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SpaceX said Oct. 28 that it is able to replicate the failure of a helium tank that is suspected, but yet to be confirmed, as the cause of Falcon 9 pad explosion nearly two months ago. SpaceNews.com

The SETI community is rethinking how reports of extraterrestrial life should be shared with the public.

Virgin Galactic is planning to begin glide flight tests of its second SpaceShipTwo next Tuesday, almost exactly two years after a fatal test flight of its first suborbital spaceplane. SpaceNews.com

The findings may help explain a deep and abiding solar mystery Solar scientists have a problem: They haven't been able to fully explain why the Sun's atmosphere is about 100 times hotter than its surface. Now, observatio...

New studies are providing increasingly sensitive results, slowly shrinking the box of parameters where dark matter particles can hide. The failure to find them has led to renewed interest in studying how well primordial ...

On Oct. 23, Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft safely arrived at the International Space Station - six days after being launched on an Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia....

Lightning storms millions of times more powerful than those on Earth could be responsible for unexplained radio signals from planets orbiting other stars. In 2009, radio telescopes picked up faint emissions from the HAT-...

I was puttering around on the evening of July 6, 2016, when I got an email from Bad Reader John Kozura: "Go look outside and north at the clouds! Check the waves!" I couldn't see from where I happened to be but I had my ...

SpaceX is closer to understanding last month's rocket explosion at its launch pad.