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Michael Hayduk, chief of the computing and communications division at the Air Force Research Laboratory, said quantum technology will be "disruptive" in areas like data security and GPS-denied navigation.

Spacecraft outfitted with sails and propelled by the sun are no longer the stuff of science fiction or theoretical space missions. Now, a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher is taking solar sailing to the next l...

A new study used data from both Hubble and Gaia in order to obtain the most precise measurements of cosmic expansion to date. The post How Fast is the Universe Expanding? Hubble and Gaia Team Up to Conduct the Most Accur...

Ken Gabriel, CEO of Draper Labs: The idea of small satellites making up large constellations is a "powerful shift." SpaceNews.com

"While we've learned a lot about ocean viruses in recent decades, we know next to nothing about soil viruses," said Matt Sullivan, a professor of microbiology at Ohio State. "This work's viruses are so novel that they ha...

"Geysers & Fossils" --NASA Does a Deep Dive on Europa's Global Ocean "We are Very Perplexed" --Gaia and Hubble Space-Telescope Findings May Reveal a 'New Physics of the Universe' Mystery Signal from the Dawn of the Unive...

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Virgin Orbit says an agreement that could lead to LauncherOne missions from an English airport is part of an effort to both better meet the needs of its customers as well as support the U.K. space industry. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers in Australia are eager this week for a special celestial alignment that could tell them more about one of the most intriguing candidates for hosting life beyond Earth.

NASA's Human Exploration and Operations and Science Mission Directorates are collaborating to make interplanetary internet a reality.

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope studies the universe using gamma-rays, the highest-energy form of light.

NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft may have just boosted the already-impressive volcano tally on the gas giant's lava-spewing moon Io.

You probably didn't see Friday's (July 13) partial solar eclipse, but you can get an eyeful of the celestial event thanks to a photo by veteran eclipse observer Jay Pasachoff.

Today - Expedite the Processing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS) Racks (ER) Health & Status: Yesterday, the Health & Status telemetry from ER 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 was reported to be toggling and extended telemetr...

Today's hot firing of the P120C solid-propellant motor at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana proves its flight-worthinessfor use on Vega-C next year and on Ariane 6 from 2020.

NASA's coverage of the Cassini spacecraft's Grand Finale at Saturn has snagged an Emmy nomination.

A study published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy and which questions current models of structure formation in the universe is based on data obtained with the Gran Telescopio Canarias and among its authors is a ...

With the announcement that Scotland will be home to Britain's first spaceport, the U.K. is on the road to offering a one-stop-shop for building, operating and now launching satellites. SpaceNews.com

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018 during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, "spiders" begin ...

Detecting biomarkers in glacial lakes on Earth could pave the way for astrobiologists to detect evidence for life on other worlds, and also unravel the properties of the environments in which that life lived.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May in Spacezone, FIA 2018

A multinational team of scientists has just found the first fragments of the small asteroid 2018 LA, which exploded harmlessly high above Africa on June 2. The University of Hawai i's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Ale...