astronautical Congress the c...

United Launch Alliance and satellite operator Viasat are defending the "competed" status of a launch contract that other launch companies say they had no part in. SpaceNews.com

Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) scientists, together with astrophysicists from all over the world, are observing as the Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner approaches the Earth. The favorable weather conditions in September...

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have appointed a board to investigate an instrument anomaly aboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 17 weather satellite cur...

Scientists have discovered another marker on the trail toward the putative Planet Nine -- an extremely distant dwarf planet called 2015 TG387, and nicknamed 'The Goblin.'

Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and his colleagues--Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii's David Tholen--are once again redefining our Solar System's edge. They discovered a new extremely d...

A tiny German asteroid lander is expected to touch down on its target late Tuesday, Oct. 2 (EDT). The craft is on a quest to send back pictures about the mysterious Ryugu's surface.

A team of Leiden astronomers used the latest set of data from ESA's Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way, but were surprised to find stars instead sprinting inwards - perhaps fro...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its first Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-1) today putting it on course for its scheduled arrival at the asteroid Bennu in December. The spacecraft's main engine thrusters fired in a...

Russian investigators looking into the origin of a hole that caused an oxygen leak on the International Space Station have said it was caused deliberately, the space agency chief said.

NASA's Kepler team has received data showing that the spacecraft's ability to point precisely has degraded. In order to preserve high-value science data collected during its latest observation campaign, the Kepler team h...

NASA's New Horizons team has passed its "final exam" ahead of the probe's Jan. 1 flyby of the distant object dubbed Ultima Thule.