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Twenty-one robotics teams are returning to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for a fifth year to compete in NASA's $1.5 million Sample Return Robot Challenge....

"Although it has been a major theoretical prediction in recent years, this is one of the first unambiguous pieces of observational evidence for a chaotic, cold 'rain' feeding a supermassive black hole," said Yale astrono...

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CAPE CANAVERAL -- A classified surveillance satellite set to fortify the reconnaissance capabilities of America's spy masters is now scheduled to launch this Thursday afternoon, June 9, atop America's most powerful rocke...

ESA astronaut Tim Peake saw this iceberg from the International Space Station 400 km above Earth on 2 June 2016 during his six-month Principia mission. It is the same iceberg - called A56 - that he had photographed previ...

Tim Peake: Watching the Milky Way rising over the horizon Credits: ESA/NASA Larger image...

Water is a hot topic in the study of exoplanets, including "hot Jupiters," whose masses are similar to that of Jupiter, but which are much closer to their parent star than Jupiter is to the sun. They can reach a scorchin...

NASA will showcase four demonstrations of its technologies now available for licensing at TechBreakfast, a monthly event in the Washington area, at 7:45 a.m. EDT Friday, June 10.

An upcoming NASA astrophysics mission will uncover the physics governing the ultra-dense interiors of neutron stars. Using the same platform, the mission will demonstrate trailblazing space navigation technology.

At the center of a galaxy cluster, 1 billion light years from Earth, a voracious, supermassive black hole is preparing for a chilly feast.

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"If all these molecules that are necessary for life are everywhere out in space, the case gets a lot better that you'll find life outside of Earth," said aid Andrew Mattioda, an astrochemist at NASA Ames Research Center....

The hatch to BEAM was opened up again today for the second day of outfitting the expandable module to determine its habitability and durability....

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully tested a key technology needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting gravitational waves. These ...

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When I was kid, we didn't know nearly as much about asteroids as we do now. This was before we had spacecraft visiting them, really high-res radar observations, and all the other amazing tech we have now. I'm not saying ...

Fashion and spaceflight meet in a new generation of clothing created as part of a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and five European fashion schools.

Looking to the future of fashion, the European Space Agency has partnered with design schools around Europe for the Couture in Orbit project. See photos of the wild space-inspired fashion concepts here.

NASA announced June 2 that it has awarded a contract to Blue Origin to perform suborbital research flights as part of the agency's Flight Opportunities program.

The discovery that King Tut was buried with a dagger made out of a meteorite has drawn news headlines worldwide and captured the imagination of the public. But the pharaoh's blade isn't the only artifact forged from spac...

Sand dunes cover much of this terrain, which has large boulders lying on flat areas between the dunes.