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Hoping to recover quickly after suffering a calamitous launch pad explosion of their Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral some two months ago, SpaceX is aiming to resume launches of the booster in mid-December, said company...

Scientists from the University of Bristol and partner universities in Germany, France, Canada and Wales, have discovered a huge magmatic lake, 15 kilometres below a dormant volcano in Bolivia, South America. The body of ...

Space exploration oddball Mars One has announced a merger with a Swiss mobile payment company called InFin AG. The post Mars One Merges With Mobile Payment Company In Odd Restructuring appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured video of methane clouds scudding through the skies of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

The new head of NASA's science directorate says he wants to incorporate more innovation into its various missions, but acknowledges that there are limited opportunities to do so in the near future with current missions.

This November, the Leonid meteor shower will be visible from Earth once again. Find out when, where and how to see the meteors with this viewing guide.

Breakthrough Listen has begun using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia to scan the heavens, representatives of the ambitious, decade-long project announced Monday (Nov. 7).

A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements, giving rise to successive generations of stars in these 'astrono...

A new theory of gravity might explain the curious motions of stars in galaxies. Emergent gravity, as the new theory is called, predicts the exact same deviation of motions that is usually explained by invoking dark matte...

Here's the ultimate absentee ballot! For NASA astronauts, home is Houston when they're not circling the globe. a 1997 Texas law allows U.S. astronauts to vote from space. A secure electronic ballot is forwarded to the as...

(Phys.org)--Astronomers from India and Russia revealed new information about the composition of the galaxy UGC 3672. According to a paper published Nov. 4 on the arXiv pre-print server, UGC 3672 is actually a triplet of ...

Black magic. That's what radiofrequency engineers call the mysterious forces guiding communications over the air. These forces involve complex physics and are difficult enough to master on Earth. They only get more baffl...

Searching the universe for strange new star systems can lead to some pretty interesting finds. And sometimes, it can turn up phenomena that contradict everything we think we know about the formation and evolution of star...

How did our galaxy come to be known as the Milky Way?

I have a very strong suspicion today will jangle the nerves of a lot of you, my fair readers, no matter whether you are a US citizen or citizen of the planet. So, to recollect your fraying mind, how about we breathe deep...

Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying our changing planet.

The United States Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane would make a nice medical-evacuation vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS), some researchers say.

NASA plans to launch a suite of tiny, next-generation satellites into Earth's orbit to study weather patterns and climate change.

Learn all about the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane, which has flown four mystery missions to date.

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is off the planet at the moment, but he still had his say in this year's presidential election.

A Manchester-based astrophysicist has presented research at a major international conference which is expected to provide scientists with valuable insights into the behaviour of gravity in the early stages of the univers...

Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, today announced its first observations using...