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Exos Aerospace Finds Cause of Launch Failure, Targets Next Liftoff for 2020
Exos Aerospace has determined what caused a sounding rocket to crash minutes after liftoff on Oct. 26.
Famous birthdays for Dec. 14: Offset, James Comey
Rapper Offset turns 28 and former FBI Director James Comey turns 59, among the famous birthdays for Dec. 14.
New York Giants waive CB Janoris Jenkins after derogatory tweet at fan
Two days after directing an offensive remark at a fan on social media, the New York Giants waived Pro Bowl cornerback Janoris Jenkins.
Celebrating 10 Years of the WISE Spacecraft
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft's launch, the mission team has gathered their top 10 images and graphics related to the two missions related to it.
RIT and IAR observe pulsars for the first time from South America
Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR) have collaborated to make the first pulsar observations from South America.
Geminid meteor shower underway, set to reach climax Friday night
As the year nears its close, many people are already looking ahead to 2020, but stargazers remain focused on 2019 as one of the year's top meteor showers is about...
Sunlight Shines on Mars Moon in Detailed New Photos from Orbiter
A brief spacecraft encounter with the Martian moon Phobos shows off the tiny world's surface in detail.
Laura Fraser, Anjli Mohindra to guest star on 'Doctor Who' Season 12
Laura Fraser and Anjli Mohindra are set to guest star on "Doctor Who" Season 12 which will premiere on BBC One and BBC America on New Year's Day.
'The Expanse' Is Back! Season 4 Launches Today on Amazon Prime
The long and winding road (through space) continues for the crew of the Rocinante.
Watch: NCT U sings in snow in 'Coming Home' video
K-pop stars Taeil, Doyoung, Jaehyun and Haechan released a video for the new song "Coming Home."
Finding a killer electron hot spot in Earth's Van Allen radiation belts
JAXA and NASA satellite observations show where killer electrons are generated in the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth.
Newfound Martian aurora actually the most common; sheds light on Mars' changing climate
A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is actually the most common form of aurora occurring on the Red Planet, according to new results...
Video: OPS-SAT, the flying laboratory
On 17 December, ESA will launch a first-of-its-kind space laboratory, OPS-SAT. The small, low-cost test satellite has been specifically designed for operational experiments in space, and includes the most powerful...
Niecy Nash files for divorce from Jay Tucker
"Claws" and "Reno 911!" star Niecy Nash filed for divorce from Jay Tucker two months after their split.
Sandbox satellite to test operations innovations in space
This coming Tuesday, ESA is launching the most powerful flight computer ever flown in space – inside a satellite smaller than a shoebox. The OPS-SAT nanosatellite will be the world’s...
North Korea 'sending message' from Sohae launch facility, report says
Activity at North Korea's Sohae Satellite Launching Station is rising following what Pyongyang has described as a "very important test" of a rocket engine.
Calling radio amateurs: Help find OPS-SAT!
Calling all radio amateurs! ESA is challenging anyone with amateur radio equipment to catch the first signals from OPS-SAT, ESA's brand new space software laboratory.
X marks the spot: NASA selects site for asteroid sample collection
After a year scoping out asteroid Bennu's boulder-scattered surface, the team leading NASA's first asteroid sample return mission has officially selected a sample collection site.
Image: Hubble views galaxy's dazzling display
NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (the Air Pump). The galaxy can be seen slicing across the frame in this image from...
NASA’s NICER Delivers Best-ever Pulsar Measurements, 1st Surface Map
Portal origin URL: NASA’s NICER Delivers Best-ever Pulsar Measurements, 1st Surface MapPortal origin nid: 456570Published: Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image...
NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery
Portal origin URL: NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone DiscoveryPortal origin nid: 456702Published: Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 13:26Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: When the Juno team maneuvered the spacecraft to...
Watch: Niall Horan recalls flirty encounter with Lizzo
Niall Horan said he blushed while meeting "Truth Hurts" singer Lizzo for the first time in London.
Watch Cheops launch live
Tune in to ESA Web TV from 08:30 GMT (09:30 CET) Tuesday 17 December to watch ESA’s exoplanet mission soar into space on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in...
Finding a killer electron hot spot in Earth's Van Allen radiation belts
A collaboration between researchers in Japan, the U.S., and Russia has found a hot spot in Earth's radiation belt where killer electrons, which can cause serious anomalies in satellites, form....
Researchers estimate the mass of the Milky Way to be 890 billion times that of our sun
An international team of researchers has used sophisticated models to calculate the mass of the Milky Way. They have written a paper describing their efforts and results, and have posted...
NASA’s MAVEN maps winds in the martian upper atmosphere
Researchers have created the first map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of a planet besides Earth, using data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft that were collected during the last...
An upcoming ESA mission is going to remove one piece of space junk from orbit
While working at the NASA Johnson Space Center during the 1970s, astrophysicist Donald Kessler predicted that collisions of space debris would become increasingly common as the density of space debris...
Astronomers discover two new galaxy protoclusters
Using Keck Observatory in Hawaii, astronomers have detected two new protoclusters of galaxies embedded in primordial superclusters. The research paper presenting the discovery and providing basic information about the newfound...