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On Aug. 21, 2017 a total solar eclipse will cross the continental U.S. from coast to coast. While this is certainly a rare event, this is not the first or only coast-to-coast eclipse in the U.S.

The system uses GPS data and onboard computers to monitor the rocket's trajectory and destroy it should it go off course. It was first tested earlier this year on a Falcon 9 launch from the Kennedy Space Center. SpaceNew...

After a successful launch of Russia's Progress cargo spacecraft headed to the International Space Station, falling fragments caused a fire on Kazakhstan's steppes, killing one and injuring another who tried to extinguish...

Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is considering ways to add multiple antennas to planes in order to let different satellite inflight connectivity providers serve the same aircraft simultaneously. SpaceNews.com

Senators overwhelmingly passed an amendment to an Iran-Russia sanctions bill June 15 to fix language some argued could have prevented NASA and others from launching missions on rockets that use Russian engines. SpaceNews...

Panasonic Avionics, one of the largest providers of satellite-enabled broadband to aircraft, says the long-term viability of inflight connectivity as a moneymaker remains an open question. SpaceNews.com

A study by a team of international astronomers spotted something truly rare - a failed star orbiting a star near the end of its life The post This is Kind of Sad. Astronomers Find a Failed Star Orbiting a Dead Star appea...

Mission officials for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope announced some of the science targets the telescope will observe following its launch and commissioning. These specific observations are part of a program of Guaran...

Students at the Fayette County Public Library in Fayetteville, Georgia, will speak with a NASA astronaut living and working aboard the International Space Station at 11:45 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 19. The 20-minute, Eart...

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, the curvature of spacetime was infinite at the big bang. In fact, at this point all mathematical tools fail, and the theory breaks down. However, there remained the notion th...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Mission officials for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope announced some of the science targets the telescope will observe following its launch and commissioning. These specific observat...

An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk and very little in ...

ESA Director General Jan Woerner met students at 'Libreria AsSaggi' in Rome on 15 June, to discuss the future of Europe's space activities. Watch the replay

SpaceX's Mars-colony missions may take "pinpoint rocket landing" to a whole new level.

Opposition MPs in the House of Commons are accusing the Liberal Party government of turning a blind eye to national security after it approved the sale of Norsat International to Hytera Communications Corp. of Shenzhen. ...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Did our Sun have a twin when it was born 4.5 billion years ago? Almost certainly yes -- though not an identical twin. And so did every other Sun-like star in the universe, acc...

The warming Arctic forced a climate change research ship to cancel expedition.

By teaching robots social norms, researchers think the machines could more seamlessly interact with humans.

A Chinese satellite has split pairs of "entangled photons" and transmitted them to separate ground stations 745 miles apart, smashing the previous distance record for such a feat and opening new possibilities in quantum ...

President Trump signed his first NASA authorization bill with Vice President Pence at his side. Pence said he will lead a revamped National Space Council, but it must be armed if it's reestablished. Pulling the trigger o...

Astronomers have released an image of a vast filament of star-forming gas, 1200 light-years away, in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

For decades, scientists thought that the magnetic field lines coursing around newly forming stars were both powerful and unyielding, working like jail bars to corral star-forming material. More recently, astronomers have...