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An astronaut walkway added by SpaceX to a historic NASA launch pad looks decidedly different from the heritage hardware it is replacing, but it carries on a 50-year legacy leading crew members atop Pad 39A to their ride ...

The Global VSAT Forum, an association of satellite communications companies that addresses spectrum, cyber, signal interference and other challenges, announced David Meltzer as its new secretary general. SpaceNews.com

For the first time ever, measurements from NASA Earth-observing research satellites are being used to help combat a potential outbreak of life-threatening cholera. Humanitarian teams in Yemen are targeting areas identifi...

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Using Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, PSI Associate Research Scientist Elizabeth A. Jensen's team observed radio signals from the MESSENGER spacecraft and discovered that solar eruptions known to cause communica...

It was Aug. 14, 2017, just one week before the Moon would cross paths with the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow across the United States. The entire country buzzed with anticipation for the fleeting chance to see the co...

The latest gem to come from the second release of Gaia data is a 3D map that shows the positions of 400,000 stars within 10,000 light years. The post This is a 3D map of 400,000 Hot Massive Stars Located Within 10,000 Li...

New research suggests why Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, waited about two million years for its early-formation growth spurt.

ESA's Mars Express radar team recently made an exciting announcement: data from their instrument points to a pond of liquid water buried about 1.5 km below the icy south polar ice of Mars.

Two plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children have been unveiled in a dedicated ceremony held today in Switzerland.

You can thank the solar system's head-spinning early years for Earth's rotation.

Researchers make significant progress toward proving a critical mathematical test of the theory of general relativity --

This dramatic image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 3918, a brilliant cloud of colorful gas in the constellation of Centaurus, around 4,900 light-years from Earth.

The Hubble Constant is the unit of measurement used to describe the expansion of the universe. The cosmos has been getting bigger since the Big Bang kick-started the growth about 13.82 billion years ago.

Philosophers have debated the nature of "nothing" for thousands of years, but what has modern science got to say about it?

The first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the astronomy community last year, but not quite as much as the first-ever signal from extraterrestrial life might someday stun the world.

If we’re limited to existing technology, the task would be daunting, to say the least --

With careful attention from an astronaut, a blood cell experiment may deliver improvements on cancer-fighting treatments.

Space reporter Amy Thompson documented SpaceX's first Block 5 rocket booster's first two launches on May 11 and Aug. 7.

I watched the first two launches of the ultra-reusable Block 5 rocket booster from SpaceX.

Katherine Johnson -- a mathematician at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia who helped make human spaceflight possible -- celebrated 100 trips around the sun this weekend.