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The Aerodrome is working on Eldorado Droneport in Boulder City, touting it as the 'world's first commercial droneport and teaching facility.' The 50-acre droneport offers various development services and provides drone-r...

(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dako...

A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has led a team to solve a long-standing mystery -- why some of these worlds seem to have less water than expected. Th...

From a dusty atmosphere stretching across the Atlantic Ocean to daily views of clouds at sunrise, a new NASA camera keeping a steady eye on the sunlit side of Earth is yielding new insights about our changing planet.

Recent orbital and rover missions to Mars have turned up ample evidence of clays and other hydrated minerals formed when rocks are altered by the presence of water. Most of that alteration is thought to have happened dur...

China's Central Bank has released bills and coins that celebrate the country's spaceflight history. The design of the new 10-yuan coin and 100-yuan banknote depicts crewed and robotic spacecraft that span four and a half...

Force fields are real, Earth has one, and here's how it works.

The space-funding company Uwingu is running a promotion that allows customers to create holiday versions of the certificates they receive when they purchase a name for a Mars crater.

New images from the EPIC camera capture the entire face of the Earth in one snapshot, and provide amazing information about changes on the planet.

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Forty three years after he took the last step off the lunar surface, Gene Cernan now has a launch date in movie theaters. The Apollo 17 commander recounts his story in his own words in "The Last Man on the Moon," set to ...

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From a dusty atmosphere stretching across the Atlantic Ocean to daily views of clouds at sunrise, a new NASA camera keeping a steady eye on the sunlit side of Earth is yielding new insights about our changing planet....

Need more office space? How about outer space?

Astronaut Timothy Peake, set to become the first Briton to travel to the International Space Station, said on the eve of his departure that he would look down on Earth at Christmas time and think of his family--hopefully...

Photographers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic create lovely time-lapse animations (I've written about them a few times in the past). Their latest, "Dishdance," shows radio telescope dishes from various observatori...

The hard truth is that if ULA is to remain competitive in the U.S. government launch market, it will need more Russian engines than currently available. SpaceNews.com

The new space-based adventure series "The Expanse" debuts on Syfy tonight, and it's packed with high-flying action, interplanetary politics and intriguing locations.

Are real lightsabers possible?

A team of international experts analysed observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, to create a detailed study of the atmospheres of 10 hot-Jupiter exoplanets - the larges...

Monday's first briefing begins with the UK releasing a National Space Policy on the eve of Tim Peake's historic (for Britain, anyway) launch to the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

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