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The year's best alien encounter movie, starring Amy Adams, is a thoughtful meditation on science, language and change.

On Nov. 11, 2016, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the powerful WorldView-4 satellite into orbit for the Earth observation imagery firm DigitalGlobe. See photos from the launch.

Cold gas in the form of neutral hydrogen atoms provides the reservoir for star formation in galaxies from the distant to the nearby Universe. Understanding how it accretes onto galaxies is of crucial importance because f...

Maria Mitchell was a 19th-century astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847. She also co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Women.

The controversial EM Drive has received a potential shot in the arm, thanks to a "leaked" report which claims it works in a vacuum. The post Was Physics Really Violated By EM Drive In “Leaked” NASA Paper? appeared fi...

He'smade several positive statements about the benefits of commercial space, butnothing about much else --

After nearly two months of delay due to wildfires, United Launch Alliance successfully launched an Atlas 5 rocket Nov. 11 carrying an important imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe. SpaceNews.com

A new instrument that took five years to build allows astronomers to capture and analyze the light reflecting off distant exoplanets. The post Princeton Team Directly Observes Planets Around Nearby Stars appeared first o...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

NASA's earliest and greatest astronauts star in a new space exhibit called "Heroes and Legends."

After delays due to wildfires, the Worldview-4 satellite is finally headed to space --

The three Expedition 50 crew members today are working to unload cargo and set up new computer servers onboard the station. In Kazakhstan, the next trio to launch to the International Space are continuing their final pre...

U.S. defense stocks rode Donald Trump's unexpected victory to solid gains, a sign Wall Street thinks the president-elect will make good on his campaign promise to boost defense spending. Analysts say some of that increas...

A strange metal object that looks like it may have come from an aircraft or rocket launcher has landed in Myanmar.

Skywatchers will be in for a treat on Monday (Nov. 14) with the rise of the biggest and brightest "supermoon" in almost 69 years. Space.com spoke with Noah Petro, the deputy scientist for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbi...

Congressman Jim Bridenstine, a member of Congress active on a wide range of space issues, is being considered for key posts in the Trump administration, including NASA administrator. SpaceNews.com

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: Pat Ammons is Director of Communications, U.S. Space & Rocket Center, to discuss SpaceCamp. Bob King is a UT contributor who will be joining us to promote his new book “Night ...

In "Heroes & Legends," the new attraction at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the public can learn more about NASA's historic astronauts and see the missions that made them heroes (and the artifacts they created in the p...

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: During a press tour of JPL, we were given an overview of the Mars 2020 mission by its Principal Investigator, Ken Farley. Mars 2020 is NASA's next flagship mission to the Red Planet. I...

Join in on the first StarTalk All-Stars Live!, recorded at StarTalk's panel at the Star Trek Mission: New York 50th Anniversary convention. The show features Andrew Fazekas, astronomy journalist and author of Star Trek: ...

Penn State University astronomers have discovered that the mysterious "cosmic whistles" known as fast radio bursts can pack a serious punch, in some cases releasing a billion times more energy in gamma-rays than they do ...

NASA has always had many dedicated men and women on loan from the armed services; and the NASA workforce has many current and former military personnel....