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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Air Force announced on Wednesday it is awarding three contracts collectively worth about $2 billion to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and United Launch Alliance to develop launch ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Loon, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, is promoting networking technology and user interfaces it developed to operate its high-altitude balloons for constellations of nongeo...

We’re not learning that the vast majority of potentially habitable worlds out there are actually icy moons like Europa and Enceladus. Good news, there are hundreds, if not thousands of times more of them than worlds li...

According to a new NASA-backed study, Europa's surface may be covered in towering icy spikes, which could make a landed mission there difficult. The post Europa is Going to be Tough to Land on, it Could Have Towering Wal...

A report by NASA's inspector general Oct. 10 criticized both NASA and Boeing for delays and cost overruns in the development of a key component of the Space Launch System, and warned of more delays and overruns to come. ...

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The next rocket that will launch NASA's Nick Hague and Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin to the International Space Station stands ready at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....

The Israeli organisation behind the country's first mission to the moon on Wednesday announced a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019.

In theoretical research that could explain everything from planet formation to outflows from stars, to even the settling of volcanic ash, Caltech researchers have discovered a new mechanism to explain how the act of dust...

In a keynote speech at AUSA, Shanahan called on the Army to change how it buys technology for its future force, especially in newer areas of warfare like cyber and space. SpaceNews.com

Doctor Who Season 11 is off to a strong start, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should watch it.

Boeing is investing in Accion Systems Inc., a Boston startup focused on scalable electric propulsion technology for satellites.

A few decades ago, finding life beyond Earth was an idle dream -- but today, astrobiology is a thriving field, fed by incredible discoveries across different realms of science and the possibility of still more to come.

A rock that had been used as a barn doorstop on a Michigan farm for the last 30 years is actually a massive meteorite worth over $100,000.

A recently published study led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology reveals Ganymede, an icy moon of Jupiter, appears to have undergone complex periods of ...

If you ever wanted to follow in Neil Armstrong's footsteps to the moon, you can do so this month -- in virtual reality.

Last Wednesday (Oct. 3), actors and comedians Donald Faison and Bobby Moynihan sat down at the AOL Build studio to talk about the new "Star Wars Resistance" animated series, in which they are both comedic voice actors.

When John Campanella's friend wanted his beloved Ferrari painted, he knew exactly who to call. After all, Campanella had been painting, pinstriping and even airbrushing flames on to cars, motorcycles, airplanes, 18-wheel...

The company's contract with the European Space Agency, signed in September, marks the biggest deal for GMV and the biggest for Spain's space industry. SpaceNews.com

A bright new star appeared in the sky in June, 1670. It was seen by the Carthusian monk Père Dom Anthelme in Dijon, France, and astronomer Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk, Poland. Over the next few months, it slowly faded t...

On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, more than 200 guests from around the world gathered on the northern array site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to celebrate the inauguration of the first prototype Large-Sized Telesc...

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