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These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of 24,572 kilometers (15,268 miles).

The private spaceflight company SpaceX test fired a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday (March 9), setting the stage for a commercial satellite launch next week.

SPACE VIEW PARK/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - After a pair of back to back postponements presumably due to technical gremlins, the third time proved to be the charm at last as SpaceX engineers carried out a successful engin...

The key to extending internet access to billions of people around the globe is not launching a massive constellation of satellites into low Earth orbit, but creating inexpensive terminals, senior industry executives said...

Surf’s up! Today we’re going to be talking about one of the most devastating natural disasters out there: tsunamis. We’re talking huge waves that wreck the seashore. But it turns out, there many ways you can get a ...

The initial capability will be focused on X-band provided by the U.K.'s Skynet 5 constellation. The company did not disclose a sum. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected Universities Space Research Association of Columbia, Maryland, to provide the agency with science and mission operations support for its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program.

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Planet, the San Francisco startup that began building a constellation five years ago to offer frequently updated Earth imagery, took a major step towards achieving that goal March 10 when it unveiled Planet Explorer Beta...

A new form of matter called a time crystal seems to suspend the laws of thermodynamics.

In January of 2015, astronomers discovered a solar system with five Earth-sized planets dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy. "There are far-reaching implications for this discovery," said Tiago Campante, from the Unive...

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a main driver of climate change. That is wrong, and here's how the greenhouse gas is warming our planet, courtesy of h...

Saturn's moon Pan bears a striking resemblance to a dumpling, new photos by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal.

The planet-hunting observatory stared at the TRAPPIST-1 system for nearly three months --

Quasars, stupendously bright regions in the cores of galaxies, powered by gargantuan black holes, will deepen our understanding of why nearly all galaxies have supermassive black holes at their cores, begging the chicken...

This beautiful Hubble image reveals a young super star cluster known as Westerlund 1, only 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way neighborhood, yet home to one of the largest stars ever discovered.

NASA's upcoming mission to investigate the habitability of Jupiter's icy moon Europa now has a formal name: Europa Clipper.

The idea of terraforming Mars - aka "Earth's Twin" - is a fascinating idea. Between melting the polar ice caps, slowly creating an atmosphere, and then engineering the environment to have foliage, rivers, and standing bo...

The feasibility of a gigantic radio transmitter beaming Fast Radio Burst (FRB) signals across the cosmos has been studied. Could these signals be propelling alien spacecraft?

Late last year, an international team including researchers from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University announced the discovery of more than 60 extremely distant quasars, nearly do...

In a letter, the representatives said the service should not provide funding for ULA's development of Vulcan unless it has "full access, oversight of, and approval rights over decision-making." SpaceNews.com

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in January 2017.