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Texas is offering the private space company SpaceX more than $15 million in incentives to build a new launch facility at the southernmost tip of the Lone Star State.

The annual Perseid meteor shower in August is normally a stargazing treat, offering a dazzling display of 'shooting stars.' But this year, the bright moon will interfere. Here's how to see the Perseids.

The first test will take place in November on the launch pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, while the second will be an in-flight trial originating from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Space News...

Europe's fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) is scheduled to arrive at the orbiting lab on Aug. 12. There will be a number of opportunities to see both the space station and the cargo ship streaking across the night...

A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft was successfully hauled from the Pacific Ocean onboard a U.S. Navy ship.

EchoStar said growth of its Hughes U.S. satellite-broadband consumer service slowed in the three months ending June 30 as subscriber additions were undercut by customers quitting the service.

Black holes may have grown incredibly rapidly in the newborn universe, perhaps helping explain why they appear so early in cosmic history. Early black hole may have sucked matter in from all around, rather than just from...

The solar system coalesced from a huge cloud of dust and gas that was isolated from the rest of the Milky Way galaxy for up to 30 million years before the sun's birth, a new study published online today (Aug. 7) in the j...

Researchers are a step closer to understanding the birth of the sun.

How would you like to have one of your astrophotos sent up to the astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station? Since arriving on the ISS back in May, astronaut Reid Wiseman has been posting beautiful ima...

A NASA climate-and-weather satellite captured the rare sight of twin storms Hurricane Iselle and Hurricane Julio from space as the swirling cyclones headed for Hawaii.

NASA Breaking News: The fifth and final docking of a European Space Agency cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station will air live on NASA Television Tuesday, Aug. 12, beginning at 8 a.m. EDT.

Loral said it is continuing to explore a transaction with an unnamed high bidder.

The fifth and final docking of a European Space Agency cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station will air live on NASA Television Tuesday, Aug. 12, beginning at 8 a.m. EDT.

(Phys.org) --Astronomers and students have found a bridge of atomic hydrogen gas 2.6 million light years long between galaxies 500 million light years away. They detected the gas using the William E. Gordon Telescope at ...

Video highlights from the event at ESA's mission control centre during Rosetta's arrival at comet 67P/C-G on 6 August 2014

On Aug. 5, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite captured natural-color images of both Iselle and Hurricane Julio en route to Hawaii...

SpaceX will perform a pair of crucial launch abort tests beginning later this year for the crewed version of Dragon.

On the second anniversary of landing, NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars is preparing to navigate through a series of sandy valleys on its way to Mount Sharp. The base of Mount Sharp sits 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from the ro...

The spacecraft, due in 2020, will have a reverse fuel cell to produce oxygen for fuel—or to breathe --

Comet Siding Spring is about to fly historically close to Mars. The encounter could spark Martian auroras, a meteor shower, and other unpredictable effects. Whatever happens, NASA's fleet of Mars satellites will have a r...

The dazzling light show that's currently happening in the nearby galaxy Messier 106, also known as NGC 4258, is 23.5 million light-years away from Earth, and is one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors, was captured by N...