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According to two new papers submitted by a Harvard Professor and an independent scientists, extra-terrestrials might have a hard time getting out into space. The post The Challenges of an Alien Spaceflight Program: Escap...

Henderson Island lies in the South Pacific, about halfway between New Zealand and Chile....

Since the beginning of the Space Age, humans have relied on chemical rockets to get into space. While this method is certainly effective, it is also very expensive and requires a considerable amount of resources. As we l...

Media are invited to see Vice President Mike Pence swear in Jim Bridenstine as NASA's new administrator at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 23, at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The ceremony will air live on NASA Te...

NASA has awarded a contract to the Manhattan Construction Company, of Arlington Virginia, for the construction of the Instrument Development Facility at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Delta IV Heavy is a variant of the Delta IV line, and is one of the world's most powerful operational launch vehicles.

As Lockheed Martin prepares to complete assembly of the Orion spacecraft flying on the first SLS mission, the company says it's making progress in lowering the costs of the future spacecraft, including through reuse. Spa...

Before it went bankrupt last year, XCOR Aerospace aimed to fly tourists to space with the company's Lynx suborbital vehicle. But now, XCOR's assets will help give high school and college students hands-on experience with...

"Cave art was part of the package deal in terms of how homo sapiens came to have this very high-level cognitive processing," says Miyagawa, a professor of linguistics and the Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language ...

Students from Coral Gables, Florida, and the Texas Gulf Coast will talk with astronauts aboard the International Space Station next week as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station.

Biomedical research to improve health on Earth and in space dominated today's science activities aboard the International Space Station....

Two days before the Allied forces declared victory over Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, a high-tech German submarine set out from Denmark on a mysterious mission. The sub was a brand-new Type XXI U-boat, hailed ...

Astronomers studying the motions of galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation came to realize in the last century that most of the matter in the universe was not visible. About 84 percent of...

New Shepard is a rocket manufactured by Blue Origin for space tourism. It is designed to take up to six passengers into suborbital space inside of a crew capsule.

Our week through the lens: 16-20 April 2018

"This particular source of gamma rays was found towards an unusual cluster of stars which harbors one of the Milky Way's most massive and energetic young stars, a luminous blue variable star called LBV1806-20," says Asso...

A team of researchers from France and the U.S. has created a computer simulation of the development of the solar system focusing on Jupiter and the origins of its moons. In their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint serv...

Better data from the Gaia spacecraft also promises to shed light on mysterious brown dwarfs --

Many of NASA's most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini or Galileo--all large machines that could measure up to a school bus.

A multinational team of astronomers involving the University of Adelaide has catalogued over 70 sources of very high energy gamma rays, including 16 previously undiscovered ones, in a survey of the Milky Way using gamma ...

Jim Bridenstine shouldn't necessarily expect smooth sailing now that he's finally in as NASA administrator, experts say.

The iconic Hubble Space Telescope is about to turn 28 years old, and a batch of gorgeous new imagery helps mark the occasion.