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Engineers carried out a critical hot fire engine test firing with the first new engine controlling 'brain' that will command the shuttle-era liquid fueled engines powering the inaugural mission of NASA's new Space Launch...

Observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies. These are the first confirmed observation...

Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the halo of a nearby starburst galaxy in unprecedented detail.

A six-year-old company headquartered near Charlotte, North Carolina's busy international airport raised $66 million this February as it nears completion of an air-to-ground network of 250 cellular towers. When finished, ...

To time how long it takes a pulse of laser light to travel from space to Earth and back, you need a really good stopwatch--one that can measure within a fraction of a billionth of a second.

NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, who is making final preparations for an April 20 launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 8 to 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 4.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

A docking port that was once used to attach the space shuttle orbiters to the International Space Station was moved at the complex to support the future arrival of commercial crew spacecraft.

Jen Rae Wang has been selected by Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot as NASA's Associate Administrator for the Office of Communications. Wang joins NASA with more than a decade of experience at the highest levels of s...

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The same kind of large-scale planetary waves that meander through the atmosphere high above Earth's surface may also exist on the Sun, according to a new study led by a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Re...

Infant stars have been discovered inside raging streams of material spewed into space by a monstrous black hole. Surfing on the jet stream, these stars could influence the evolution of a galaxy.

High above Earth, two giant rings of energetic particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field create a dynamic and harsh environment that holds many mysteries--and can affect spacecraft traveling around Earth. NASA's V...

"The possibility that a large ocean once occupied the Martian northern plains is one of the most important and controversial hypotheses to have originated from the exploration of Mars," the researchers wrote in the study...

SpaceX is not the first to announce a commercial mission to the moon. Other efforts have come and gone with no visible progress. SpaceNews.com

Experiments led by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggest the particles that cover the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, are "electrically charged." When the wind blows hard enough (approximate...

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The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has been used to detect stars growing within the outflows emanating from the massive black holes. The newborn stars are also traveling at high velocities away from...

"This is a challenging experiment because we're having to look through a foreground -- namely, the Milky Way galaxy -- that is at least four orders of magnitude brighter than the signal that we're trying to detect," said...

Strikes pushed back the launch several times last week, and unrest is escalating as 27 unions plan a general strike today in the French overseas holding. SpaceNews.com

(Phys.org)--A team of Indian astronomers has recently studied a peculiar binary system designated PDS 11, revealing new insights into the nature of its stars. The findings, presented Mar. 17 in a paper published on arXiv...

We don't know when they formed, but a phenomenon first proposed by Einstein could help us find out --