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A pioneering Finnish nanosatellite has now reached space equipped with the world's smallest infrared hyperspectral camera. The photos with infrared data taken from the satellite provide new solutions for monitoring and m...

A team of researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center has found some evidence that adds credence to the theory that the basic ingredients for life came to Earth from asteroids. In their paper published in the journal Natu...

According to new research based on data obtained by the Cassini probe, Saturn's rings could be gone within 100 million years. The post Saturn is Losing its Rings, Fast. They Could be Gone Within 100 Million Years appeare...

The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark 2 rocket lifted off on schedule at 5:40 a.m. Eastern and deployed the GSAT-7A satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit 19 minutes later. SpaceNews.com

Today, the threat has never been higher of a new round of above-the-atmosphere ("exo-atmospheric") nuclear explosions. SpaceNews.com

In the last working week of the year, there is no slowing down in the Defense Department's space reorganization. The White House has given the Pentagon the order to stand up a U.S. Space Command as a separate combatant c...

The search for life has led astronomers to the icy moons in our Solar System. Among those moons, Europa has attracted a lot of attention. Europa is Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon--and the sixth-largest in the Solar Syst...

Jamming and astrophysics go hand-in-hand for Queen lead guitarist Brian May, who announced Wednesday he is releasing a musical tribute to a far-flung NASA spacecraft that is about to make history.

NCCR PlanetS: Researchers at the Universities of Zurich and Cambridge have discovered a new, exotic class of planets outside our solar system. These so-called super-Earths were formed at high temperatures close to their ...

The Expedition 57 commander handed over control of the International Space Station today in a traditional ceremony. He and two of his crewmates will then head back to Earth Wednesday just in time for the holidays....

Two back-to-back launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin will have to wait a bit longer for liftoff after technical issues forced both companies to call off launch attempts scheduled for today (Dec. 19).

On Monday this week, BepiColombo began its very first routine electric propulsion firing.

A team of astronomers from Chile has detected nine new variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 6652 and its background stream. Six of the newly found stars were classified as eclipsing binaries, one as an SX Phoenicis...

A new model of the moon's rotational dynamics--the first that takes into account the moon's solid inner core--helps explain why it appears to wobble on its axis.

An adolescent star in the midst of a dramatic growth phase has been observed with the help of two NASA space telescopes. The youngster belongs to a class of stars that gain mass when matter swirling around the star falls...

Technology image of the week: ESA's Concurrent Design Facility, the cradle of future space missions, is celebrating its 20th birthday

Robots invaded the Sahara Desert for Europe's largest rover field test, taking place in a Mars-like part of Morocco. For two weeks three rovers and more than 40 engineers performed testing of automated navigation systems...

President Trump on Tuesday directed the Department of Defense to establish a U.S. Space Command as a unified combatant command.

Apollo 8 was supposed to be a test flight, meant to simulate atmospheric re-entry from the moon but never meant to go there. Hurtling toward Earth at 2,407.5 miles per hour is hairy business and NASA, having never done s...

Using the infrared satellite AKARI, a Japanese research team has detected the existence of water in the form of hydrated minerals in a number of asteroids for the first time. This discovery will contribute to the underst...

There is no escaping the holidays, even in space.

What happens at the center of a black hole? Not a singularity, as Einstein's theories predict.