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Proxima Centauri is a cool red dwarf with about one-eighth of the sun's mass. Although it is the closest star to the sun, located just 4.2 light-years from the solar system in the triple star system of alpha Centauri, it...

Hurricane Dorian continues its march up the Atlantic coastline, grazing North Carolina and Virginia today (Sept. 6) even as NASA's Kennedy Space Center has finished assessing the storm's impacts.

A Japanese cargo spacecraft loaded with more than four tons of supplies, spare parts and experiment hardware is scheduled to launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan to the International Space Station a...

The Chandrayaan-2 mission’s Vikram lander is presumed lost after falling silent in the final moments of its descent --

Members of a NASA safety panel praised the agency for moving ahead quickly with aspects of its Artemis program to return humans to the moon, but warned about perceptions of a leadership vacuum for that effort. SpaceNews....

Earth’s magnetic poles drift over time. This is something that every airplane pilot or navigator knows. They have to account for it when they plan their flights. They drift so much, in fact, that the magnetic poles are...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Skybot F-850 tweeted out a photo of Earth from the space station that was taken by a NASA astronaut almost 10 years ago.

This article was corrected Sept. 6 at 1:36 pm Eastern time. Xen-Hub is not yet in production. SAN FRANCISCO — Xenesis, a Chicago laser communications startup, announced an agreement Sept. 3 with Hartwell Capitol Consul...

While the colors of weird astronomical objects known as quasars might seem elementary, the science behind these colors is rather complicated.

As India's lunar lander prepares for an epic descent today (Sept. 6), the country's space agency released a video showing how it will attempt to make a soft touchdown.

What's hidden in the light?

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday gave a dressing down to space officials on a visit to Russia's long-delayed and corruption-tainted cosmodrome in the Far East.

Shareholders in British satellite operator Avanti voted overwhelmingly to remove the company from the London Stock Exchange, agreeing with management that the company is better off privately held. SpaceNews.com

India is due this weekend to become only the fourth nation after the US, Russia and China to land a spacecraft on the Moon, but there is more at stake than that.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The first Spacebus Neo satellite--Konnect, a high-throughput satellite ordered by Eutelsat--has successfully completed its mechanical test campaign in Thales Alenia Space facilities in Cannes.

As NASA prepares to return to the Moon in the next couple of years and possibly even establish bases, it needs a better understanding of how the human body performs in such an inhospitable habitat.

A key tracer used to estimate how much atmosphere Mars lost can change depending on the time of day and the surface temperature on the Red Planet, according to new observations by NASA-funded scientists. Previous measure...

Our week through the lens: 2 - 6 September 2019

Saturn may be doing a little electromagnetic shimmy and twist which has been throwing off attempts by scientists to determine how long it takes for the planet to rotate on its axis, according to a new study.

Pulsars in binary systems are affected by relativistic effects, causing the spin axes of each pulsar to change their direction with time. A research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck Institute for Radio A...