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The head of NASA's human spaceflight program says he would like to see a decision made in the next two years on whether and how International Space Station operations will be extended beyond 2024. SpaceNews.com

In a drying time, Mars may have been kept warm enough for liquid water to remain stable on the surface thanks to explosive bursts of methane gas, a new study finds.

Gravitational waves are the "smoking gun" of the Big Bang. Predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1916, a massive object like Earth distorts space-time around it like a bowling ball dropped on a t...

"But with this star, you don't have the regular, periodic dips," says astronomer Tabetha "Tabby" Boyajian, a postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, soon to join the faculty at Louisiana State University. "There is no pe...

After years of raising funds and preparing, OneWeb finally can show the hardware it will rely on to bridge the global digital divide by 2027, said Greg Wyler, OneWeb founder and executive chairman. SpaceNews.com

When the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite 60 years ago, it marked both the beginning of space exploration and the start of a race between Moscow and Washington.

Astronomers have identified a bumper crop of dual supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. This discovery could help astronomers better understand how giant black holes grow and how they may produce the stron...

The Trump administration soon will complete the final draft of a broad "cyber deterrence strategy." SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: The first direct observations of gravitational waves have earned the Nobel Prize in Physics for three key players in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observa...

NASA signed its first contract with small satellite rideshare company Spaceflight to launch as many as 72 cubesats between now and 2020 for a total price of up to $5.5 million. SpaceNews.com

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. --

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory: This graphic shows two of five new pairs of supermassive black holes recently identified by astronomers using a combination of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Wide-Field ...

Global satellite operator Intelsat has teamed up with tech giant Intel to urge the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to let terrestrial communications companies make use of satellite-controlled C-band spectrum for f...

Fully opening this new window on the universe will take decades—even centuries --

"It's a paradox, an unresolved paradox of Mars," says Kevin Zahnle, a NASA scientist. "On the one hand, some people say that it looked warmish and wettish, at least occasionally. On another hand, nobody can figure out ho...

Infographic from Scientific American breaks down the technology behind our ongoing search for ripples in spacetime --

NASA will launch a small rocket from Virginia's Eastern Shore early Wednesday (Oct. 4) to test a supersonic parachute system for future spacecraft bound for Mars. The launch may be visible to observers along the U.S. Eas...

Sixty years ago, the first 'beep-beep' signal from Sputnik was heard from the heavens on the night of 4 October 1957, marking the beginning of a new era for humankind.

While it's true that we're made of star stuff, it would perhaps be more accurate to say that the universe is composed of numbers.

Cosmic rocker Joe Satriani recruited Red Hot Chili Pepper's Chad Smith and Deep Purple's Glenn Hughes for his new solo album, "What Happens Next."

Fundamentally, the detection of gravitational waves was a huge deal, as it was a confirmation of a key prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Following the epic discovery "We looked closer at the astrophy...

Fundamentally, the detection of gravitational waves was a huge deal, as it was a confirmation of a key prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Following the epic discovery "We looked closer at the astrophy...