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Some of the most extreme outbursts observed in the universe are the mysterious jets of energy and matter beaming from the center of galaxies at nearly the speed of light. These narrow jets, which typically form in opposi...

Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked--with one side permanently facing their host star--according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes of the University of Wa...

Australian scientists have discovered why heavyweight galaxies living in a dense crowd of galaxies tend to spin more slowly than their lighter neighbours....

NASA has procured combined data support services under an agreement with the Norwegian Space Centre in Oslo, Norway, for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program and various cooperative international missions. Thi...

RigNet, a supplier of telecommunications services to the oil and gas industry, has pulled out of a $65 million capacity lease on Inmarsat's Global Xpress satellite constellation, triggering a legal dispute between the tw...

For the first time, astronomers have observed a cosmic event in great detail that they only had glimpses of before: a supernova and its explosive ejecta slamming into a nearby companion star. The discovery was made possi...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a Dragon cargo spacecraft Aug. 14 with a diverse payload of science experiments for the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

What message would you send to outer space? --

A Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX launched the company's robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station today (Aug. 14) -- and the rocket's first stage came back down for a soft landing shortly thereafte...

In an effort to find new treatments for Parkinson's disease, researchers are sending their experiments to space.

A total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth about once every 18 months. But because Earth's surface is mostly ocean, most eclipses are visible over land for only a short time, if at all. The total solar eclipse of A...

Experiments seeking a better understanding of Parkinson's disease and the origin of cosmic rays are on their way to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft following today's 12:31 p.m. EDT launc...

To help you capture the biggest solar eclipse in nearly 100 years, we're giving away a Canon EOS Rebel T7i along with the accessories you need.

Successful test suggests “Archinaut” system could soon assemble huge structures in orbit --

Successful test suggests “Archinaut” system could soon assemble huge structures in orbit --

SpaceX is about to launch a few tons of research to the International Space Station--plus ice cream.

LIGO Gravitational Wave Discovery Reveals Our Milky Way Galaxy Harbors as Many as 100 Million Black Holes -- "Far More Than Anticipated" Life After Death? --Physicists Says "It's Quantum Information that Transcends from ...

In its pursuit of missions that will take us back to the moon, to Mars, and beyond, NASA has been exploring a number of next-generation propulsion concepts. Whereas existing concepts have their advantages - chemical rock...

At the center of our galaxy, roughly 26,000 light years from Earth, lies the supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A*. Measuring 44 million km across, this object is roughly 4 million times as massive as ou...

If you've been paying attention, you know that on Aug. 21, we're in for a special cosmic treat: the Great American Eclipse of 2017.

Searches for the most distant galaxies have now probed earlier than the first billion years in the history of the universe, early enough to start seeing the primary effects of the first stars: the reionization of neutral...

A team of astronomers led by William Dixon of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, has presented new spectral analysis of the ultraviolet-bright star Y453. The study, presented Aug. 3 in a paper ...