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U.K. military official: "Here we have a sector in which we excel, which is daily growing more central to everyone's lives, but is vulnerable to attack." SpaceNews.com

Our star dominates the environment in our Solar System, sending colossal amounts of energetic material in every direction, causing ever-changing 'space weather'. Find out more in ESA's hot new infographic...

(Cardiff University) Galaxy evolution can be chaotic and messy, but it seems that streams of cold gas spraying out from the region around supermassive black holes may act to calm the storm.

Julian Knight, head of the MoD's networks delivery team, said Skynet 6 is at a "crossroads." SpaceNews.com

Stratolaunch has performed the first test-firing of a key component of a rocket engine it is developing as the company presses ahead despite the death of its founder and principal funder. SpaceNews.com

The Italian Ministry of Defense may use two satellites to replace a single existing satellite so that it can use the Italian-led Vega C or Vega E rocket, according to a defense official. SpaceNews.com

Russia's space agency says that one of the International Space Station's computers has malfunctioned, but the glitch doesn't pose any risks to the crew.

The powerhouse that will help NASA's Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on Exploration Mission-1 arri...

NASA officials welcomed more than 400 participants with a stake in the future of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) to Seattle last week for a two-day gathering in which the agency presented its plans to host a series of Grand Cha...

An observational technique first proposed more than four decades ago to measure the physical parameters of the corona that determine the formation of the solar wind--the source of disturbances in Earth's upper atmosphere...

Even on the International Space Station, American astronauts manage to vote --

The odd interstellar object that zoomed through the inner solar system last October might be an alien reconnaissance spacecraft, a new study suggests.

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Optical phenomenon seen by ESA's Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station

Humanity could advertise its presence to potential intelligent aliens in our cosmic neighborhood via a powerful laser beacon, a new study suggests.

Col. Laurent Jannin, the head of French satcom programs at the French arms-procurement agency, DGA, said Nov. 6 that connectivity demands from drones and military aircraft drove the need for an additional satellite that ...

Being under a starry sky has fascinated me since I was a child, especially when I tried to "reach for the stars," setting my feet on the floor, just extending my arm while thinking about how there is nothing separating u...

A billion light-years from Earth lies one of the universe's most massive structures, a giant elliptical galaxy surrounded by a sprawling cluster of other galaxies known as Abell 2597. At the core of the central galaxy, a...

The first known interstellar visitor to the solar system, 'Oumuamua, highlights how life could also spread between the stars, and perhaps even across the galaxy, two new studies find.

It's not every day you meet a bona fide genius -- much less become one. But that's exactly what happened to Sarah Stewart, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Davis, when she became one of the MacArthu...

When it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists have a tendency to be a bit geocentric - i.e. they look for planets that resemble our own. This is understandable, seeing as how Earth is the only planet...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): A billion light-years from Earth lies one of the universe's most massive structures, a giant elliptical galaxyElliptical GalaxyA galaxy that is round or elliptical in outline,...