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OneWeb says that the now near-certain collapse of its planned merger with Intelsat has by no means slowed any of the company's progress, and that other geostationary satellite operators have already expressed interest in...

New results from the gravitational-wave observatory hint that black holes move in mysterious ways --

The Expedition 51 crew members are awaiting a new space shipment and getting ready for new science experiments. The crew is also preparing for the departure of a pair of International Space Station flight engineers....

LIGO has detected a third instance of gravitational waves. Like the previous two, this one was caused by merging black holes. The post Third Gravitational Wave Event Detected appeared first on Universe Today.

SpaceX on Thursday will attempt its first-ever cargo delivery to the astronauts living in orbit using a vessel that has already flown to space once before, the California-based company said.

A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehensive look at findings from the first three-and-a-half...

In a new article, Dr. Morris Jones of METI International proposed expanding our search for evidence of intelligent life by examining more exotic forms of communication The post Are Aliens Communicating with Neutrino Beam...

A team of researchers questions the existence of an event horizon around black holes and wonders what it would look like when a star collides with one. The post What Exactly Should We See When a Star Splashes into a Blac...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one part of the lake to another, according to a comprehens...

The countdown is finally over -- Lego fans can now build their own towering model of the NASA Apollo Saturn V rocket, thanks to the launch of the new toy set. collectSPACE, Ars Technica and Space.com put the Lego moon bo...

It's not a fluke: For the third time, the LIGO gravitational wave observatory has detected ripples in space-time caused when two black holes circle each other at mind-bending speeds and collide.

Nearly 50 years after British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell discovered the existence of rapidly spinning neutron stars, NASA will launch the world's first mission devoted to studying these unusual objects.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in astronomy has been firmly opened. As was the...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in astronomy has been firmly opened....

While the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite is in orbit delivering a wealth of information about our home planet, engineers are putting its twin, Sentinel-3B, through a series of vigorous tests before it is shipped to the...

The debt swap was a condition of a planned investment by Japan's SoftBank as part of a merger with OneWeb announced earlier this year. SpaceNews.com

Nearly 50 years after British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell discovered the existence of rapidly spinning neutron stars, first thought to be signals from an alien civilization, NASA will launch the world's first mission dev...

From prayer and sacrifice to sunbathing, humans have worshipped the sun since time immemorial. And it's no wonder. At around 150m km away, it is close enough to provide the light, heat and energy to sustain the entire hu...

Getting sick when you're far from home is a drag. You'd give anything to crawl into your own soft bed and sleep, but you're stuck in a cookie-cutter hotel room feeling like a sick fish out of water. Well, it could be wor...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

On May 31, a prelaunch status briefing was held at Kennedy Space Center, prior to launch of the eleventh SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX is targeting launch of its Dragon spacecraft abo...

A long-standing question in astrophysics is: how and when did supermassive black holes appear and grow in the early universe? New research using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) su...