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A new study by a UK scientists takes a look at the different means of interstellar travel, and considers the pros and cons of each. The post Pros and Cons of Various Methods of Interstellar Travel appeared first on Unive...

A new NASA probe will use incredibly tiny, rolled tubes of carbon to analyze rocky objects like asteroids, which may hold chemical clues about the origin of the solar system and its rocky inhabitants.

A small group of students recently got to experience a rare, spaceflight thrill: seeing if the tiny satellite, called a CubeSat, they designed and built not only survived a rocket launch to space but also successfully ga...

A NASA advisory committee, concerned about delays in the development of commercial crew systems, wants the agency to look at options where the International Space Station is operated with a reduced crew. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected Alutiiq Advance Security Solutions, LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, to provide protective services at several agency facilities.

Thompson: "We needed somebody to work space every single day. Before, I didn't recognize how much that was needed." SpaceNews.com

Eutelsat on May 14 said it is taking steps to secure a foothold in the European broadband market after last month's decision to forgo jointly funding a satellite with Viasat turned the two companies into direct competito...

In a series of new studies, an international team of researchers found that if we live in a multiverse, it is likely to be as habitable as our own. The post If There is a Multiverse, Can There be Life There Too? appeared...

It is still early days for this emerging sector, but 2018 will be the year that Chinese commercial launch companies begin to take off. SpaceNews.com

The modern ship is always in touch. It navigates by GPS, just as you do. Satellites carry email, voice calls, weather forecasts and navigation charts. SpaceNews.com

Two thousand years ago, the Romans smelted precious ores in clay furnaces, extracting silver and belching lead into the sky. Some of that lead settled on Greenland's ice cap and mixed in with ever-accumulating layers of ...

Veteran astronauts Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel will embark on the 210th spacewalk Wednesday at the International Space Station to swap out thermal control gear....

After a lifetime spent probing the hazardous environments around black holes and neutron stars, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer met its fate, burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

A student-built sounding rocket soared to an altitude of 24,127 feet (7,353 meters) while traveling faster than the speed of sound.

Gen. Pawlikowski: "The size of satellites will change. The mobility of satellites will change." SpaceNews.com

An emerging technology for removing excessive, potentially damaging heat from small, tightly packed instrument electronics and other spaceflight gear will be demonstrated for the first time during an upcoming suborbital ...

"If this monster was at the center of the Milky Way it would likely make life on Earth impossible with the huge amounts of x-rays emanating from it," said Christian Wolf with the Australia National University Research Sc...

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope:

In 2017, geologists demonstrated that this species, Homo naledi, existed in southern Africa between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago--potentially the same time that modern humans first emerged in Africa. This is a puzzle to...

A group of scientists led by Avrajit Bandyopadhyay of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, has conducted chemical analysis of two bright, extremely metal-poor stars. The results of the analysis, presented May...

Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe, describing it as a monster that devours a mass equivalent to our sun every two days.

Today the federal government released its response to the review of Australia's Space Capability.