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See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in April 2017.

It's A-OK that Vice President Mike Pence touched a piece of titanium equipment destined for outer space, despite a sign on it that stated, "Critical Space Flight Hardware, Do Not Touch," NASA said.

By electrifying tiny drops of fluid, scientists have created miniature versions of the ringed planet Saturn.

Collaboration between China and the United States in space is difficult. One initiative, though, could eventually open the door for greater cooperation between the two space powers. SpaceNews.com

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - July has begun with SpaceX maintaining a blistering pace of blasting rockets and spaceships flying to space and returning to Earth for a host of multipronged missions furthering NASA science bo...

With time running out to start work on a 2022 Mars orbiter, a NASA official said July 10 the agency plans to have a "coherent Mars architecture" for future robotic Mars missions ready for presentation an at August commit...

Satellite broadband startup OneWeb says no other system on its low-Earth orbit satellites will be built for higher reliability than the deorbit module it is including to prevent the creation of space debris. SpaceNews.co...

Three new Expedition 52 crew members are in Star City, Russia, this week completing final exams ahead of their July 28 launch to the International Space Station....

Peng Bo, head of China's National Astronomical Observation, has said of China's new, supermassive radio telescope that "FAST's potential to discover an alien civilization will be five to ten times that of current equipme...

Supernovas -- the violent endings of the brief yet brilliant lives of massive stars -- are among the most cataclysmic events in the cosmos....

A group of scientists led by researchers at Cardiff University have discovered a rich inventory of molecules at the centre of an exploded star for the very first time....

Supernovas--the violent endings of the brief yet brilliant lives of massive stars--are among the most cataclysmic events in the cosmos. Though supernovas mark the death of stars, they also trigger the birth of new elemen...

A group of scientists led by researchers at Cardiff University have discovered a rich inventory of molecules at the centre of an exploded star for the very first time.

What we'll find "is a big puzzle; nobody knows," said the Juno mission's principal investigator, Scott Bolton, from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas. "There are some scientists who believe that in order for a st...

The consortium has met with local officials and submitted a proposal to the U.K. Space Agency, with a goal of having the facility operational by 2020. SpaceNews.com

China's counterspace strategy is based on taking advantage of not only its own strengths but also the weaknesses of its potential adversaries. They could use a new threat to achieve their ultimate goal of deterring U.S. ...

Beijing this month hosted the Global Space Exploration Conference, GLEX 2017, an occasion which China used effectively to declare its goals for space and call for further engagement with the space community. The event wa...

Chinese engineers are wrapping up work on the Chang'e-5 lunar mission for a targeted November launch atop a Long March 5 booster. It will depart from the newly completed Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hain...

This month, the U.S. Department of Defense released its annual report to Congress on Chinese military and security developments. The report reflects the official views of DoD and the U.S. intelligence community on the st...

Amazon Prime Day is July 11. Here are some awesome deals and discounts for space fans.

(Phys.org)--Astronomers have detected a new low-mass eclipsing binary star in an open cluster named NGC 2632, better known as the Beehive Cluster (or Praesepe). The newly identified binary, designated PTFEB132.707+19.810...

This StarTalk episode is bursting with conspiracy theories and strange hypotheses, but that doesn't stop astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson from dropping some serious science. You'll learn why the government isn't secret...