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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched rockets, spaceships and electric cars, and after his stint on CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" last night, he can add TV sitcom to his epic list of achievements.

SpaceX, Hawthorne, California, will launch astronauts to the International Space Station in late 2017 under a Commercial Crew order NASA announced Nov. 20. SpaceNews.com

The grizzled asteroid miner is a stock character in science fiction. Now, a couple of recent events -- one legal and the other technological -- have brought asteroid mining a step closer to reality....

Congress' passage of a bill that allows American companies to own and sell any materials they extract from the moon, asteroids or other celestial bodies should help spur the development of off-Earth mining, representativ...

NASA took a significant step Friday toward expanding research opportunities aboard the International Space Station with its first mission order from Hawthorne, California based-company SpaceX to launch astronauts from U....

MinutePhysics teamed up with the Web comic xkcd to explain how to go to space, using just the most common 1,000 words in the English language. And it is wonderful.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Director of the new documentary, Sky Line, The Space Elevator Documentary. The film debuted at DOC NYC 2015 [Nov 12-19] - America’s largest documentary...

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The crew of the International Space Station and flight controllers worldwide held a moment of silence for the victims of the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks, and astronaut Scott Kelly shared some remarks in a new video.

As NASA plans to increasingly rely on commercial space companies, those companies are, in turn, looking to build partnerships with other industries to access new markets and technologies. SpaceNews.com

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Sara Seager, who started out as a painfully shy, friendless child and grew up to become a MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner for her pioneering work stu...

The grizzled asteroid miner is a stock character in science fiction. Now, a couple of recent events - one legal and the other technological - have brought asteroid mining a step closer to reality.

Square Kilometer Array: Friday 20 November 2015, SKA Organisation HQ - Returning engineers and participants from the 3rd SKA Engineering Meeting concur in praising a productive and positive set of discussions that have m...

This stunning image of the northwest corner of Australia was snapped by a student on Earth after remotely controlling the Sally Ride EarthKAM aboard the International Space Station....

The service is looking for new data from commercial providers to better map satellite movements and help detect threats to U.S. military satellites.

The collage above shows 22 individual planetary nebulae artistically arranged in approximate order of physical size. The scale bar represents 4 light years. Each nebula's size is calculated from a new distance scale, whi...

Findings from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggests winter in Titan's southern hemisphere will be even colder than predicted --

CEO Mark Rigolle explains why LeoSat is leaving it to the likes of OneWeb to serve individuals in connectivity-starved locales and focusing instead on corporate giants that need to move large quantities of data quickly a...

Friday's briefing begins with Jeff Bezos dropping off an ocean-salvaged F1 rocket engine at Seattle's Museum of Flight and promising New Shepard's next test flight is coming "very soon." SpaceNews.com

An international team of physicists has published ground-breaking research on the decay of subatomic particles called kaons - which could change how scientists understand the formation of the universe. Nicolas Garron, a ...

The six-member Expedition 45 crew continued exploring more life science Thursday....

The International Space Station crew participated in a moment of silence and commander Scott Kelly offered his thoughts and prayers for the victims of the heinous terrorist attack on Nov. 13, 2015.