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A new image released by NASA's Aqua satellite shows a beautiful pattern of clouds created by ships criss-crossing the Atlantic Ocean The post NASA’s Aqua Satellite Watches Ships Crossing the Atlantic Ocean appeared fir...

This op-ed originally appeared in the Jan. 15, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. The creation of the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize competition in 2007 was a masterstroke to incentivize bold new dreams of commercial sp...

We've been anticipating this for a long time: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy has completed its first Static Fire Test. Should launch "in a week or so" says Musk. The post Finally! SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Does its Static Fire Test...

The ESA recently released images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft when it witnessed a "snowstorm" while making a flyby of Comet 67P The post This was the Snowstorm Rosetta Saw When it Got 79 km Away From Comet 67P appeare...

SpaceX carried out a static fire test of the its first Falcon Heavy launch vehicle Jan. 24, which the company's founder said clears the way for its upcoming launch. SpaceNews.com

As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and other new giant telescopes come online they will need novel strategies to look for evidence of life on other planets. A University of Washington study has found a simple approach ...

For most life in the universe, oxygen might be a deadly poison. Surprisingly, that might make such creatures easier for astrobiologists to find --

@elonmusk "Falcon Heavy hold-down firing this morning was good. Generated quite a thunderhead of steam. Launching in a week or so."...

On Jan. 25, 2018, NASA launches Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, a hosted payload aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite. GOLD will investigate the dynamic intermingling of space and...

SpaceX fired up its newest, biggest rocket in a critical launch pad test Wednesday, advancing toward a long-anticipated test flight possibly in just a week.

Look into the night sky at the right time and you might see what amounts to a giant disco ball shimmering and glinting back.

Welcome to the new year, 2018. The Earth has yet again made a revolution about the sun. But not so fast. If you subscribe to the idea of a flat Earth, then you'd believe that no such thing happened, because the sun rotat...

Suppliers of solar panels and related equipment for the space industry are pivoting to serve customers planing satellites for low and medium Earth orbits as the slow down in geostationary satellite orders persists. Space...

Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition leader who was assassinated in 2015, began his career as an ambitious, creative, and aggressively questioning physicist. On 27 February 2015, Boris Nemtsov, reports Physics Today, th...

A while back, I wrote a column for Discover analyzing your place in space: astronomers' best look yet at where you fit into the big, crazy, cosmic scheme of things. Any discussion of where you are inevitably brings up th...

After more than a decade of activity, the Google Lunar X Prize is concluding—but the race to the moon continues --

After more than a decade of activity, the Google Lunar XPRIZE is concluding—but the race to the moon continues --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

SpaceX's new megarocket, the Falcon Heavy, briefly roared to life today (Jan. 24) during a successful engine test ahead of its anticipated maiden flight.

A team of researchers has used a novel technique to form a hypothesis on the origins of our rich cognitive abilities by profiling the chemicals buzzing around our brains. These compounds, known as neurotransmitters, are ...

David Scott's mission to the moon focused on science and featured the first lunar road trip.

Scientists have discovered the first evidence that brittle stars living in vibrant coral reefs use thousands of light sensors to navigate their way through their complex environments.