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The head of the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, George Nield, will retire in March after nearly a decade in the job. SpaceNews.com

An international team of astronomers recently conducted a study of the Milky Way center to determine why it has a comparatively low rate of star formation. The post Amazing High Resolution Image of the Core of the Milky ...

Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, returned to Earth on Tuesday after months of performing research and spacewalk...

A detailed study of a giant impact crater on the Moon's far side could provide a roadmap for future lunar explorers.

Once in orbit after it launches this fall, NASA's ICESat-2 satellite will travel at speeds faster than 15,000 miles per hour. Last week, the satellite's instrument began its journey toward space riding a truck from Maryl...

As a general rule of thumb, if there is a puzzling phenomenon occurring somewhere deep in outer space, a black hole is often the culprit behind it.

Is Musk's Tesla Roadster in space a biological threat to life on other worlds, a back-up for life on Earth, or a harmless bauble? The post Bacteria Surviving On Musk’s Tesla Are Either A Bio-threat Or A Backup Copy Of ...

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Now, after 12 years of experimental effort, a team of scientists, led by ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration astronomer Judd Bowman, has detected the fingerprints of the earliest stars in the universe. Using radio ...

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Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe (the Big Bang), the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies, and the universe was filled primarily with neutral hydrogen gas.

Astronomers may have spotted, albeit indirectly, the very first starlight in the universe—plus some new evidence about the properties of dark matter --

The private spaceflight company Stratolaunch is building the world's largest aircraft for future rocket launches from the sky. See photos from the first taxi tests of the Stratolaunch carrier aircraft here.

Two years ago I began taking up the childhood dream of writing comics. To say it is more difficult than it looks is to commit oneself to criminal understatement. Writers don't write comics so much as they draw them with....

Whether it's space or defense technology, successful innovation doesn't come easy, even for SpaceX. CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company almost terminated the Falcon Heavy program three times after it started in 2011....

Simon Lock wants to change the way you think about the Moon.

Asia's largest geostationary satellite operator Sky Perfect Jsat has agreed to buy $4.5 million worth of stock in U.S. maritime connectivity company KVH Industries. SpaceNews.com

A deep-dive analysis of the defense industrial base will be submitted to the White House in mid-April. SpaceNews.com

Such flares dim hopes for life on the Earth-mass world --

The walkway that astronauts will cross when boarding NASA's next spacecraft bound for the moon has now been raised into place.

Italy is usually associated with relatively warm weather, but this week it has fallen victim to the Beast from the East

The Canadian government will support the development of low-Earth-orbit satellites that can bring internet services to rural parts of the country. SpaceNews.com