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Efforts to detect gravitational waves--which were first predicted by Albert Einstein nearly 100 years ago--are advancing with international researchers including UWA researchers boosting the sensitivity of wave detectors...

NASA and Microsoft are teaming up to develop Sidekick, a new project using commercial technology to empower astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

A University of Colorado Boulder space center will fly high-tech hardware on the commercial SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launching to the International Space Station Sunday, the 50th space mission flown by BioServe Space Tec...

Over the past week, ESA's Integral satellite has been observing an exceptional outburst of high-energy light produced by a black hole that is devouring material from its stellar companion.

Start-up satellite Internet provider OneWeb LLC, in a move that could quiet its doubters, has announced that it raised $500 million in equity from sources as varied as Indian telecommunications network provider Bharti En...

SpaceX stands ready to launch a much-needed load of supplies to the International Space Station this weekend on the heels of a failed supply run by Russia.

The day will officially be a bit longer than usual on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, because an extra second, or "leap" second, will be added.

OneWeb announced $500 million in equity coming from Indian and Mexican telecommunications providers, ground segment builders, the satellite prime contractor and even from an ostensible competitor in satellite fleet opera...

The chairman the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee wants the U.S. Air Force and launch industry to focus narrowly on replacing the Russian-made main engine on United Launch Alliance's workhorse Atlas 5 r...

A NASA suborbital sounding rocket filled with student experiments flew more than 71 miles (114 kilometers) high yesterday (June 25).

NASA's plan to simplify the Mars 2020 rover's mission by letting the Curiosity-clone dig up and drop surface samples instead of babysitting them until a fetch rover arrives is starting to win hearts and minds within the ...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week we welcome Paul Sutter, the CCAPP Visiting Fellow who works on the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure. Guests: Jolene Creighton (@jolene723 / fromqua...

An active sunspot has been blasting coronal mass ejections in our direction, creating fantastic northern lights displays much further south than usual. In this case, Mike Taylor (miketaylorphoto.com) captured a multi-col...

Astronomers may have discovered an exoplanet that has found the elixir to planetary youth -- streams of radiation from its white dwarf star, which could have knocked billions of years off its apparent age.

The Expedition 44 trio aboard the International Space Station participated in a variety of medical science today. The crew is also preparing for the arrival of SpaceX CRS-7 scheduled for Tuesday morning....

The field of mini-worlds, rubble and dust around star Beta Pictoris, 63.4 light years away, was one of the first such structure to be discovered.

Barren wastelands are not as barren as they first appear.

Whether Internet goes better with Coke is anyone's guess, but Coke is going with OneWeb. The giant soft drink maker is an equity investor in OneWeb LLC and one of the surprises of the June 25 OneWeb brefing on London The...

This image captured by Sentinel-1A's radar on 1 April 2015 shows a central region of California in the US. The San Andreas Fault - the border between two tectonic plates - is visible as a somewhat straight line running f...

The U.S. Defense Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence are planning a second space traffic management center to serve as a backup to the existing facility in light of what government officials sa...

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