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ASRC of Beltsville, Md., has test fired a subscale propellant injector built via additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, paving the way for a version that will be able to support whichever engine United Launch Alliance c...

In two new studies by international teams of astrophysicists, a wealth of merging black hole pairs have been discovered, which has serious implications for gravitational wave research. The post Scientist Find Treasure Tr...

Frustration over lagging modernization has reached a tipping point in the U.S. Army as rising powers like Russia and China are arming their militaries with advanced weapons and electronic warfare systems. SpaceNews.com

Welcome, come in to the 530th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. So now, on to this week’s stories...

"Everybody sort of knows that it has to be there, but this is the first time that somebody - two different groups, no less - has come up with a definitive detection," says Ralph Kraft at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center fo...

With four days to liftoff, the next Sentinel satellite is now on the launch pad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

SpaceX carried out the third of eight missions for Iridium Communications early Oct. 9, launching ten more Iridium Next satellites on a Falcon 9 from California. SpaceNews.com

The second major trailer for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" has been released by Lucasfilm. Take a look here!

Arthur C. Clarke warned us to attempt no landings on Europa in 2010: Odyssey Two, the 1982 the science fiction novel , when the Earth mission returns to the Jupiter to explore beneath the ice of Europa, nine years after....

SpaceX successfully launched 10 communications satellites into low-Earth orbit today (Oct. 9) and landed the spent Falcon 9 rocket booster on a drone ship.

The Apollo 13 mission's "problem" tested NASA's ingenuity

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday carrying 10 satellites to bolster the global data communications network for Virginia-based company, Iridium.

"Gravity is an Illusion" --The Theory That Predicted Gravitational Waves May Be Wrong (WATCH Today's 'Galaxy' Stream) The Alien Telescope --"China's Astronomers Aim to Be First to Discover Existence of an Advanced Techno...

Mercury, the innermost planet of our solar system is a grey, barren world to our human eyes. In stark contrast, this map shows a portion of the surface in a patchwork of colour, each shade corresponding to a different ty...

College senior Steven Stetzler got to meet real NASA astronauts and consider a possible future working for NASA, thanks to a nonprofit organization founded by NASA's very first astronaut class.

Aurora on Proxima Centauri b may help researchers characterize the planet's atmosphere.

At a distance of just 160,000 light-years, the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the Milky Way's closest companions. It is also home to one of the largest and most intense regions of active star formation known to exist a...

While much of industry would like to see an office that licenses commercial spaceflight activities moved out of the Federal Aviation Administration, a new report finds little support for doing so within government itself...

NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman shared his out-of-this-world experiences with attendees at the science fiction and fantasy convention Dragon Con.

The upper reaches of the sun's atmosphere are thousands of times hotter than its surface, and a new study offers a possible reason for that intense heat: countless explosions from the sun, each too small for scientists t...

NASA plans to keep an experimental expandable module attached to the International Space Station beyond its original two-year lifetime, the agency announced Oct. 2.

In the final shot of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Season 4, the team is headed for the Final Frontier -- so Space.com was eager to catch up with the cast and producer at New York Comic Con to chat about what that wi...