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Joined by an all-star cast of scientists that included Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, Frank Drake, Geoff Marcy and Ann Druyan, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced that he was personally funding a series of new initi...

Scientists say the Philae spacecraft that landed on a comet last year may have shifted its position, making it harder to communicate with the probe.

Blasting tiny, waferlike sailing spacecraft with powerful lasers could slash interstellar flight times from thousands of years to mere decades, one researcher says.

A University of Exeter scientist is set to send thousands of microscopic worms on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in an experiment aimed at increasing our understanding of what triggers the body to bui...

Milner, a tech start-up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partnering with scientists around the world to search for life among the stars --

A strut in an upper stage propellant tank that failed at a fraction of its rated strength is the leading explanation for the June 28 loss of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the company's chief executive said July 20. The post ...

Researchers are developing instruments and methods for measuring the ages of rocks encountered during space missions to the Moon or other planets. Many of the techniques used to date rocks on Earth are not practical in s...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion was caused by a failed strut that allowed a helium bottle to burst free inside the rocket's liquid oxygen tank, CEO Elon Musk said Monday.

With a $100 Million donation, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner plans to revolutionize the astronomical quest to find alien life --

NASA released today (July 20) the first image of the sunlit side of Earth taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft from its final science orbit, and the beautiful photo has already made quite an im...

Few space missions are hyped like New Horizons was leading up to its July 14 encounter with Pluto. But when showtime finally arrived, NASA and its grand piano-sized probe delivered, and then some. The post Editorial | Ne...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Planet Earth is situated in what astronomers call the Goldilocks Zone--a sweet spot in a solar system where a planet's surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold. An ideal distance from a home star--in Earth's c...

A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away.

Studies find airplane crews at high altitude are exposed to potentially harmful levels of radiation from cosmic rays.

NASA will host a news teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 23 to announce new discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.

“Sputnik Planum” region is a vast stretch of icy plains whose surface is broken into cell-like polygon blocks by snaking troughs --

The Smithsonian has launched its first-ever crowdfunding campaign to conserve, digitize and return to display the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore on the moon. The institution partnered with Kickstarter to raise $500,0...

A new $100 million, 10-year search for intelligent life in the universe was announced today (July 20) by famed scientist Stephen Hawking and other prominent researchers.

This picture of our home planet truly is EPIC - literally! The full-globe image was acquired with NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (aka EPIC; see what they did there) on board NOAA’s DSCOVR spacecraft, positio...

Personal unmanned aerial drones prevented firefighter helicopters from dropping buckets of water to contain a California wildfire that spread over the weekend.

The U.S. Air Force said July 20 it still has six Defense Meteorological Satellite Program spacecraft in orbit that are susceptible to the kind of explosive battery rupture DMSP-F13 experienced in February, producing a la...