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Technology image of the week: ESA's exoplanet-characterising Cheops undergoing testing in the Maxwell chamber, which recreates the infinite void of space

Zipping through the sky 250 miles up is a shoebox-sized bundle of detectors and electronics named Dellingr. The namesake of the mythological Norse god of the dawn, Dellingr is among a new breed of spacecraft known as a C...

NASA expects to soon end efforts to contact the Opportunity Mars rover, silent for more than four months after a major dust storm, but will continue to listen for signals from the spacecraft for months to come. SpaceNews...

Uranus reached opposition on Oct. 23, and if you want to observe the frigid planet this week, look toward the full moon.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Oct. 23 that he expects the next International Space Station crew to launch on a Soyuz spacecraft in December as an investigation into an aborted launch earlier this month wraps up...

NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope is nearly back to normal after a failed orienting tool forced engineers to put it in safe mode earlier this month, the US space agency said.

Some see the hand of God, some see the law of large numbers, and some just see cool looking icebergs. Whichever way you lean, these rectangular icebergs grab your attention. NASA scientist Jeremy Harbeck spotted the rect...

The International Space Station is getting ready for Japanese and U.S. cargo ship operations next month. In the meantime, the three residents onboard the orbital lab today configured science hardware and checked out safe...

A new study by a team of Russian scientists demonstrates how gravitational waves could be encoded to send information, in the same way that radio waves are used now. The post It Could be Possible to Transfer Data Through...

Space Force leaders "will likely only work with the other services when forced to by an outside entity like the secretary of defense or Congress." SpaceNews.com

You don't need wheels to explore Mars....

On Sept. 25, 2018, Parker Solar Probe captured a view of Earth as it sped toward the first Venus gravity assist of the mission. Earth is the bright, round object visible in the right side of the image.

Australian government officials say it is too early to speculate about the privatization of NBN Co. despite an unsolicited offer from Telstra to eventually buy the public telecommunications company. SpaceNews.com

Small planetary systems with multiple planets are not fans of heavy metal--think iron, not Iron Maiden--according to a new Yale University study.

The "Dog Star" has been the shiniest star in the sky for a long, long time.

More than 2 million mph (1 million meters per second) -- that's how incredibly fast some stuff in space is moving, according to new research using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

NASA's long-suffering Kepler Space Telescope returned to sleep mode just a few days after its most recent observing campaign began, the agency said in a statement released yesterday (Oct. 23).

FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope, has observed the active star-forming region NGC 2467--sometimes referred to as the Skull and Crossbones Nebula. The image was captured as part of the ESO Cosmic...

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Massive structures of moving air that appear like waves in Jupiter's atmosphere were first detected by NASA's Voyager missions during their flybys of the gas-giant world in 1979....

A NASA legend who led the team that landed humans on the moon was saluted in Houston for his current role preserving the site where the Apollo 11 mission was managed.

Massive structures of moving air that appear like waves in Jupiter's atmosphere were first detected by NASA's Voyager missions during their flybys of the gas-giant world in 1979. The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mis...