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Young Max has dreams of working as a reporter someday. What better practice than to quiz Gen. Charles Bolden about the future of space exploration?

Supersonic aircraft are loud. Engine noise and transonic 'booms' made high speed airliners unwelcome visitors. Langley Research Center engineers are hosting focus groups to determine public annoyance and the space agency...

A faraway star's mysterous and dramatic dimming was most likely caused by comet fragments, a new study suggests -- though it doesn't rule out the much-ballyhooed possibility of an "alien megastructure" in the system.

Missing Link Between Turbulence in Collapsing Star and Hypernova, Gamma-ray Burst...

NASA has selected Hanks, Hanks and Associates, LLC of Washington to provide professional administrative support services at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and its Michoud Assembly Facili...

In the wake of NASA's supremely successful inaugural test flight of the Orion deep space capsule on the EFT-1 mission in Dec. 2014, NASA is beefing up the critical thermal protection system (TPS) that will protect astron...

Astronomers investigating supermassive black holes found proof that as they consume their cosmic neighbors, they also emit winds that blast matter into space the host galaxy could use to create more stars.

Two college robotics programs just got the gift of a lifetime: actual NASA prototypes of humanoid robots.

In the last few episodes, we've been talking about the standard model of physics, explaining what everything is made up of. But the reality is that we probably don't know a fraction of how everything is put together. Thi...

A new image pairs intricate illustrations with delightfully simple language to explain the "Red World Space Car" (Curiosity Mars rover) and its mission.

The sun is supposed to be entering a quiet period, but it's still showing signs of its 11-year peak of activity it reached in early 2014.

Sharonov crater is an impact crater of size 100 km located in Lunae Palus Quadrangle of Mars....

Engineers installed the first of 18 beryllium-coated mirror segments that will make up the James Webb Space Telescope's 6.5-meter primary mirror. SpaceNews.com

ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Roscosmos commander Yuri Malenchenko arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today ahead of their launch to the International Space Station. Set for launch o...

Three co-founders of suborbital vehicle developer XCOR Aerospace who recently left the company have established a new company, one that was inspired by some of the development challenges they faced at XCOR. SpaceNews.com

This Nov. 21 launch of LaoSat-1 highlights three trends changing the global satellite telecommunications market, including regulators' willingness to relax the rules for poor nations. SpaceNews.com

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[Update 1 Dec: The launch of LISA Pathfinder has been postponed] On Wednesday, a Vega rocket will boost LISA Pathfinder into space to pave the way to a future mission for detecting gravitational waves. Once aloft, ESA's...

A University of Alberta researcher has successfully generated 3D simulations of deep jet streams and storms on Jupiter and Saturn, helping to satiate our eternal quest for knowledge of planetary dynamics. The results fac...

One of the fun things about being a writer is having lots of friends who write, too. An even funner thing* is that, as a writer, I can help promote their stuff. Since it's Cyber Monday--a day promoting online shopping fo...

Discover more about the importance of sea ice as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world

A supercomputer simulation of a mere 10 milliseconds in the collapse of a massive star into a neutron star proves that these catastrophic events, often called hypernovae, can generate the enormous magnetic fields needed ...