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SpaceX isn't content with just re-using the first stages of its Falcon 9 rockets; the company aims to recover and refly the boosters' payload fairings, and perhaps their second stages as well, company founder and CEO Elo...

A remarkable new discovery using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals three stars that now hold the record as the youngest-known examples of a super-fast-flying breed. "Until these observations, only a few--but older--e...

Operations image of the week: Mission controllers monitoring the approach and docking of ATV Edoardo Amaldi with the International Space Station this week in 2012

The chief executive of mobile satellite services operator Thuraya has left the Dubai company for a job in the United States, prompting Thuraya to name Chief Technology Officer Ahmed Al Shamsi acting CEO. SpaceNews.com

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Draper are helping NASA to develop the Solar Probe Plus, the first spacecraft that will "touch"the face of the Sun. The post Solar Probe Plus Will ‘Touch’ The Sun appeare...

SpaceX is about to launch its first recycled rocket.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed 50,000 orbits. It has now imaged over 99% of the Martian surface. The post The Ever-Working Mars Orbiter Passes 50,000 Orbits appeared first on Universe Today.

Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, according to new results fro...

Our sun is a chaotic place, simmering with magnetic energy and constantly spewing out particles. Sometimes the sun releases solar flares and coronal mass ejections--huge eruptions of charged particles--which contribute t...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, according to new results fro...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The moment of truth is rapidly approaching as SpaceX attempts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket later today, Thursday, March 30, with the firms Falcon 9 standing proudly at ...

SmartSky Networks, a startup building cellular towers for in-flight connectivity -- a market coveted and dominated by satellite operators -- says it is fully funded to build out ground-based network thanks to a new $170 ...

The crew researched the effects of living in space and set up a specialized microscope for a physics experiment today. Two astronauts are also getting ready for a Thursday spacewalk to continue setting up the Internation...

A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but it may be of a variety that...

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe the remnant of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Beyond just delivering a beautiful image, Hubble may well have traced the surviving...

Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers.

The Latest on a spacewalk at the International Space Station (all times local):

Could potatoes one day support human life on Mars?

Many of the technological advances predicted in Star Trek's fictional universe have become reality, such as the mobile communicator and hand-held tablet computers. The Conversation

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and hosts the remnant of a Type Ia supernova explosion, named N103B. Hubble Space Telescope imagery was used to create this zoom-in video of the rem...

The U.S. Global Positioning System can be disrupted too easily and needs better protection, experts testified during a March 29 congressional hearing on space threats and the implications for homeland security. SpaceNews...