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In "Making Life Multi-Planetary" Elon Musk, CEO and Lead Designer at SpaceX, presents the updated design for the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), the powerful rocket intended to propel a newly modified space vehicle to the Inter...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 27, to provide an update on the agency's James Webb Space Telescope - what will be the world's premier infrared space observatory and the biggest ast...

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX now is targeting its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station for no earlier than 4:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 2.

On Christmas Day, 1968 Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders became the first human being to see the far side of the Moon. Their mission, of course, was Apollo 8, the first time human beings had ever left Earth o...

It’s been decades since humans set foot on the Moon. Well, it’s time to go back, in theory. Of course, we’ve heard this all before. What are the plans afoot to send humans back to the Moon this time. What hardware ...

When plants on Earth search for nutrients and water, what drives their direction? Very simply, gravitational force helps them find the easiest path to the substances they need to grow and thrive. What happens if gravity ...

According to a new study by an international team of scientists, oxygen was introduced rather rapidly to Earth's atmosphere over 2 billion years ago The post About 2.3 Billion Years Ago, a Firehose of Oxygen was Released...

Satellite manufacturer Space Systems Loral on March 26 announced two satellite operators contracted the company to build geostationary telecommunications satellites ahead of fast-approaching 2020 deadlines. SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

The universe is full of mysterious exploding phenomena that go boom in the dark. One particular type of ephemeral event, called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient (FELT), has bewildered astronomers for a decade because o...

Nearly 30 years ago, the Galileo spacecraft flew past Earth on its journey to Jupiter, prompting astronomer Carl Sagan to develop a novel experiment: to look for signs of life on Earth from space. The spacecraft found hi...

Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers detected the rapid evolution and violent explosion of a dying star cocooned inside a dense shell of gas and dust.

Without figuring out why Venus and Earth evolved differently, we have no hope of predicting all the beautifully bizarre planets that will no doubt be discovered. We may also learn something about the fate of our own plan...

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On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding-and only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can see who's winning. The players are two dwarf galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud...

"Our Solar System Makes No Sense Without Planet Nine" Stephen Hawking's Great Question --"Why Isn't the Milky Way Crawling With Mechanical or Biological Life?" "The Digital Brain" --Amazing New Algorithm Recreates Human ...

Enveloping our planet and protecting us from the fury of the Sun is a giant bubble of magnetism called the magnetosphere. It deflects most of the solar material sweeping towards us from our star at 1 million miles per ho...

Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere. See more Titan facts here.

Using microlensing technique, astronomers have found a new giant planet orbiting a brown dwarf located in the bulge of the Milky Way galaxy. The newly discovered exoplanet, designated OGLE-2017-BLG-1522Lb, is most likely...

Lightning triggers powerful electrical bursts in Earth's atmosphere almost every second. The inner workings of these magnificent forces of nature are still unknown, but a rare observation by an ESA astronaut gave a boost...

A new National Space Strategy announced by the White House March 23 fits into an "America First" theme of the Trump administration, seeking to protect American interests in space through revised military space approaches...

A flat-Earth conspiracy theorist named Mike Hughes finally lifted off our spherical planet's surface into the skies aboard a self-made, steam-powered rocket Saturday (March 24).