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Elon Musk has been rather outspoken in recent years about his plan to create a human settlement on Mars. Stressing the need for a “backup location” for humanity, he has dedicated his company (SpaceX) to the creation ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Sunday's inaugural blastoff of a commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from historic pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 19 proved to be space spectacular like none other along the Flori...

A mission to examine the habitability of Jupiter's ocean-bearing moon Europa is taking one step closer to the launchpad, with the recent completion of a major NASA review....

Seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our Galaxy called Trappist-1, revealed Wednesday, are the most recent--and arguably the most spectacular--in a string of exoplanet discoveries going back 20 years.

NASA is partnering with eight U.S. companies to advance small spacecraft and launch vehicle technologies that are on the verge of maturation and are likely to benefit both NASA and the commercial space market.

Aerojet Rockedtyne said Feb. 22 that it has agreed to buy Coleman Aerospace from L3 Technologies for $15 million in cash. SpaceNews.com

The Event Horizon Telescope should give us our first picture of a Black Hole in the beginning of 2018. The post Get Ready for the First Pictures of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon appeared first on Universe Today.

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In what is the biggest announcement in exoplanet-hunting history, NASA has announced the discovery of seven rocky exoplanets around a single star, three of which are potentially-habitable The post Huge News, Seven Earth-...

The Apollo 11 command module, which traveled more than 950,000 miles to take Americans to the moon and back in 1969, is going on a road trip, leaving the Smithsonian for the first time in more than four decades.

A baker’s half-dozen of Earth-size worlds is orbiting a (relatively) nearby star—and some could be habitable --

Astronomers say at least three of the worlds may be habitable, and could be studied for signs of life within a decade --

Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. They were detected as they passed in front of their parent star, the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. Three of them lie in the habitable zone a...

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Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, including ESO's Very Large Telescope, the planets were all detected as they passed in front of the...

The ultra cool dwarf star system is about 39 light-years from Earth. Find out how long it would take NASA's Space Shuttle, the New Horizons spacecraft and Breakthrough Starshot's proposed laser sail-propelled vehicle to ...

The historic NASA spacecraft that flew with the first U.S. astronauts to walk on the moon will launch on a national tour celebrating the 50 years since its lunar mission.

For more than a year, Inmarsat has been working with Addvalue Innovation (AVI) to conduct secret tests of a service that lets operators maintain continuous contact with small satellites in low Earth orbit. Now, the compa...

The Rosetta mission's close-up views of the curiously-shaped Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko have already changed some long-held ideas about comets. But here's more: there's a 'wind' blowing across the comet's surface, c...

Airbus Defence and Space saw its revenue decline in 2016 thanks in part to a 2.21 billion euros ($2.32 billion) charge on Europe's troublesome A400M military transport aircraft program, but the division's order intake wa...

For more than a decade, CubeSats, or small satellites, have paved the way to low-Earth orbit for commercial companies, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations. These small satellites offer opportunities to...

Snow plays an important role in Earth's water cycle, and NASA has launched a new initiative to investigate snow and its relationship to readily available liquid water.