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This composite image shows a coronal mass ejection — a huge eruption of solar plasma — as seen from two space-based solar observatories and one ground-based instrument. The image in gold is from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft; the image in red is from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory; and the image in blue […]

Hydrogen-spewing volcanoes could boost the temperatures of seemingly frigid alien planets enough to maintain liquid water on their surfaces, making the worlds potentially habitable to life as we know it, a new study suggests. If the newfound TRAPPIST-1h — the most distant of a set of seven Earth-size worlds that orbit a dwarf star just 39 […]

An image from NOAA/NASA satellite, GOES-16, shows a composite color full-disk visible image of Earth on Jan. 15, 2017. The Trump administration’s budget proposal includes a drastic 17-percent cut to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the government’s top weather and climate-science agencies, according to a report by The Washington Post . […]

In the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is used to lower a protective covering around the Cygnus pressurized cargo module on Feb. 21. The private spaceflight company Orbital ATK  is targeting March 19 for its seventh cargo flight, dubbed OA-7, to the International Space Station. […]

The collision of two black holes holes — a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO — is seen in this still from a computer simulation. A prototype space-based gravitational wave detector performed far better than expected during its trial run, raising prospects that a […]

An asteroid less than 10 feet (3 meters) across buzzed Earth last week , diving in closer than many communications and weather satellites. The asteroid, called 2017 EA, passed closest to Earth on Thursday, March 2, at 9:04 a.m. EST (1404 GMT) above the eastern Pacific Ocean. It reached within 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) of Earth, […]

Disney XD has renewed “Star Wars: Rebels” for a fourth season, according to Deadline . Star Wars: Rebels  follows Kanan, the “last padawan” of the Jedi on adventures that take place between “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” and “Star Wars: A New Hope.”  “The team behind Star Wars Rebels delivers epic storytelling that has captivated […]

This is going to be a good year for anyone who loves both Legos and “Star Wars” — Lego is adding more than 30 “Star Wars”-themed sets to its lineup this year. Space.com got a first look at the new sets at Toy Fair 2017, and — spoiler alert — they are awesome!  The new […]

The Intelsat 603 satellite during a 1992 shuttle repair mission. That satellite is based on a bus similar to one that an unnamed government agency, perhaps the NRO, is offering to NASA. WASHINGTON — NASA is soliciting concepts for payloads that could fly on a mysterious satellite  it is in discussions to inherit from another government […]

By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor | March 4, 2017 12:16pm ET Credit: NRO Meet the Manned Orbiting Laboratory At the peak of the space race – when the Soviet Union was considered a threat, and the Beatles were a hot new band invading American music – the United States had a partially classified human space […]

NASA launched two sounding rockets almost simultaneously from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska at 12:41 a.m. EST (0541 GMT) on March 2. The rockets carried instruments to study the northern lights as part of the Neutral Jets in Auroral Arcs mission. NASA launched three rockets into the aurora borealis Thursday (March 2) to […]