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Some of the universe's greatest mysteries could soon be resolved thanks to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a huge radio telescope that will be built in South Africa and Australia. Several EPFL labs are involved in this...

Assistant Secretary of Defense Kenneth Rapuano: "The president is very interested in ensuring that the department is best organized and equipped to achieve our vital missions in space." SpaceNews.com

Loral Space and Communications wants to move ahead with a "strategic transaction" involving fleet operator Telesat that may spark a legal fight with Telesat's other major shareholder, a Canadian pension fund. SpaceNews.c...

One of the great physicist's long-time collaborators explains why his contributions to science will be remembered forever --

To prevent collisions in space, nations with advanced orbital monitoring abilities need to share data with each other. Russia, being skilled in space situational awareness (SSA), should be part of the global effort to pr...

A NASA investigation into a 2015 SpaceX launch failure concluded a design flaw, rather than a manufacturing defect, likely initiated the chain of events that destroyed the vehicle. SpaceNews.com

Mathematical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking was best known for his work exploring the relationship between black holes and quantum physics. A black hole is the remnant of a dying supermassive star that's falle...

The renowned British physicist, who died at 76, left behind a riddle that could eventually lead his successors to the theory of quantum gravity. Hawking was something of a betting man, regularly entering into friendly wa...

Not too cold, not too hot--the conditions for life are found not just on Earth, but on a handful of other places out in the universe.

Our week through the lens: 12-16 March 2018

NASA has powered on its latest space payload to continue long-term measurements of the Sun's incoming energy. Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), installed on the International Space Station, became full...

In its budget proposal for the coming year, the U.S. Air Force is trying to send the same message to foreign adversaries and critics at home: the service definitely is not underestimating threats the United States and it...

New research has revealed that a giant impact on Mars more than four billion years ago would explain the unusual amount of "iron loving" elements in the Red Planet.

A new technique developed by researchers at U of T Scarborough is using the same technology behind self-driving cars to measure the size and location of crater impacts on the moon.

Next Tuesday, at 12:15:21 p.m. EDT (16:15:21 GMT), the winter season will officially come to an end in the Northern Hemisphere.

Concerns about space junk and satellite-launch regulations are swirling after the Federal Communications Commission alleged that a U.S. company launched four tiny satellites without permission.

This is the fourth competition under the current Phase 1A EELV procurement where there has been more than one competitor for national security space missions.

Albert Einstein's vision for how gravity works was, to say the least, a radical departure from the older, Newtonian perspective.

Despite uncertainty about who will lead the agency after the end of April, NASA's current acting administrator says he expects little change in the agency's activities in the near future.

New research reveals a possible mechanism allowing “black stars” and “gravastars” to exist --

Steve - a strange shimmering ribbon of purple light in the night sky - was discovered in 2016, but now, thanks to ESA's Swarm mission, more is known about this weird feature of the aurora.

On March 16, 1966, NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott performed the first space docking on the Gemini 8 mission. See photos from that historic spaceflight here.