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The mass of the payload is large enough that all of the rocket's performance will be needed to place the satellite into orbit. SpaceNews.com

The first set of images from the GOES-16 satellite have been released by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N0AA). The geostationary satellite will be used for weather forecasting, severe storm tracking and...

An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has discovered one of the brightest "non-active" galaxies in the early universe. Finding...

The first sighting of clustered dwarf galaxies bolsters a leading theory about how big galaxies such as our Milky Way are formed, and how dark matter binds them, researchers said Monday.

Israeli satellite operator Spacecom says efforts to sell itself to a Chinese company have stalled in recent weeks, but the Tel Aviv company has not given up on the merger. SpaceNews.com

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New studies show cosmic radiation could be even more damaging to astronauts' brains than we thought. Can humanity still live and travel among the stars? --

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The title for December's eighth installment of the "Star Wars" episodic series has been announced as "The Last Jedi."

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, has made two trips to Trump Tower and met with President Trump in the White House yesterday on his first full day in office. It appears they discussed a possible manned mission...

Many meteorites found on Earth are remnants of one titanic solar-system collision that took place more than 460 million years ago. But researchers have found the composition of space rocks before then are quite different...

Four hundred and sixty-six million years ago, there was a giant collision in outer space. Something hit an asteroid and broke it apart, sending chunks of rock falling to Earth as meteorites since before the time of the d...

Just as aircraft flying at supersonic speeds create cone-shaped sonic booms, pulses of light can leave behind cone-shaped wakes of light. Now, a superfast camera has captured the first-ever video of these events.

The book and movie "Hidden Figures" celebrate the contributions of African-American "human computers" who performed mathematical equations and calculations in the early days of the U.S. space program.

Saturn, the ringed planet, will shine like a bright beacon in the pre-dawn sky on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

Cosmologists trying to understand how to unite the two pillars of modern science - quantum physics and gravity - have found a new way to make robust predictions about the effect of quantum fluctuations on primordial dens...

Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for the first photos from NOAA's newest weather satellite, GOES...

This animated gif shows the build up of frosts in a 73 x 41 km section of the north polar ice cap of Mars between November and December 2004.

The Curiosity rover has been on Mars since Aug. 6, 2102. In the more than four years it's been there, it's seen wonders beyond our Earthly reckoning: evidence of ancient flowing water, evidence of ancient standing water,...

A vital missile reconnaissance satellite for the U.S. Force soared to space atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral at dinnertime Friday night, Jan. 20, 2017.

New efforts hint that nearby world GJ 1132 b may have an Earth-like atmosphere with water and methane --