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The Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill Aug. 1 that would streamline commercial launch and remote sensing regulations but also includes language conflicting with a House bill. SpaceNews.com

A curious thought experiment explores the physics at play on and within exotic worlds --

The Fenix propulsion system, a pen-sized thruster designed by Italian tech company D-Orbit, could revolutionize the way CubeSats operate in orbit. The post Look at This Adorable Pen-Sized Booster, Perfect for Tiny Satell...

The special two-day release of "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" in select theaters across the country brings the adventures of spacefaring bounty hunters -- and a loveable "data dog" -- back to the big screen.

Search-and-rescue teams with NASA, Boeing and the U.S. Army hustled to assist an imaginary crew out of an inflatable space capsule at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico during a simulated recovery of Boeing's ne...

Calling the hypothetical undiscovered world in the outer solar system "Planet Nine" doesn't show the proper amount of respect to the discoverer of the original ninth planet, Pluto, a group of researchers argues.

This summer, Mars and Saturn have come pretty close to Earth -- and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured every magnificent detail.

The Kepler supernova, of which only the supernova remnant remains, took place in the constellation of Ophiuchus, in the plane of the Milky Way, 16,300 light years from the sun. An international team led by the researcher...

Numerous microgravity investigations are wrapping up this week onboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 56 crew is carefully packing the research results and science gear inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo cra...

Seen on a microscopic support, this sharp-edged grain of rock is an extraterrestrial object - a tiny sample from the Itokawa asteroid, retrieved by Japan's Hayabusa mission and now being tested by ESA researchers.

Critical review of growing archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets relating to the Middle and Late Pleistocene (300-12 thousand years ago) hominin dispersals within and beyond Africa, published today in Nature Hu...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has cleared the final procedures in the clean room before its move to the launch pad, where it will be integrated onto its launch vehicle, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy. This is an his...

NASA's efforts to better understand asteroid impacts has found unexpected support from a new satellite sensor designed to detect lightning. New research published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science finds th...

Japanese and U.S. missions could yield new discoveries about the origins of life on Earth --

Dubbed Rio 2.0, the scale seeks to measure how important any potential signal from aliens might be --

Five years after first emailing NASA about designing astronaut spacesuits, streetwear designer Heron Preston is a step closer to fashion's final frontier.

The next mission to Mercury has a scheduled start date. Liftoff of Europe's and Japan's BepiColombo mission is scheduled for Oct. 19 at 0145 GMT (Oct. 18 at 9:45 p.m. EDT), the European Space Agency stated.

Small satellites will soon pack an outsized power punch, if one company's plans come to fruition.

Humans have big dreams of setting foot on another planet -- but before we do, we'll need to figure out how to keep our cooties to ourselves and how to protect ourselves from the life we may find there.

If Earth suddenly turned into an Earth-size pile of blueberries, things would start exploding. This is science.

Senators preparing a new NASA authorization bill want to ensure that the agency's long-term focus remains human missions to Mars even as it plans flights to the moon. SpaceNews.com

For the first time scientists have observed the gas giant sending magnetic waves back to its ring system and its moon Enceladus --