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Scientists found no signs of laser pulses coming from KIC 8462852, a star whose mysterious brightness dips have spawned talk of possible "megastructures" built by intelligent aliens.

Boeing unveiled its new single-aisle aircraft 737 MAX 8 to its employees. Aptly named the 'Spirit of Renton,' the 737 MAX 8 has 20 percent reduced fuel usage and the lowest operating expenses to date.

(Phys.org)--A team of researchers, encouraged by the latest discovery of ESA's Rosetta spacecraft of molecular oxygen (O2) on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, are going over comet 1P/Halley (known as Halley's Comet) ...

Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a tiny star with a giant, cloudy storm, using data from NASA's Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes....

We exclude [this object] to be a sub-/stellar member of the α Centauri system, but argue that it is either an extreme TNO, a Super-Earth or a very cool brown dwarf in the outer realm of the solar system....

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House lawmakers scolded NOAA's top satellite official here during a Dec. 10 hearing about a lack of transparency in the civilian agency's major geostationary weather satellite program, which recently fell six months behi...

NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union Dec. 14-18 in San Francisco. NASA-related briefings will be carried liv...

The surface of the Jupiter-sized L-dwarf star, W1906+40, is blemished by a storm raging near its north pole. At 3500° F, the star is relatively cool compared to most stars; cold enough to have coherent clouds.

"The Martian" earned nods for Best Director (Ridley Scott), Best Actor (Damon) and Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced today (Dec. 10).

Two controversial new studies suggest the discovery of large objects at the outer reaches of the solar system --

When our galaxy was born, around 13,000 million years ago, a plethora of clusters containing millions of stars emerged. But over time, they have been disappearing. However, hidden behind younger stars that were formed la...

SpaceX says it's close to launching rockets again six months after an accident.

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Multimillionaire innovator and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has announced the next launch for his SpaceX reusable rocket, which will test updates that will help the rocket successfully land after its Dec. 19 mission.

The Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting the protoplanet* Ceres in the main asteroid belt since March 2015, sending tremendous amounts of data back to astronomers on Earth. Ceres is an odd beast, the biggest object in the m...

The new series is set 200 years into the future, where humanity has colonized the Solar System. It follows a detective and spaceship officer as they try to prevent a catastrophe from occurring. Premieres on SyFy on Dec. ...

Astrophotographer A. Garrett Evans took this image in June 26, 2015 from Lower Falls in the Yellowstone Grand Canyon.

The satellites, to be launched in groups of four aboard Europeanized Russian Soyuz rockets in late 2017 and early 2018, will bring the O3b constellation to 20 spacecraft. SpaceNews.com