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Long before the first confirmed planetary finds in the 1990s, an observer in 1917 caught evidence of planetary debris around a new star, new research into an astronomical glass plate reveals.

On Friday 8 April 2016, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched a mission to deliver a spacecraft called Dragon with its payload of supplies and experiments into a trajectory towards the International Space Station (ISS). Most...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A sweeping space policy bill introduced April 12 seeks to update a wide range of civil, commercial and national security space issues to keep the United States competitive. Rep. James Bridensti...

Nobel physics laureate Arthur McDonald will discuss the surprising characteristics of neutrinos, which can change their identities as they fly through the universe --

NASA has awarded a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in McLean, Virginia, for the maintenance and operation of incident reporting programs, as well as continuing research and development to improve current and future ...

Of the more than 600,000 known asteroids in our Solar System, almost 10 000 are known as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). These are asteroids or comets whose orbits bring them close to Earth's, and which could potentially coll...

We know that Earth will die. Even if we beat global warming, and survive long enough to face and survive the next ice age, Earth will still die. Even if we build a peaceful civilization, protect the planet from asteroids...

A long-awaited update to the hardware and software system that will allow the U.S. Air Force to ingest data from its new object tracking system, known as Space Fence, will not be ready until 2018, about 19 months later t...

This Earth Day, April 22, NASA is inviting people around the world to share on social media what they are doing to celebrate and improve our home planet, while the space agency shares aspects of a "day in the life" of NA...

The congressionally mandated Space Launch Systems will be the biggest rocket ever made if all goes according to plan. NASA attempts to visualize the 'scale and power' of the rocket launching in this new animation release...

SpaceX released several high-resolution images of the Falcon 9 first stage landing on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida....

Today: SPHEROIDS Temperature and Power Check: The ESA SPHEROIDS experiment completed its two day experiment run....

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Media are invited to attend the global main stage event for NASA's fifth annual International Space Apps Challenge, April 22-24 at Cross Campus in Pasadena, California, with NASA Astronaut Doug Wheelock, Chief Informatio...

We heart you too, Sun! Active Region 2529 has taken on a heart-shape over the past few days (seen here from April 11-13, 2016).

An Air Force Test Pilot School T-38C passes in front of the sun at a supersonic speed, creating shockwaves that are caught photographically for research.

Scientists around the world are being kept in suspense by the negligible mass of neutrinos, subatomic particles, one of the fundamental particles that make up our universe that could be matter and antimatter at the same ...

The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transport System (HERTS) concept aims to use an electric sail (E-Sail) to harness the solar wind's protons and electrons, which travel at breakneck speeds of 400 to 750 kilometers per s...

Galaxy clusters do not come in neatly defined shapes so it is difficult to determine exactly where they begin and end. However, astronomers have estimated that the centre of the Fornax Cluster is in the region of 65 mill...

Is a new plan to blast nanosatellites to the stars with gigagantic lasers brilliant or crazy—or a little of both? --

Wednesday's briefing begins with the announcement of a $100 million project to develop technology that could enable chip-sized spacecraft to reach Alpha Centauri in two decades. SpaceNews.com