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With a busy launch manifest and big backlog, SpaceX is the fastest growing provider of launch services and one the hardest places to land a job. Here are three things you should know if you're bold enough to throw your n...

(Phys.org)--HD 189733b, located some 64 light years away, is the closest "hot Jupiter" exoplanet to Earth. Thanks to its proximity, it is a great target for atmospheric observations. Now, an international team of astrono...

Start preparing now for one of the major astronomical events of 2016: On May 9, Mercury will pass across the face of the sun.

Astronomers have pinpointed where and when the most recent stellar explosions near Earth occurred, showing they could have impacted the development of life on our planet --

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Astronomers have pinpointed where and when the most recent stellar explosions near Earth occurred, showing they could have impacted the development of life on our planet --

A team led by Justin Crepp, the Frank M. Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered a rare brown dwarf, a faint object with properties in between that of a star and planet. In...

NASA has awarded the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract III to Orbital ATK, Inc., in Greenbelt, Maryland, to support the agency's Sounding Rockets Program.

Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe. The observations, made by...

Finding a ninth planet in our Solar System this late in the game would be fascinating. It would also be somewhat of a surprise, considering our observational capabilities. But new evidence, in the form of small perturbat...

The specter of a geomagnetic solar storm with the ferocity to disrupt communications satellites, knock out GPS systems, shut down air travel and quench lights, computers and telephones in millions of homes for days, mont...

Boeing won a $2.5 million contract to provide research, engineering and program management for U.S. Air Force ground telescopes in New Mexico and Hawaii, the Pentagon announced April 5. SpaceNews.com

A near-record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe indicate that these monster objects - this one equal to 17 billion suns - may be more common than once thought, according to Univers...

A near-record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe indicates that these monster objects - this one equal to 17 billion suns - may be more common than once thought, according to Univer...

As the commercial satellite imaging industry grows, it is worth revisiting what principles should guide the approach that government takes to regulate it. SpaceNews.com

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Two new papers appearing in the journal Nature this week are "slam-dunk" evidence that energies from supernovae have buffeted our planet, according to astrophysicist Adrian Melott of the University of Kansas.

An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system, which showered the Earth with radioactive debris.

A near-record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe indicates that these monster objects - this one equal to 17 billion suns - may be more common than once thought, according to Univer...

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When NASA's New Horizons sped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, it took the best-ever pictures of the rocky world s surface, giving us new insight into its geology, composition and atmosphere. These stunning images are the mo...