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The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on Ma...

A new study by an international team of astronomers has demonstrated with scientific confidence what will happen to our Sun when it reaches the end of its life cycle. The post The Future of Our Sun is Still a Bit of a Pu...

The historic first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes far outside our galaxy opened a new window to understanding the universe. A string of detections--four more binary black holes and a pair of ...

NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency's Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability a...

The prolongation of human lifespan is "the biggest thing that is going to happen in the 21st century," says David Sinclair, a Harvard biologist. "It's going to make what Elon Musk is doing look fairly pedestrian." The wo...

United Launch Alliance has picked Aerojet Rocketdyne's RL10 engine to power the upper stage of its next-generation Vulcan rocket, the second such contract Aerojet has secured in as many months. SpaceNews.com

Media are invited to cover the prelaunch briefing and launch of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO), NASA's latest Earth-observing satellite mission. The briefing on Thursday, May 17, and lau...

SpaceX has set an ambitious goal for 2019: using the same Falcon 9 booster to conduct two launches in 24 hours. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX will try again today (May 11) to launch its first-ever "Block 5" Falcon 9 rocket, and you can watch the action live.

Space is a dangerous place for humans: Microgravity sets our fluids wandering and weakens muscles, radiation tears through DNA and the harsh vacuum outside is an ever-present threat.

Syfy has canceled its sweeping space epic, "The Expanse," after three seasons.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

SpaceX debuted the new version of its Falcon 9 rocket, known as the Block 5, on May 11, 2018, with a flawless satellite launch and first-stage landing on a ship at sea. See pictures of the booster and the spaceflight act...

Our week through the lens: 7 - 11 May 2018

The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite takes us over Alaska's Columbia Glacier, one of the most rapidly changing glaciers in the world....

Physicists recently addressed a persistent flaw in a test that defines reality.

After a 25-year gap, the federal government may fund the search for intelligent aliens with $10 million for the next two years.

Two Expedition 55 Flight Engineers are using virtual reality and computer training today to prepare for next week's spacewalk at the International Space Station....

In early 2018, astronomers, neuroscientists, anthropologists, AI researchers, historians and others gathered for a "Decoding Alien Intelligence" workshop at the SETI Institute in Silicon Valley. Astrobiologist Nathalie C...

In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we've often looked for signs of intelligence, technology and communication that are similar to our own.

The Russian spacecraft that carried the first Dane to space and returned the first crew to spend a year aboard the International Space Station is now on display in Denmark.