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Dozens of particles from halfway across the universe have landed in the IceCube experiment at the South Pole. These messengers could help answer some long-standing cosmic conundrums --

The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding a record fine of $1.9 million from drone startup SkyPan International. The FAA alleged that SkyPan operated drones in a careless manner, endangering lives and property.

NASA is unveiling a new opportunity for start-up companies to license patented NASA technology with no up-front payment. The Startup NASA initiative addresses two common problems start-ups face: raising capital and secur...

A strong geomagnetic storm is amplifying the Earth's northern lights tonight (Oct. 7), making auroras potentially visible as far south as Pennsylvania, Oregon and Iowa, space weather experts say.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch the classified NROL-55 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office at 8:49 a.m. EDT (1249 GMT) Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Watc...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered never-before-seen features within the dusty disk surrounding the young, nearby s...

Moving at 35,000 kilometers per hour, the mysterious waves could come from stellar flares or unseen planets --

Moving at 35,000 kilometers per hour, the mysterious waves could come from stellar flares or unseen planets --

Thanks to a lucky conjunction of two satellites, a ground-based array of all-sky cameras, and some spectacular aurora borealis, researchers have uncovered evidence for an unexpected role that electrons have in creating t...

It's officially autumn, and time once again to seek out the two most distant planets of our solar system, Uranus and Neptune.

U.S. lawmakers authorize $40 million next year for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program but restrict access to the funding until senior Defense Department officials can demonstrate that launching the final satell...

If you're delighted by the ever-changing sky, here are some of its brightest inhabitants to watch for this week just before dawn.

An Israeli team participating in the Google Lunar X Prize competition has a contract to launch its spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2017, the first launch contract officially confirmed by the prize's organizers. SpaceN...

The 20-year stretch since the discovery of the first exoplanet--a planet circling a star other than the sun--has seen a wholesale relocation of cool ideas from science fiction over to science fact. By 1999, scientists fo...

GPS missions will comprise the bulk of the launches, but a missile warning satellite and an unidentified payload will also be in the mix. SpaceNews.com

NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to announce the outcome of the Venture Class Launch Service (VCLS) competition. The news conference wi...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered never-before-seen moving features within the dusty disk surrounding the young, n...

Under the $13.7 million sole-source contract, Boeing will help design and engineer next-generation electro-optical observing systems and conduct experiments at two of the U.S. Air Force's space tracking sites. SpaceNews....

Scientists were looking for planets forming in the large disk of dust surrounding a young star when they encountered a surprise: fast-moving, wavelike arches racing across the disk like ripples in water.

Just 32 light-years from us, a star called AU Microscopii violently flares much more strongly than our Sun. The Hubble Space Telescope and Very Large Telescope have now picked up 5 distinct arches in the flattened cloud ...

A NASA official says the orbiter could carry the mechanisms needed to collect and store sealed Martian surface samples for a return trip to Earth. SpaceNews.com