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Gone in a (cosmological) flash: a team of astronomers found 72 very bright, but quick events in a recent survey and are still struggling to explain their origin. Miika Pursiainen of the University of Southampton will pre...

Satellite connectivity provider Global Eagle Entertainment on April 2 detailed three nearly complete international connectivity deals with airlines in Europe and Asia that have the potential to increase its number of con...

NASA has inked a deal with Lockheed Martin to develop a supersonic "X-plane" that could break the sound barrier without a sonic boom, officials said Tuesday.

Step into the future of aviation and space exploration with NASA at the USA Science and Engineering Festival on Saturday, April 7, and Sunday, April 8, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington.

Alongside the well-known hazards of space--freezing temperatures, crushing pressures, isolation--astronauts also face risks from radiation, which can cause illness or injure organs.

According to a statement made by the US Air Force, the reentry of the Tiangong-1 was confirmed over the Pacific Ocean on April 2nd. The post Tiangong-1 Splashes Down in the Pacific Ocean appeared first on Universe Today.

"The Milky Way is pretty big already. But our work shows that at least the visible part of it is slowly increasing in size, as stars form on the galactic outskirts," says Cristina Martínez-Lombilla, a PhD candidate at t...

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft stands atop its launch pad counting down to a 4:30 p.m. EDT liftoff today to the International Space Station....

The Air Force is looking to upgrade its cloud computing systems to support the massive downloads of weather data from satellites. SpaceNews.com

An international team of researchers has imaged newly forming jets of plasma from a massive black hole with unprecedented accuracy. Radio images made with a combination of telescopes in space and on the ground resolved t...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten offered his take on the president's budget, Pentagon acquisition reforms and the ongoing debate over how the military should be organized to fight in space. SpaceNews.com

The most distant individual star has been observed 9 billion light years from Earth, reports a new study in Nature Astronomy. An international team of researchers, were able to discover this star, which they have named I...

Astronomers now know of around 4000 planets in orbit around other stars. A handful of these are both Earth-sized and in the habitable zones of the stars they orbit, where the temperature is right for liquid water. But ma...

NASA has taken another step toward re-introducing supersonic flight with the award Tuesday of a contract for the design, building and testing of a supersonic aircraft that reduces a sonic boom to a gentle thump.

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in February 2018.

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in January 2018.

"Its possible that when we survey planets we may find artifacts of dead civilizations that aren't around anymore," said Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. "We humans are probably not special," Loeb added, explaining that w...

India lost contact with a communications satellite only days after the country launched the craft into space, according to multiple media reports and the Indian Space Research Organisation.

What is the first creature that comes to mind when you look at the dark cloud in this image? Perhaps a dark kitten with a vivid white nose, front paws stretching towards the right of the frame and tail up towards the lef...

NASA has announced that it has awarded funding to a combined team of researchers from the University of Alabama and an unnamed team in Japan for development of a new kind of Mars explorer. The project team has been award...

Scientists and policymakers need satellite data to understand and address climate change. Yet data from more than half of unclassified Earth-observing satellites is restricted in some way, rather than shared openly.