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Deep space is not as silent as we have been led to believe. Every few minutes a pair of black holes smash into each other. These cataclysms release ripples in the fabric of spacetime known as gravitational waves. Now Mon...

Media are invited to see how engineers and scientists are helping make NASA's deep space human exploration plans a reality at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, April 26.

Scientists working on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet's polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or en...

With Vice President Pence expected to make another space policy announcement next week, industry and government officials offered their endorsement of the work the National Space Council has done since it was reconstitut...

National Space Council Executive Secretary Scott Pace said China and Russia are to blame for space no longer being a sanctuary. SpaceNews.com

When humans try to live on the Moon and Mars, they're going to need protection from the harsh environments. Fortunately, there are ready-made homes on these worlds: lava tubes. The post Living Underground on Other Worlds...

Want to make sure you don't kick the bucket before seeing the best the night sky has to offer? Then be sure to check out my new book: "Wonders of the Night Sky You Must See Before You Die." The post See The Finest Sights...

According to a new study by an international team of astronomers, black hole mergers are common in globular star clusters The post Dense Star Clusters Could be the Places Where Black Hole Mergers are Common appeared firs...

Geoscientist Will Daniels, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Climate System Research Center, is set to embark on the trip of a lifetime this month as part of an experiment for NASA, s...

Planets orbiting "short-period" binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their host stars' evolution, according to new research from the University of Wash...

If an astronaut wears a watch on the surface of the moon, does the watchmaker have the right to then use the moonwalker's persona to market a replica of the timepiece?

"It really is quite uncomfortable. It shouldn't exist; it shouldn't be real," Marla Geha, an astronomer at Yale University who was not part of the discovery team, said of the strange galaxy. "Yet if you look at the data,...

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst training ahead of his summer launch to the Space Station

An investor in Globalstar is ready to put $150 million into the low-Earth-orbit satellite operator in the company's stock should be trading at five times current prices. SpaceNews.com

Delta IV is a type of rocket that is mainly used to boost satellites into orbit.

"Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," said Alberto Adriani, Juno co-investigator from the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome. "Now, with Juno flying over the poles a...

Are you following the planets this season? The planetary action is about to heat up, as Jupiter, Saturn and Mars all head towards fine oppositions over the next few months.

They are the most abundant form of life on Earth, but viruses - or their seed-like dormant state, known as virions - are outliers in our search for life on other planets. Now, one group of scientists are pushing for astr...

With an instrument at the Very Large Telescope in Chile scientists of ETH Zurich observed planet-forming disks around young stars similar to the sun 4,5 billion years ago. Surprisingly, the disks are very different. The ...

Through NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate's Flight Opportunities program, six promising space technologies have been selected to be tested on commercial low-gravity-simulating aircraft and suborbital rockets. T...

"Sunrise crashes an aurora party over the southern hemisphere," said astronaut Ricky Arnold of the image he snapped from the International Space Station.

Next time you eat a tomato or sweet pepper, take a closer look, because there's a good chance that its healthy appearance is thanks to one of former US President Barack Obama's speeches and ESA research for sending peopl...