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The Trillion Planet Survey has begun scanning the huge Andromeda galaxy, as well as our own Milky Way, for beams of light that could have been produced by advanced alien civilizations.

Three U.S. companies will set up offices in Luxembourg, the latest sign of an ongoing effort by the small European country to diversify its space economy. SpaceNews.com

It should be no surprise that space startups are aggressively pursued by global investors. Properly valuing potential foreign investments requires parsing more than exchange rates. SpaceNews.com

The H-II Transfer Vehicle-7 (HTV-7) from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) is pictured after it was captured by the Canadarm2 operated by Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel as Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Cha...

Einstein's general theory of relativity has helped an international team of researchers measure the lumpiness of dark matter in our universe today by analyzing images of 10 million distant galaxies, and further use it to...

Five new NASA Earth science campaigns will take to the field starting in 2020 to investigate a range of pressing research questions, from what drives intense East Coast snowfall events to the impact of small-scale ocean ...

There is no shortage of eyeballs, human and robotic, pointed at Mars. Scientists are constantly exploring the Red Planet from telescopes on Earth, plus the six spacecraft circling the planet from its orbit, and two rovin...

Although it was a significant step forward for the program, this test was an optional "risk reduction" test that took advantage of an opportunity to connect the two halves of the observatory together electrically months ...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

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Six million stars in the Milky Way's disc are not behaving as they should be.

Entanglement is one of the most confusing aspects of quantum mechanics -- a field of physics that isn't exactly known to be clear-cut, sensible, common-sense or easy-to-understand.

The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping.

A NASA workshop on Technosignatures paves the way for a new approach to the search for intelligent life. The post Technosignatures are NASA’s New Target for Detecting Other Civilizations in Space. Wait. What’s a Tech...