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A surprising connection between cosmology and quantum mechanics could unveil the secrets of space and time --

The quest to discover whether a planet orbiting our closest neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri (4.2 light years or 25 trillion miles from Earth), has the potential to support life has taken a new, exhilarating twist.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX blasted the "largest and most complicated communications satellite ever built to orbit" for London based Inmarset at twilight this evening, May 15, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. In f...

Since landing on the Red Planet four and a half years ago, Curiosity rover has driven over 10 miles, collecting data and taking images that have greatly expanded scientific understanding of Mars.

In the year 1 million, humans might still exist -- but they won't be like humans today.

Currently, the station is in direct contact with Russia only when passing over Russian ground stations, relying on NASA the rest of the time. SpaceNews.com

Heavy rain on Mars reshaped the planet's impact craters and carved out river-like channels in its surface billions of years ago, according to a new study published in Icarus. In the paper, researchers from the Smithsonia...

A new study by a team of researchers from UBC proposes a new vision of Dark Energy, where fluctuations in spacetime allow for a net expanding effect that is slowly accelerating The post New Explanation for Dark Energy? T...

NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft solves decades old mystery that stymied Carl Sagan. Mysterious flashes are mysterious no more. The post Mysterious Flashes Coming From Earth That Puzzled Carl Sagan Fina...

Space Nation, the Finnish startup seeking to pave the way for the transition of humanity into space, announced plans May 16 conduct experiments on the international space station. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Dawn mission captured imagery of Ceres on April 29, 2017. The spacecraft's "position (was) exactly between the Sun and Ceres' surface," according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This movie was created from th...

A team of NASA scientists and engineers now believes it can leverage recent advances in a greenhouse-detecting instrument to build the world's first space-based sodium lidar to study Earth's poorly understood mesosphere.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully observed Ceres at opposition on April 29, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres' surface. Mission speciali...

The rocket's SubTec-7 payload included "more than 20 technologies to improve sounding rocket and spacecraft capabilities," according to the space agency. It launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on May...

Heavy rain on Mars reshaped the planet's impact craters and carved out river-like channels in its surface billions of years ago, according to a new study published in Icarus. In the paper, researchers from the Smithsonia...

Fifth-graders making styrofoam solar system models may have the right idea....

When two-thirds of them believe that Bigfoot exists, and students of all ages have a "dismaying" inability to tell fake news from real news, it's obvious that critical thinking education is failing.

Geoscientists have discovered that regions on top of the Earth's core could behave like giant lava lamps, with blobs of rock periodically rising and falling deep inside our planet.

Michael Fassbender, Danny McBride, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Demián Bichir, and Ridley Scott give their thoughts on traveling to space to Space.com contributor Tereza Pultarova.

Some scientists believe Pluto's red "whale"-shaped region is the mark of a giant impact -- the same one that produced Pluto's huge moon Charon.

Mysterious flashes of light shown in images of Earth from space come from ice crystals lodged high in the atmosphere, new research suggests.

The Scorpius constellation comprises some of the brightest stars in the sky.