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AI like the malevolent HAL in the movie "2001" are already among us.

Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), in collaboration with international team members, has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of the recent photometric study of the comet Schwassman...

The word "HAZMAT" describes substances that pose a risk to the environment, or even to life itself. Imagine the term being applied to entire planets, where violent flares from the host star may make worlds uninhabitable ...

The last mission needed to complete Iridium Communications' second-generation satellite constellation is scheduled for Dec. 30, Iridium CEO Matt Desch said today. SpaceNews.com

New observations by two Arizona State University astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have caught a red dwarf star in a violent outburst, or superflare. The blast of radiation was more powerful than any such outb...

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The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, promised an investigation into the failed Oct. 11 Soyuz crew launch, and the preliminary report should be complete by the end of this week, the agency announced in a statement release...

Electrons are extremely round, and some physicists will not be pleased about it.

We still have a long way to go in the search for intelligent aliens.

Scientists have ruled out black holes as a possible source for most of the elusive dark matter scattered throughout much of the universe.

Moonlit skies over the Chinese city of Chengdu may get a boost from a second moon.

We recently came across a fascinating documentary that not only looks at some of the big questions today in multi-interdisciplinary science. We're talking about The Most Unknown, directed by Peabody-award winning filmmak...

Operations image of the week: After years of planning and countless hours of simulations, teams at ESA's mission control are ready to take flight on the long and complex journey to Mercury

To help humans really connect with one another, former astronaut Mae Jemison has a simple request -- just look up. The campaign runs all day today (Oct. 18) and people can share their experiences through a free app.

The United States already has a space agency: NASA. So why do we need a Space Force, and what would it do? Could a Space Force strain diplomatic relationships, reigniting the race to militarize space?

Fifty years ago, Walt Cunningham became one of NASA's first Apollo astronauts to fly into space and, aboard the same mission, one of the first people to use a Space Pen.

Space, that final frontier, is something that catches the attention of a country naturally inclined to believe in ideas like "Manifest Destiny" and American exceptionalism. But how well does a Space Force fit that bill? ...

Known since antiquity, Mercury has not yet delivered all its secrets. The international mission BepiColombo, scheduled to launch in the coming days, will study the planet's surface and compare its magnetic field with tha...

A two-year cycle in the gamma-ray brightness of a blazar, a galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole, has been confirmed by 10 years of observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The findings were annou...

,We are now truly living in the era of big data. And it's not just companies like Facebook and YouTube that are reaping the benefits, big data is transforming science too. In the space sciences, we have an unprecedented ...

European and Japanese double probe, BepiColombo, will take seven years to reach the solar system’s innermost planet --