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When word got out that the Trump administration wanted to end government funding of the International Space Station by 2025, resistance to the idea was swift and forceful.

SpaceX is poised for the 50th launch of its signature Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday, marking a swift ascent to a milestone many aerospace giants take far longer to attain.

Lockheed CEO Hewson: The industry has to be competitive so "America can continue to be a leader in space." SpaceNews.com

Satellite fleet operator Xtar on March 5 said it is hiring a senior executive from satellite ground equipment company Comtech to replace President and Chief Operating Officer Philip Harlow. SpaceNews.com

"This discovery is surprising because the Schrödinger Equation is an unlikely formula to arise when looking at distances on the order of light-years," says Caltechs Konstantin Batygin, the theorist behind Planet 9. "The...

While taking pictures of the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, the Mars Express probe also captures pictures of Saturn in the background The post Saturn Photobombs a Picture of the Martian Moon Phobos appeared first on Un...

"We're getting stronger evidence that there's something unusual about the core-mantel boundary under Africa that could be having an important impact on the global magnetic field," says John Tardano professor of geophysic...

Where will science’s next big advance arise? Like Archimedes, maybe someone will jump up out of a tub of hot water, shout ‘Eureka’ and direct everyone to use the next great discovery. Or maybe some science-bureaucr...

Nor'easter over the east coast of the U.S., as observed 2 March 2018 by the VIIRS instrument, on board the joint NOAA/NASA Suomi-NPP satellite....

Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D carbon-based nanostructures in a mix of heated gases.

Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up our universe. Equations describing the quantum world are generally confined to the subatomic realm--t...

Now might be the best time to study unexamined caches of lunar material from the Apollo missions --

SpaceX is launching a Spanish communications satellite early Tuesday morning (March 6), and you can watch the liftoff live.

High-throughput satellite (HTS) constellations have quickly become transformative technology for satellite communications, far surpassing the bandwidth speed and throughput possible with existing satellite communications...

Computational biologist Yaniv Erlich of Columbia University in New York City and his colleagues have used crowdsourced data to make a family tree that links 13 million people. The ancestry chart, described today in Scien...

Invisible supermassive black holes, which lurk at the heart of most galaxies, can sometimes make their presence felt through the creation of powerful jets, which carry so much energy that they are able to outshine all th...

A 3D-printed artificial intelligence system, CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile CompanioN) - described by its creators as a "flying brain" - will soon join the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to assist astr...

Using data from NASA's prolonged Kepler mission, known as K2, astronomers have found a new "warm Saturn" exoplanet. The newly discovered alien world, named EPIC 247098361 b, is similar in mass to Saturn, but much hotter....

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Although this image might look more like the surface of Mars, it was actually captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission and shows southeast Namibia and the western edge of the Kalahari Desert....

Discovered in 1900 by astronomer DeLisle Stewart and here imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, IC 4710 is an undeniably spectacular sight. The galaxy is a busy cloud of bright stars, with bright pockets--markin...

ESA's Integral space observatory has witnessed a rare event: the moment that winds emitted by a swollen red giant star revived its slow-spinning companion, the core of a dead star, bringing it back to life in a flash of ...