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I'll confess, I came to Mars, the new National Geographic miniseries that debuted last night, with a good dose of skepticism. First of all, it is a half-drama, half-documentary blend, a hybrid mix that often ends up comb...

The sci-fi series comes to life through the lens of director Luc Besson (Fifth Element, Lucy). It hits theaters in July 2017.

The rocket that will launch the next crew to the International Space Station rolled out to its launch pad today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On orbit, the three Expedition 50 crew members are conducting huma...

The first episode of National Geographic Channel's show "Mars" -- about sending humans to the Red Planet -- demonstrates the strength of the program's unique format, which combines science fiction and documentary.

The prospect of aliens visiting Earth has been percolating through human thought for decades, thanks to countless sci-fi books and movies, such as the newly released film "Arrival." But it's still not clear how we would ...

Thirty Meter Telescope:

The ASTRI telescope - a prototype for a new type of gamma-ray telescope located on Mount Etna, Siciliy - just passed its most important test to date The post A New Prototype Telescope Proves Itself Worthy appeared first ...

UrtheCast said Nov. 10 it expects to record a $7.8 million impairment charge on two Earth-observing cameras attached to the Russian side of the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

Ready to beam up a new wardrobe? A new set of "Star Trek" fashions has debuted on nerd gear website ThinkGeek, courtesy of a collaboration with "fangirl" fashion company Her Universe.

NASA: Kepler News and Features:

A recently leaked, unpublished paper from NASA reveals that NASA has made a functioning Radio Frequency Resonant Cavity Thruster, otherwise known as electromagnetic propulsion drive or EM Drive or Warp Drive - a space en...

A proposal calling on the U.S. Mint to issue curved coins for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing has gained the support of the surviving astronauts who lifted off on the mission. Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins ...

Project Blue is aiming to develop a washing machine-sized telescope in the hopes of capturing a "pale blue dot" image of a world around Alpha Centauri A and B stars.

One of the great mysteries of the cosmos is why it is expanding at an apparently accelerating rate. Physicists have suggested an outward force, dubbed "dark energy," causes this expansion, but they have yet to discover i...

Just weeks before Sentinel-2B is packed up and sent to French Guiana for its launch next March, media representatives and specialists got one last look at the second satellite for Europe's Copernicus programme.

(Phys.org)--A new accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) has been found in one of our galaxy's most massive clusters, NGC 2808. The newly detected AMXP received designation MAXI J0911-655 and is part of an ultra-compa...

Two things I love: Astronomy, and cool clouds. I love them even more when I can enjoy both at the same time. The image above is of Saturn, taken by the Cassini space probe on Sept. 5, 2016, when it was about 1.4 million ...

NASA and its international partners have updated the assignments for several crew rotations to the International Space Station in 2017. The changes reflect a switch in assignments for some NASA astronauts, as well as a r...

See the launch of Galileo satellites 15-18 on Thursday 17 November. Streaming starts at 12:36 GMT (13:36 CET)

ESA's Ministerial Council 2016 is being held in Lucerne, Switzerland, 1 and 2 December

Establishing a sustained human presence somewhere other than Earth is a vital part of humanity's future, no matter what. We know that Earth won't last forever. We don't know exactly which one of the many threats that Ear...

A flash of light recently reminded us of the most stunning sight we ever saw.