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Are we alone in the universe? This question has been with us for thousands of years, but it is only now that science is on the cusp of providing a real answer. We now know of dozens of rocky planets orbiting stars other ...

The last time NASA assigned astronauts to the first test flight of a new U.S. spacecraft -- as it plans do for the first time in 40 years -- Bob Crippen was front and center. Now, Crippen offers NASA's new commercial cre...

Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly ambitious but technical...

NASA released an updated schedule of commercial crew test flights Aug. 2 that confirms Boeing's revised plans as well as delays for SpaceX's two demonstration missions. SpaceNews.com

The Challenger Center and the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will participate in live calls with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA's Year of Educatio...

There will be tens of thousands of commercial satellites mapping the globe in minutes. The Air Force wants to take advantage of that technology. SpaceNews.com

Thousands of planets have been discovered in the last few decades, although astronomers tell us there are probably billions. In such a large and diverse set of solar systems, it seems impossible that humans could be the ...

Thin, red veins of energized gas mark the location of one of the larger supernova remnants in the Milky Way galaxy in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), which was installed aboard the ISS this past May, just reached a milestone by creating ultracold particles for the first time in space. The post The Coldest Place in Space Has Been Created...

A Senate hearing Aug. 1 intended to discuss NASA's search for life beyond Earth turned into a discussion about the long-standing process the scientific community uses to prioritize missions. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope:

Successfully observing an object from more than four billion miles away is difficult, yet NASA's New Horizons mission team is banking that they can do that--again.

An engine flaw discovered during a launchpad test of Boeing's Starliner spaceship, designed to carry humans to the International Space Station, has delayed its first crew test flight until next year.

Imagine traveling to the Moon in just 20 seconds! That's how fast material from a 170 year old stellar eruption sped away from the unstable, eruptive, and extremely massive star Eta Carinae.

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Gemini Observatory:

Four scientists made the case yesterday (Aug. 1) to a panel of senators that they should fund NASA's search for life beyond Earth.

This ESO Picture of the Week shows a crescent-shaped cocoon of gas and dust -- a nebula known as NGC 3199, which lies 12 000 light-years away from Earth....

The handlers of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are gearing up for one last shadow-chasing adventure.

Our nearest celestial neighbor just treated us to a light show. A sharp-eyed telescope system in Spain spotted a pair of meteorite impacts on the moon in mid-July, occurring just 24 hours apart -- and you can even watch ...

Microsoft has invested in its Station Q, a lab dedicated solely to studying the field of topological quantum computing. Google has teamed up with NASA on a Quantum AI Lab that studies how quantum computing and artificial...

Scientists believe the solar system was formed some 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity possibly triggered by a cataclysmic explosion from a nearby massive star or supernova. As thi...