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Avanti Communications took down its for sale sign Dec. 20 after cobbling together a $242 million refinancing package that buys the struggling British satellite operator enough time to launch its Hylas-4 satellite next ye...

One year ago today, SpaceX landed the first-stage booster from a Falcon 9 rocket that boosted a payload into orbit. Since that day, the rocket company has repeated that feat five times. Designed as a way to save money by...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Sunday afternoons blastoff of the powerful Atlas V rocket from a seaside Florida launchpad has produced a plethora of amazing imagery as the 20 story tall rocket zoomed to orbit wit...

The journal Nature has named Gabriela Gonzalez, LIGO spokeswoman, and Guillem Anglada-Escudé, leader of the team that discovered the exoplanet Proxima b, to the publication's annual list of "10 people who mattered in sc...

While aspects of the new science-fiction film "Passengers" may seem like pies in the sky to skeptics, creators of the futuristic space thriller certainly outdid "Gravity" and "Interstellar" in the physics department.

Space sensors will help missile defense meet the next generation of threats, experts say.

Following is the final excerpt from my new book, “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos.” The book is an inside look at several current NASA robotic m...

This gorgeous image shows this month's full moon, also known as a 'cold moon', seeming to hover above a set of satellite tracking dishes on the campus of the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aerospacial (INTA), in the south...

Astrophotographer Jeff Warner took the image of the supermoon rising over Denver as captured from Green Mountain in Lakewood, CO on Nov. 14, 2016.

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Since Sputnik 1 launched in 1957, nations have been racing to gain a military advantage in space -- the ultimate "high ground." Check out the top 10 space weapon concepts from over the years.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Earth was inhospitable to complex life for billions of years, practically suffocating evolution in a nearly oxygen-free environment. Then came a shift in phosphorus concentrations to oce...

Penn State and UC Berkeley astronomer Jason Wright has been fixed on solving the enduring mystery of star KIC 846285 (but informally called "Tabby's Star" or "Boyajian's Star") located deep in an outer spiral arm of our ...

One and a half million people turned out four years ago to watch as NASA's space shuttle Endeavour slowly navigated Los Angeles to arrive at the California Science Center for display. Gil Garcetti was not among them, a r...

Erosion-carved troughs that grow and branch during multiple Martian years may be infant versions of larger features known as Martian "spiders," which are radially patterned channels found only in the south polar region o...

Operations image of the week: ESA's tracking station at Maspalomas seen by the light of a winter Moon

A pair of stunning nebulas shine as one in this colorful view captured by the Hubble Space Telescope just in time for the holidays.

Luna 9 was the first soft landing mission on the moon. The Soviet spacecraft arrived three years before the first humans stepped out on the surface.

About 100 volunteer contributors have been processing images captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Winter officially kicks off Wednesday (Dec. 21), which marks the December solstice -- the day with the fewest hours of sunlight of 2016. Here's why.

"Passengers," the new science fiction movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, is set hundreds of years in the future aboard an interstellar spaceship, but it was inspired by a real astronaut's experience almost...

Thomas Pesquet: The "eye of Africa" in the Sahara desert, Mauritania....