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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The worlds emerging 'Digital Society' gained a big boost following SpaceX's stunningly beautiful twilight launch of a Falcon 9 that successfully delivered the huge 6.7 ton mobile Inmarsat-5 F4 ...

On May 23, the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on how the Outer Space Treaty (OST) will impact the future of American commerce in space. Conspicuously absent is the following quest...

The best result on dark matter so far--and we just got started." This is how scientists behind XENON1T, now the most sensitive dark matter experiment world-wide, commented on their first result from a short 30-day run pr...

NASA astronauts will take an unplanned spacewalk Tuesday (May 23) to replace a failed data relay box outside of the International Space Station, restoring critical redundancy to the orbiting outpost, agency officials sai...

New Zealand has never had a space program but could soon be launching commercial rockets more often than the United States.

RNA is the corner stone of all life on Earth and probably carried the first information at the outset of life, but making RNA requires both purine and pyrimidine nucleotides to be simultaneously available. A solution to ...

The crescent moon and Venus will shine before dawn on Monday (May 22). Here's how to see the two brightest objects in the night sky before sunrise.

To prepare for the total solar eclipse that will cross the continental United States on Aug. 21, 2017, Space.com has been reading up.

Make sure you're ready for the total solar eclipse that will cross the continental U.S. on Aug. 21, 2017, just three months from today (May 21).