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Our eyes can’t see them, but Martian auroras are there, and more commonplace than we once thought. The Martian auroras were first discovered in 2016 by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. Now some new results are expanding our ...

On 17 December 2019 at 05:54 local time (09:54 CET [08:45 UTC/GMT]), the European Space Agency (ESA) CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope is scheduled to lift off from Europe's spaceport in Kourou...

NASA's Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) program has selected four informal education organizations to promote STEM learning and help inspire the next generation of explorers.

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For the eighth consecutive year, NASA has been selected by the Partnership for Public Service as the Best Place to Work in Government. The rankings, announced Tuesday, reflect NASA's unified focus and dedication to sendi...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

During summer in Mars' southern hemisphere, proton auroras occur nearly every day.

The FCC on Dec. 10 approved HawkEye 360's request for a 15-satellite constellation, six days after the company told the FCC its plans for an 80-satellite constellation were on hold due to interference concerns. SpaceNews...

As 2019 draws to a close, China shows no sign of slowing down its recent feverish pace of launching rockets successfully.

The International Space Station has continuously been home to astronauts for more than nineteen years. Astronauts conduct scientific research using dozens of special facilities aboard the space station, which also provid...

Boeing will make history this week when it sends its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station for the first time, and you can keep up with the weeklong mission live online.

On 17 December 2019 the names of 112 sets of exoplanets and host stars named in the IAU100 NameExoWorlds campaigns were announced at a press conference in Paris (France). Within the framework of the International Astrono...

As the holiday season approaches, people in the northern hemisphere will gather indoors to stay warm. In keeping with the season, astronomers have studied two groups of galaxies that are rushing together and producing th...

This galaxy pair has already collided at least once. Red clumps show where a past collision has encouraged new stars to form.

Europe will power the NASA spacecraft that take astronauts to a new international outpost and forward to the Moon, following decisions made by ESA Member States at Space19+ in Seville, Spain.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Image: Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite revealed that an explosion in a natural gas well in Ohio in February 2018 released more than 50 000 tons of methane into the atmosphere. The blowout leaked more of th...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the Sun's atmosphere, a prominence--a large loop of material launched ...

Astronomers now have a new pair of eyes to detect meteors over Hawai i using a state-of-the-art monitoring system installed on the rooftops of existing buildings on Maunakea and Haleakalā. The high-speed video devices a...

Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But what makes this image ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Walker's resignation is effective January 10, 2020. SpaceNews.com