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A "core-collapse" supernova occurs when the iron core of a massive star collapses under the force of gravity and then rebounds, generating pressure waves and shocks that propagate outward. A superluminous supernovae is a...

A gravitational wave detector that's 2.5 miles long isn't cool. You know what's cool? A 25-mile-long gravitational wave detector.

Sierra Nevada Corp.'s largest investment to date is in Dream Chaser, the spaceplane NASA selected in the initial rounds of its campaign to encourage companies to build private space taxis to transport astronauts to and f...

SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA's new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket's navigation systems, the California-based company said.

A new space traffic management policy announced by Vice President Mike Pence April 16 would give the Commerce Department, and not the FAA, responsibility for providing space situational awareness data to satellite operat...

"The VIIRS sensor today was built to meet all of the DoD's weather needs for electro-optical infrared," said Wallis Laughrey, Raytheon Space Systems vice president SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

According to a new study by a team of researchers, it is possible that we might find evidence of another industrial civilization in the geological record The post Could We Detect an Ancient Industrial Civilization in the...

Ever wanted a deeper dive into the life of the International Space Station?...

Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? Over the course of tens of millions of years, however, all of the direct evidence of a civil...

In recent history, a very important achievement was the discovery, in 1995, of 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet ever found around a normal star other than the Sun.

The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), a recent addition to the International Space Station, is the largest growth chamber aboard the orbiting laboratory. Roughly the size of a mini-fridge, the habitat is designed to test whi...

Stratolaunch expects to conduct the first flight of its giant aircraft this summer as it develops a broad spectrum of launch services that will make use of it, the company said April 16. SpaceNews.com

University of Miami astrophysicist Nico Cappelluti studies the sky. An assistant professor in the Physics Department, Cappelluti is intrigued by the cosmic phenomena of super massive black holes, the nature of dark matte...

NASA's next mission to continue the search for Earth-like worlds is ready to blast off.

Andrew Jordan, chief executive of regional fleet operator AsiaSat, resigned April 16 a year and a half after taking the position. SpaceNews.com

Almost all space missions launched so far by our civilization have been based on chemical propulsion, writes Harvard's Abraham Loeb. The fundamental limitation here is easy to understand: a rocket is pushed forward by ej...

Are we alone? NASA's new planet-hunting mission, poised to launch Monday, aims to advance the search for extraterrestrial life by scanning the skies for nearby, Earth-like planets.

From anyone else, it would sound ridiculous: Elon Musk says SpaceX is going to try to land a rocket stage with ... wait for it ... a "giant party balloon."

Searching for signs of ice on Mars is complex. To explore whether ice lurks beneath the surface of the Red Planet, ESA's Mars Express uses its radar to probe the interior.

"My great hope is that TESS will find new mysteries," said Dr. Stephen Rinehart, a project scientist for the mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "Maybe we'll find something out there tha...

"We look at that is time and movement information as a couple of golden threads that we can attach to our geolocated, time-stamped data," Richard Blain, Earth-i CEO SpaceNews.com