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Upcoming gravitational-wave observatories both on Earth and in space could soon help solve some of the greatest mysteries in science.

Astronauts on the International Space Station will begin testing an innovative algae-powered bioreactor to assess its feasibility for future long-duration space missions.

To err is human, and that saying doesn't magically become moot just because the stakes are high.

The target market for the phased array antenna are militarized Boeing jets like the Navy's P-8 surveillance aircraft and the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX's first launch to carry a large number of Starlink broadband satellites is scheduled for May 15, according to a company executive.

The ongoing collapse of the Aral Sea ecosystem, located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, shows up clearly in a video provided by NASA.

CBO: A space service under the Air Force would add up to $1.3 billion a year in costs SpaceNews.com

OneWeb has partnered with antenna maker Intellian to provide communications terminals for its low Earth orbit broadband constellation. SpaceNews.com

Most of the universe's gold, uranium and other heavy elements are generated from rapidly whirling collapsing stars, a new study finds.

A troubled effort by the Air Force Space Command to modernize the system that tracks and catalogs space objects is pivoting in a new direction. SpaceNews.com

Enough gold, uranium and other heavy elements about equal in mass to all of Earth's oceans likely came to the solar system from the collision of two neutron stars billions of years ago.

Have you heard of Interstellar Technologies? They’re the latest private company to launch their own rocket into space. They’re a Japanese company, and like other private space companies, their stated goal is to lower...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope:

A new time-lapse video shows hundreds of dark crop circles springing up in the Egyptian desert. It uses a series of satellite images dating back to 1998.

Think robots are all square corners and rigid parts? Think again. Two interns at NASA are part of a larger group working on "soft robots" that could be used for exploring worlds beyond Earth.

Astronomers have a rough understanding of how galaxies emit jets from their cores. Galaxy cores also blow out winds of ionized gas, for which researchers lack a general explanation. SRON astronomers have now found a corr...

This patch antenna under test at ESA's technical heart is designed to maintain a radio link between the two satellites making up the Proba-3 mission, allowing the pair to fly in formation to maintain an artificial eclips...

The International Space Station is the platform to study a variety of fields without gravity getting in the way. A new experiment is furthering the Station's capabilities for investigating exobiology, or the study of lif...

Several hundred million years after the Big Bang, the very first stars flared into the universe as massively bright accumulations of hydrogen and helium gas. Within the cores of these first stars, extreme, thermonuclear ...

Discovered in 2004, Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Pluto's orbit in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt. Pluto was demoted from the category of fully fledged planets in 2006 because of the discov...

On May 4, a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)-supported tissue-chip system with direct clinical applications to health conditions here on Earth was launched on the SpaceX CRS 17/Falcon 9 rocket...

When Swedish broadband service provider Ovzon began shopping around for a small communications satellite that would work in geostationary orbit, the designs that satellite manufacturers trotted out weren't exactly "small...