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Sixty years after opening the space race with the launch of Sputnik 1, the Russian space program is a shadow of its Soviet predecessor. SpaceNews.com

For their immeasurable contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves, Caltech professors Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and MIT professor emeritus Rainer Weiss, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. T...

NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the first meeting of the National Space Council starting at 10 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 5.

Researchers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have devised a new way to measure the mass of our galaxy - using hypervelocity stars! The post Determining the Mass of the Milky Way Using Hypervelocity St...

Physicist Erik Verlinde will discuss his and others’ groundbreaking gravitational theories during a live webcast tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time --

The Big Bang poses a big question: if it was indeed the cataclysm that blasted our universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it? Three researchers at Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physic...

An international team of researchers has found evidence that the brightest stellar explosions in our Universe could be triggered by helium nuclear detonation near the surface of a white dwarf star. Using Hyper Suprime-Ca...

Subaru Telescope: An international team of researchers has found evidence that the brightest stellar explosions in our Universe could be triggered by helium nuclear detonation near the surface of a white dwarf star. Usin...

The ruling could allow the project to move forward after years of delays and opposition --

In 2015, a star called KIC 8462852 caused quite a stir in and beyond the astronomy community due to a series of rapid, unexplained dimming events seen while it was being monitored by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. And th...

Giant deposits of ice may not lie hidden under the surface of Mars, between its equator and poles, as recently suggested, a new study finds.

The Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite 60 years ago --

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: One of the most mysterious stellar objects may be revealing some of its secrets at last.

The Nobel Prize is just the beginning for the new field of gravitational astronomy.

Six decades after Sputnik, a refined version of the rocket that put the first artificial satellite in orbit remains the mainstay of Russia's space program--a stunning tribute to the country's technological prowess, but a...

"The Ganymede ocean is believed to contain more water than Europa's," says Olivier Witasse, a project scientist working on ESA's future Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE). "Six times more water in Ganymede's ocean than in...

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Is it a bird? Is it a Space Station? It is both ...

The Senate and the House approved a $440 million funding boost for the Pentagon's missile-defense program. SpaceNews.com

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.

Could the building blocks for life on Earth have been delivered by meteorites crashing into ponds of water 4 billion years ago?

Examining how bacteria grow in confined conditions on board spacecraft will help keep astronauts healthy during long-term space missions, such as a trip to Mars.

A view inside ESA's cavernous Hertz chamber for radio-frequency testing of satellites, which will be on show to the public during this Sunday's ESA Open Day in the Netherlands.