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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest single dish radio telescope int the world. The Science Channel explores the telscope in a new episode of 'Impossible Engineering." Premieres...

Thanks to ESA, airports can now use satellites to identify and manage obstacles that could pose a risk to flight safety.

The Long March 7 rocket that will launch the Tianzhou-1 spacecraft arrived last week at the Wenchang launch site for a launch planned for the latter half of April. SpaceNews.com

The full Pink Moon passes within a few degrees of Jupiter on Tuesday (April 11). Here's what you need to know.

A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet - an effect not seen by astronomers before, a new NASA study suggests....

NASA has selected Kay and Associates, Inc., in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, to provide center logistics services and aerospace ground equipment support services (CLS & AGESS) for the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center...

Spanish satellite operator Hisdesat is trying to retrieve money it paid Kosmotras for a long-overdue Dnepr launch of a radar satellite that Hisdesat has rebooked on a SpaceX Falcon 9 for a flight late this year. SpaceNew...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

The appearance of supermassive black holes at the dawn of the universe has puzzled astronomers since their discovery more than a decade ago. A supermassive black hole is thought to form over billions of years, but more t...

The appearance of supermassive black holes at the dawn of the universe has puzzled astronomers since their discovery more than a decade ago. A supermassive black hole is thought to form over billions of years, but more t...

The android 'Walter,' played by Michael Fassbender, is built and put on the market in this new promotional video for 'Alien: Covenant.'

Dr. Oscar Monje, a research scientist, packs a growing substrate called arcillite in the science carrier, or base, of the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) inside a laboratory at the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA'...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Stefan Lamoureux at the Links Through Space blog.

Space Science Image of the Week: Marking the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter's first year in space with a new stereo image of Mars

Today - Advanced Plant Experiments (APEX)-04: The crew configured the Veggie facility for the next APEX-04 Petri Plate sample for a four-day growing cycle. After the four days of growth, the petri plate will be inserted ...

The parachutes of the CST-100 Starliner were tested after it was dropped from an altitude of 38,300 feet. Multiple parachute deployments were captured by an on-board camera.

ESA Science & Technology : Over the past decade, the international Cassini mission has revealed intense activity at the southern pole of Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, with warm fractures venting water-rich jets that hint...

Budweiser has committed to brewing a beer for colonists on the Red Planet. "The King of Beers" revealed its "Bud On Mars" long-term effort, including plans to launch experiments to the space station, at the SXSW festival...

(Phys.org)--An international team of astronomers led by Philippe Delorme of the Grenoble Alpes University in France has recently investigated a mysterious object designated CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 (CFBDSIR 2149-0403 f...

Today - Fluid Shifts Chibis Measurements, Day 1: The 48S crew member performed the first of two days of operations in the Russian Segment conducting the Return minus 45 day (R-45) Fluid Shifts operations....

The space flight scene is in a state of upheaval. Something along the lines of a democratisation of space is happening - at least as far as the lower orbits are concerned. For several years, numerous universities have be...

Space is filling up with junk. "It's not like there's a storm of metal and if you venture into space you're going to get clobbered," says Professor Russell Boyce, Chair of Space Engineering at UNSW Canberra. "But the ris...