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Some of the brightest objects in the known universe may abruptly go dark at the whims of the black hole that powers them, new research shows.

Elon Musk announced before that details of the Mars Colonial Transporter would be revealed in 2016. There's a pretty good chance that he'll do so at the 2016 International Astronautical Congress.

Faced with a congressional mandate to add a lander to a planned mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, NASA is considering launching the lander separately from the main mission. SpaceNews.com

Blombos Cave in South Africa has given us vast knowledge about our early ancestors, realigning scientific notions of the origins of early modern behavior, pushing back the dates of evidence of sophisticated cognitive act...

The Star Wars franchise has featured the fictitious "Death Star," which can shoot powerful beams of radiation across space. The Universe, however, produces phenomena that often surpass what science fiction can conjure.

The Moon is the first object in space that fascinates we Earthlings. The Sun might be more prominent, but you can't stare at the Sun without ocular damage. Anyone can gaze at the Moon, with or without binoculars or a tel...

NASA centers across the country are opening their doors Tuesday, Feb. 9 to media and social media for "State of NASA" events, including a speech from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and unique opportunities for a behi...

Weeks after its fourth nuclear test, North Korea announced plans Tuesday to launch an Earth observation satellite on a rocket later this month, in what critics see as a covert test of banned technology for a ballistic mi...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Looking amazingly like a fish flying across the skies high above the Florida space coast, NASA's unique Super Guppy aircraft loaded with the structural backbone for NASA's next Orion crew module, s...

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A newly upgraded camera that incorporates light sensors developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is now one of the best cameras on the planet for studying outer sp...

Students from five elementary schools and five middle schools in Colorado will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut living and working on the International Space Station at 12:35 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb....

Human spaceflight and robotic operations image of the week: the capital of the United Kingdom at midnight on a Saturday seen from 400 km above

I post a lot of news and pictures of Mars, and when I do it's usually something taken by a rover on the surface, or it's a high-resolution image of a small region taken from orbit. I love these images, and they give us a...

Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of ESA captured this photo on Jan. 29, 2016 from the International Space Station, as the robotic arm in Japan's Kibo laboratory successfully deployed two combined satellites from T...

The Star Wars franchise has featured the fictitious "Death Star," which can shoot powerful beams of radiation across space. The universe, however, produces phenomena that often surpass what science fiction can conjure......

A South American experiment seeks to find if potatoes could be grown on Mars as a food source for future astronauts. They also hope the data will help them better understand how this staple may be... --

The first flight of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft in 2018....

Although there may be exo planets billions of years older than Earth, Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov believes that intelligent life may be in it's "very young" stage in the observable Universe. Its 200 billion galax...

The first flight of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft in 2018.

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