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The CIA has released a 355-page document which officially acknowledges that Area 51 in Nevada does exist, and the agency comes clean about their weather balloon cover stories. The document covers the U-2 and SR-71 spypla...

A plan to send fully automated robots to survey, fix and refuel satellites could prove revolutionary to space science.

Curious coincidences occur in the sky just as they do on Earth. Take tonight for instance. The moon is in gibbous phase or about 3/4 full - 78% to be exact - while Venus, which also undergoes phases identical to the moon...

If you go out hiking this weekend and somehow find yourself hopelessly lost in the wilderness, but suddenly remember you have a compass with you, you can use it to find north because the needle always points towards the ...

Another kind of commercial spacecraft is almost ready to take flight, its backers say. Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser recently finished four low- and high-speed ground tests at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in...

The Universe is sizzling with undiscovered phenomena. Only last month astronomers heard four unexpected bumps in the night. These Fast Radio Bursts released torrents of energy, each occurred only once, and lasted a few t...

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK,VA - When American astronauts again venture into deep space sometime in the next decade, their return trip to Mother Earth will end with the splashdown of their Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean - ...

Nearly 18.7 billion kilometers from Earth -- about 17 light-hours away -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is just about on the verge of entering interstellar space, a wild and unexplored territory of high-energy cosmic parti...

Personally, I've never seen anything like this, and photographer and digital artist Michael K. Chung said he couldn't believe what he saw when he was processing images he took for a timelapse of the Perseid meteor shower...