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A possible planet in a nearby stellar system may be betraying its presence in a unique way: by a shadow that is sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding a young star....

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SpaceX plans to resume flights of its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, after pinning down the cause of a launchpad explosion that destroyed a satellite in September, a spokesman said.

China constructing world's highest altitude gravitational-wave observatory in Tibet, 5,250 meters above sea level near the Line of Actual Control with India which will help Beijing gather data on primordial gravitational...

Two stars are predicted to merge and explode in 2022 producing a bright star visible to the unaided eye....

NASA's Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Resigns - "Predicts Proof of Alien Life in 20 Years" (VIEW VIDEO) China's Astronomers to Lead Search for ET Life With World's Largest Radio Telescope --"Some Warn ET Civilizations Hidd...

Matthias Raudonis took this image of the ISS over Vienna on June 10, 2016.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today "accepted the investigation report" regarding the results of SpaceX's investigation into the cause of the company's catastrophic Sept. 1, 2016 launch pad explosion of a Fal...

Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce "sparks" that could vaporize and melt the soil, perhaps as much as meteoroid impacts, ac...

The incredible HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter turned its eyes away from its usual target - Mars' surface - and for calibration purposes only, took some amazing images of Earth and our Moon. Combin...

Interstellar forecast for a nearby star: Raining comets! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comets plunging into the star HD 172555, which is a youthful 23 million years old and resides 95 light-years from Eart...

The position of the Defense Department's principle adviser on space could be eliminated in a reworking of personnel, the current holder of the office said Friday. SpaceNews.com