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PowerUp's latest Kickstarter campaign aims to produce an FPV drone that lets users see what it's like to take to the skies while staying firmly on the ground.

On his 249th consecutive day in space, U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly told Congress that what he misses most is his friends and family on Earth and the chance to experience nature.

Orbital ATK on Wednesday counted down to its first space launch since a sudden explosion last year destroyed its Antares rocket and cargo craft bound for the International Space Station.

A 9-year-old aspiring reporter featured on the "Humans of New York" blog recently saw his big dream come true when he interviewed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.

It's truly a sight to behold, watching Scott Kelly sip coffee without any of the beverage managing to escape its container.

ESA is looking for a medical doctor to live for a year in Antarctica at the FrenchItalian Concordia research station. Your job is to run experiments in the Antarctic wilderness that help to prepare for future spaceflight...

Farmers can now call on the latest satellite information using the unique TalkingFields service to get the best from their land while cutting the environmental cost....

The European Space Agency says it's preparing for the launch of a probe that will test technology for a future mission to measure gravitational waves.

ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe....

Matter known as ordinary, which makes up everything we know, corresponds to only 5% of the Universe. Approximately half of this percentage still eluded detection. Numerical simulations made it possible to predict that th...

Eutelsat brushed aside threats facing the satellite telecommunications industry, saying it was bringing down satellite costs and targeting numerous growth markets, especially broadband, whose promise has not waned despit...

The first launch of a private Cygnus cargo spacecraft since an October 2014 rocket explosion aims to deliver a wealth of science equipment and experiments to the International Space Station.

Scientists have detected a burst of radio waves from six billion light years away, one of a handful they've discovered in the past decade -- and this time they have clues about its source.

University of Surrey and European Space Agency launch sleep study to tackle health problems shared by astronauts and the elderly

Using new software, astronomers sifted through 650 hours of Green Bank Telescope data to uncover an elusive Fast Radio Burst (FRB). Occurring in a fraction of a second these extremely bright events are very hard pinpoint...

Matter known as ordinary, which makes up everything we know, corresponds to only 5% of the Universe. Approximately half of this percentage still eluded detection. Numerical simulations made it possible to predict that th...

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic radio waves, have baffled astronomers since they were first reported nearly a decade ago. Though they appear to come from the distant Universe, none of th...

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Astronomers are closing in on the origins of baffling radio flashes from deep space --

Astronomers are closing in on the origins of baffling radio flashes from deep space --

We owe a lot to dark matter - it is the thing keeping galaxies, stars, our solar system, and our bodies intact. Yet no one has been able to observe it, and it has often been regarded as a totally...

Don’t know much about history? How about the future? A new infographic by graphic designer Martin Vargic portrays both past and forthcoming events in our Universe, from the Big Bang to the death of our Sun. The graphic...