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When NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landed in 2012, it brought along eclipse glasses. The solar filters on its Mast Camera (Mastcam) allow it to stare directly at the Sun....

The internet shopping giant has asked international spectrum regulators to provide access to airwaves for a constellation of 3,236 satellites. SpaceNews.com

Gravitational waves - the invisible ripples in the fabric of space predicted by Albert Einstein - are opening up a new era of astronomy that is allowing scientists to see parts of the universe once thought to be invisibl...

A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by University of Warwick astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star ultimately consumes....

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket performed a static fire test today (April 5), helping pave the way for a planned April 9 launch for the huge rocket.

It's back to exploring the universe for the devastated Avengers, who appear to be heading straight back to their enemy Thanos after he destroyed many of their allies in a previous film.

Amazon is joining the list of companies planning a constellation of thousands of satellites for broadband internet connectivity.

This week we get acquainted with the constellation Bootes.

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft slammed a copper cannonball into the asteroid Ryugu last night (April 4), in an effort to blast out a crater.

The third edition of NASA's "International Space Station Benefits for Humanity" book now is available.

For five months in mid 2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving to her office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, she sat at her desk, opened up her computer, and stared at image...

Hayabusa2 released the projectile to make a crater on the asteroid's surface --

House Armed Service Committee Chairman Adam Smith on Thursday sent a letter to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson questioning "what seems to be a rush to move ahead in the procurement strategy."

Israel's Beresheet lander finally concluded a spiraling journey out of Earth's orbit and into the moon's, and the SpaceIL team celebrated with stunning photographs of the far side of the moon.

Music has long been known to affect people's mood. A certain tune can lift you up or bring you to tears, make you focus, relax or even run faster. Now a study is investigating how the power of music may improve human per...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 10, to discuss select science investigations and technology demonstrations launching on the next Northrop Grumman commercial resupply mission to the In...

Engineers designing ESA's Hera planetary defence mission to the Didymos asteroid pair are developing advanced technology to let the spacecraft steer itself through space, taking a similar approach to self-driving cars.

Small launch vehicle developer Relativity announced April 5 a contract with Telesat to launch a portion of that company's low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation. SpaceNews.com

How ESA's space medicine experts equip astronauts with the knowledge they need for spaceflight

When the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies accrete material, they can eject powerful jets of charged particles at speeds approaching that of light. These particles in turn emit radiation across the elect...

Yesterday the MELiSSA pilot plant at the University of Barcelona celebrated 10 years spent demonstrating the ideal technologies to recycle waste from space missions into air, water and food.

Since 2012, engineers at EPFL's Space Center have been hard at work on a new junk-clearing satellite to capture debris orbiting the earth. The team has now shifted up a gear, founding a company called ClearSpace to pick ...