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SpaceX has now launched the most powerful spacecraft since the Apollo era - the Falcon Heavy rocket - setting the bar for future space launches. The most important thing about this reusable spacecraft is that it can carr...

Lockheed Martin has decided to publicly release the technical specifications of its satellite platforms. SpaceNews.com

NASA centers across the country are opening their doors Monday, Feb. 12, to media and social media for "State of NASA" events, including a speech from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, and unique opportunities ...

Star-shaped and swallowtail-shaped tiny, dark bumps in fine-layered bright bedrock of a Martian ridge are drawing close inspection by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.

Another asteroid is headed our way--the second this week--but there's no need to worry.

Magnetism plays a critical role in various solar phenomena such as flares, mass ejections, flux ropes, and coronal heating....

Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane....

A star about 100 light years away in the Pisces constellation, GJ 9827, hosts what may be one of the most massive and dense super-Earth planets detected to date according to new research led by Carnegie's Johanna Teske. ...

Dark matter is increasingly puzzling. Around the world, physicists have been trying for decades to determine the nature of these matter particles, which do not emit light and are therefore invisible to the human eye....

NASA scientists have found a way to adapt a handful of recently developed technologies to build a new instrument that could give them what they have yet to obtain: never-before-revealed details about the winds on Mars an...

"Before I became an astronaut, I had seen stories of astronauts who had seen white flashes from radiation while they flew in space," says Terry Virts, a former Nasa astronaut. On the fifth night of his first flight - a.....

He was a theoretical physicist's theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to our understanding of black holes and string theory, among other things --

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Video: a rollercoaster ride with superstar DJs on Europe's zero-gravity science aircraft

NASA has given Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) formal approval for the company's first cargo mission to the International Space Station in late 2020.

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has been live-tweeting his attempts to discern the correct orbit, tweeted Wednesday, "Elon is still talking about the Starman going ...

You can now take a walk in NASA's original astronauts' shoes, or at least a pair that was inspired by them, if you are among the very lucky few. Heddels announced the "Mercury All American," a PF Flyers high-top sneaker ...

Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station Thursday, Feb. 15, to move components for the station's robotic system into long-term storage. Live coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 5:30 a.m. ES...

Thanks to a little help from a supermassive black hole and Einstein's general theory of relativity, a group of researchers spotted the first evidence of exoplanets outside of the galaxy, the scientists said.

The NASA X-ray image above shows the Perseus galaxy cluster, approximately 240 million light-years away from Earth. The x-ray radiation emitted by galaxies and galaxy clusters still poses numerous puzzles to astrophysici...

Crewed flights of the Dragon spacecraft and preparations for the Big Falcon Rocket are on the agenda --

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