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Biodegradable drone could decompose, leave no evidence of spying mission. Main body of autonomous vehicle is "grown" from fungus material.

Uranus is finally having some summer storms, seven years after the planet reached its closest approach to the sun, leaving scientists wondering why the massive storms are so late.

The new biopic "The Theory of Everything" documents the personal life of cosmologist Stephen Hawking.

NASA Breaking News: NASA's industry partners continue to complete development milestones under agreements with the agency's Commercial Crew Program. The work performed by Blue Origin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corporation an...

It's a major mystery posed by our sister world. Does the atmosphere of Venus possess upper atmospheric phenomena similar to the Earth, such as aurora or nightglow? Now, a recent announcement out of the American Astronomi...

Virgin Galactic head says crash of SpaceShipTwo won't stop company from going ahead with space tourism plans. New vehicle will be ready in a few months, CEO George Whitesides promises.

A map released today by NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with random distribution around the globe....

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The camera that "would forever change our view of Earth" from space more than a half century ago has been sold at auction for $275,000, the auctioneer says.

With the sci-fi movie "Interstellar" -- hitting theaters last week -- with its computer-generated views of one of most enigmatic and fascinating phenomena in the universe, University of Arizona astrophysicists are likely...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Harvard researchers Robert Kirshner, Christopher Stubbs, and Peter Challis have been named co-recipients of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their ...

Arianespace has said for months that its heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket is fully booked into 2017, with a couple of possible spots late in 2016.

There's more news this morning about Philae, the European Space Agency lander that is on the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Recap: It set down on the comet yesterday, but the harpoons didn't deploy. It b...

Europe's Philae lander is expected to drill into the surface of its comet for the first time today (Nov. 14), in spite of the fact that the probe could be running out of battery life,,European Space Agency officials said...

After achieving touchdown on a comet for the first time in history, scientists and engineers are busy analysing this new world and the nature of the landing....

A ride into space, a high-speed re-entry and a safe parachute deployment. That’s what NASA is hoping for when the Orion vehicle soars into space for a planned flight test next month. Eventually, this spacecraft will ca...

ViaSat outlined its strategy for penetrating more deeply into DSL- and cable-served areas once its ViaSat-2 satellite is in orbit, a strategy it has begun to test now in low-demand areas.

Robot lab Philae drilled into its host comet Friday with just hours of battery left, but may lose power before it can transmit results of a much-anticipated attempt to probe below the surface, mission scientists said.

British physicist Matt Taylor brimmed with excitement as the European Space Agency's Philae lander successfully separated from the Rosetta spacecraft, showing off a colorful tattoo on his thigh of both, while proclaiming...

Landing the Philae probe on the surface of a comet 500 million kilometers from Earth after a 10-year voyage that included 30 months of satellite hibernation is a made-in-Europe masterstroke -- all the more striking given...

Three hours after the Chandra X-Ray Telescope detected one of the largest flares ever observed originating from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antartica detected a high-energ...

Our #CometLanding week through the lens: 10-14 November 2014