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With a first flight to the edge of space under the company's belt, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson believes commercial flights of SpaceShipTwo could begin some time next year. SpaceNews.com

Radar instrument aboard a Japanese probe can spot signs of gas seeping from lakes that form as the ground thaws --

A DARPA team will "inventory the DoD space-based command-and-control capabilities, identify critical gaps, deficiencies and inefficiencies in our existing architectures." SpaceNews.com

According to a new analysis of Rosetta data, the orbiter passed through the bow shock of Comet 67/P several times during its mission. The post Rosetta Flew Through the Bow Shock of Comet 67P Several Times During its Miss...

On Sunday, Dec. 16, the comet known as 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest comet flybys of Earth in 70 years, and you may even be able to see it without a telescope.

NASA is moving a massive liquid hydrogen tank to Huntsville, Alabama for testing as part of its plans to eventually return to the moon.

Image taken by ESA Astronaut Alex Gerst @Astro_Alex aboard the ISS. Larger view...

A cloud of unhealthy air pollution shrouded the skies of northern India again this week....

InSight has been on the Martian surface for almost three weeks, prepping itself for all the science it’s going to do. But in the meantime, it’s doing what any self-respecting, modern robotic lander does: Taking pictu...

The U.S. Mint has struck its initial coins commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.

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We get to see lots more of Spock in the new full-length trailer for "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 2 plus, we learn a little more about the so-called "red angel."

While some question whether Virgin Galactic's latest SpaceShipTwo test flight actually went into space, a number of government officials and industry organizations have few doubts that it did. SpaceNews.com

Our week through the lens: 10 - 14 December 2018

The dream of traveling to another star system, and maybe even finding populated worlds there, is one that has preoccupied humanity for many generations. But it was not until the era of space exploration that scientists h...

On the night of December 13, into the morning of December 14, 2018, tune into the night sky for a dazzling display of fireballs. Thanks to the International Space Station, this sky show - the Geminids meteor shower--will...

The SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured this image of a white dwarf feeding on its companion star, a type of Red Giant called a Mira variable. Most stars ...

The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) are so sensitive that t...

Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed views of a young star taken to date, and revealed an unexpected companion in orbit around it.

Business Finland, a Finnish trade and economic development agency, awarded a 10 million Euro ($11.36 million) grant to radar satellite operator ICEYE. SpaceNews.com

Call it a cosmic coincidence: Two probes launched four decades apart, traveled in opposite directions -- and ended up using similar instruments to gather milestone data on precisely the same day.

For the first split second after the Big Bang, the universe was nothing but an extremely hot "soup" of quarks and gluons -- subatomic particles that would become the building blocks of protons and neutrons.