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We've achieved amazing things by using chemical rockets to place satellites in orbit, land people on the moon, and place rovers on the surface of Mars. We've even used ion drives to reach destinations further afield in o...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Final preparations are underway for SpaceX's first launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral during 2016 with the commercial SES-9 television and communications satellite on W...

"It's a very unusual, unexpected configuration," says astrophysicist Dr. Julio Navarro, at the University of Victoria, an expert in evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters and the structure and evolution of their dark ...

An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes identified the distant location of a fast radio burst (FRB) for the first time. This discovery has allowed them to confirm the curre...

Three years after its explosion, a type Ia supernova continues to shine brighter than expected, new research finds. The observations, made with the Hubble Space Telescope and published today in The Astrophysical Journal,...

NASA and the Republic of Korea are developing plans for a cooperative field study of air quality in May and June to advance the ability to monitor air pollution accurately from space....

NASA and the Republic of Korea are developing plans for a cooperative field study of air quality in May and June to advance the ability to monitor air pollution accurately from space.

What can the climates of other planets tell us about the Earth's weather? According to a researcher at the University of Houston, data being collected from Jupiter, Saturn and Saturn's largest moon, Titan, can offer clue...

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NASA Television will provide complete coverage Tuesday, March 1, as three crew members depart the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space age...

An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes has for the first time managed to identify the location of a fast radio burst, allowing them to confirm the current cosmological mod...

“Fast radio bursts” detected here on Earth last only a thousandth of a second, but are the result of a faraway source briefly shining a billion or more times brighter than our sun   --

The hunt for "Planet Nine" somewhere beyond the orbit of Pluto may be expedited by new work that narrows down the region where this hidden planet could be lurking.

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The Pentagon's acquisition chief said Feb. 23 that a preliminary opinion from the Treasury Department means the use of Russian rocket engines on United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket does not violate U.S sanctions. Spa...

After its historic flyby of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to rendezvous with a tiny, icy Kuiper Belt object.

NASA has awarded five additional space station cargo-supply missions to SpaceX in a late-December contract with an undisclosed value that industry officials estimate at around $700 million. SpaceNews.com

The hunt for meteorites that fell to Earth in Florida on Jan. 24, 2016.

Promising new calibration tools, called laser frequency combs, could allow astronomers to take a major step in discovering and characterizing earthlike planets around other stars. These devices generate evenly spaced lin...

New telescopes and techniques are helping scientists probe exoplanets in their earliest stages of development.

Meteorite hunters in Florida have found six space rocks associated with a rare daytime fireball that streaked through the Sunshine State's skies on Jan. 24.