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There may be more habitable planets in the universe than we previously thought, according to Penn State geoscientists, who suggest that plate tectonics--long assumed to be a requirement for suitable conditions for life--...

GAO: The military can save money and get capabilities on-orbit faster by hitching rides on commercial satellites. SpaceNews.com

Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James: The disruption from having to create a separate military service for space will distract from the space warfighting mission. SpaceNews.com

Seismic waves are helping researchers uncover the mysterious subsurface history of the Tibetan Plateau, possibly lending insight to future earthquake activity in the region....

Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, in their stories....

For the first time in history, Einstein's theory of General Relativity was confirmed by observing a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy The post Einstein Was Right… Again! Successful T...

Although the surface of Mars is inhospitable to known forms of life today, features that resemble dry riverbeds and mineral deposits that only form in the presence of liquid water provide evidence that, in the distant pa...

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This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will be launched into the Sun's outer atmosphere.

Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, in their stories. Scientists themselves have proposed terraforming to enable the ...

When two Sun-like stars collide, the result can be a spectacular explosion and the formation of an entirely new star. One such event was seen from Earth in 1670. It appeared to observers as a bright, red "new star." Thou...

Comets are one of those great question marks in observational astronomy. Though we can plot their orbits thanks to Newton and Kepler, just how bright they'll be and whether or not they will fizzle or fade is always a big...

Canadian fleet operator Telesat on July 30 selected Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies' Space Systems Loral division to collaborate on the design of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation. SpaceNew...

Every three to four years, spectrum regulators convene to set rules on the use of the world's limited radio frequency resources at an event known as the World Radiocommunication Conference. Next year the United States' r...

An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth's atmosphere - and falling from it - according to recent research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S. The bacteria and viruses are swept up in t...

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): For Release: Monday, 30 July 2018, 11 a.m. EDT Summary: Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a form, or isotop...

Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the Sun is older than the Earth, it's hard to find physical objects that were around in...

Could we make Mars Earth-like? Not with existing technologies, one new paper suggests.

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Stars, galaxies and an eerie, green airglow light up the sky over a hotel famously infiltrated by James Bond in the 2008 film "Quantum of Solace."

A secretive California company carried out a suborbital launch from an Alaska spaceport July 20, but a week after the event few details about the event are clear, including its outcome.