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CSIS study: A space-based missile defense is impractical and ineffective to protect the United States and its allies. SpaceNews.com

A team of U.S. astronomers studying the star RZ Piscium has found evidence suggesting its strange, unpredictable dimming episodes may be caused by vast orbiting clouds of gas and dust, the remains of one or more destroye...

The world's first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars colliding, causing a massive blast that rippled through the fabric of space and time, was judged the scientific breakthrough of 2017, the journal Science said...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: A team of U.S. astronomers studying the star RZ Piscium has found evidence suggesting its strange, unpredictable dimming episodes may be caused by vast orbiting clouds of gas and dust,...

December 21 2017: Today's links to headline stories from around the world on the threats, opportunities, and dangers facing our fragile planet --along with an occasional dash of humor, popular culture, and an intriguing ...

Trump: The U.S. government will team up with commercial firms to "improve the resiliency of our space architecture."

Physicists demonstrated that in the unique circumstances of quantum-correlated nuclei inside a chloroform molecule, entropy can spontaneously decrease.

It was a good year for a very bad conspiracy theory.

On Wednesday, NASA revealed the two finalists for its New Frontiers program which could be exciting news for scientists searching for extraterrestrial life. The two missions will further explore past targets--Saturn's la...

Today - Zebrafish Muscle 2: Following the fixation and stowing of experiment units (EUs) from Group A earlier this week, today the crew performed fixation on the EUs from Groups B and C and then stowed them in the refrig...

Learn more about January's full "Wolf Moon," which peaks Jan. 1 or 2, depending on your time zone. Then prepare for the Blue Moon of Jan. 31, including a total lunar eclipse!

The quest to determine the nature of both dark matter and dark energy has led scientists to adopt new tracers of the large-scale structure of the Universe, such as emission line galaxies. These galaxies present strong em...

A look back at the highlights of 2017 for Europe in Space

Implementing the Trump administration's space policy requires increased reliance on the growing array of commercial space capabilities to enable human to return to the moon and go to Mars and beyond. SpaceNews.com

ESA's next miniature satellite will be its first able to change orbit. Thanks to a compact thruster resembling a butane cigarette lighter, the cereal box-sized satellite will fly around its near-twin to test their radio ...

Astrophysics is a branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to seek to understand the universe and our place in it.

A huge European astronomy survey, whose results are released today (21 December 2017), has revealed that the view of the Universe provided by traditional optical telescopes is seriously biased.

Soaring some 23 miles over the South Pole, a University of Kansas experiment slung from a high-altitude weather balloon is calculating how the surface of Antarctica reflects radio signals caused by ultra-high-energy cosm...

The winter solstice is in full stride today (Dec. 21), which boasts the fewest hours of daylight for 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere.

Look up tonight for the peak of December's lesser-known display of shooting stars, the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks overnight on Dec. 21 and 22.

Astronomers will soon get another look at the big, ghoulishly weird space rock that buzzed Earth on Halloween three years ago.

A new crowdfunded documentary will look at the crowd behind the Apollo moon landings.