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Image: Last night, ESA's Planetary Defence team observed the rare moment in which an object escaped our planet's gravity, in contrast to their normal objects of study - potentially hazardous rocks that could strike it. A...

The ESA's Solar Orbiter launched earlier today on its five-year mission to study the Sun, which scientists hope will lead to a better understanding of solar weather. The post The ESA’s Solar Orbiter, a Mission That Wil...

The joint mission from the ESA and NASA will allow humans to get a closer look at the star at the center of our solar system.

(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) A team of scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that while all regions of the country can expect an earlier start to the growing season as temperatures rise, the trend ...

"I'm very glad for the Dror-1 initiation, and I'm sure it will be followed by Dror-2 and others," Levy said. "It will give us the right momentum in our space activities." SpaceNews.com

For the first time, astrophysicists have detected a pattern in fast radio bursts, one of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe.

Picture the space around Earth filled with tens of thousands of communications satellites. That scenario is slowly coming into being, and it has astronomers concerned. Now a group of astronomers have written a paper outl...

U.S. research sees deep cuts in the president’s request for 2021. But Congress has resisted similar reductions in the past --

L3Harris' new digital payload will be introduced in the 11th satellite of the GPS 3 constellation. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX recently announced that it could be taking Starlink public, giving investors a chance to get a piece of this lucrative satellite internet company. The post SpaceX is Thinking of Spinning Off Starlink and Taking it...

The three-member Expedition 62 crew is getting ready for a resupply mission scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 13, at 4:06 p.m. EST due to an unfavorable weather forecas...

As NASA prepares to launch American astronauts this year on American rockets from American soil to the International Space Station - with an eye toward the Moon and Mars - the agency is announcing it will accept applicat...

The Dipper is more than just a bright and familiar star pattern. It's a compass, a clock, a calendar and a ruler all rolled into one!

A United States satellite that's used to spy on other countries is being trailed by two Russian satellites, according to the commander of the U.S. Space Force.

Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes, and now astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have observed an asteroid so heavily cratered that they are dubbing it the "golf ball asteroid."

Image: At this very moment, a spacecraft is headed toward the brightly burning Sun, photographed here on an Antarctic summer day by ESA sponsored medical doctor Stijn Thoolen at Concordia research station. Solar Orbiter ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A space industry flush with startups and easy money struggles to tamp down all the B.S. SpaceNews.com

Here's a look at what's next for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter as it begins its long trek to the sun.

A planet-hunting probe has taken its first photos, and they're better than expected!

The White House's proposed 2021 federal budget helps keep the ball rolling on one of planetary science's highest priorities, Mars sample-return, and funds development of a potential mission that would map water ice on th...

From high-speed data transfer via satellites, to the innovative technologies and scientific discoveries delivering real benefits on Earth, space is increasingly a crosscutting component in 21st Century society. But do we...