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Ouch, that looks painful!

These stars, though extremely common, are tough to study.

This weekend, flat-Earther and amateur rocketeer "Mad" Mike Hughes will attempt to launch himself 5,000 feet into the air.

Despite all we know about the formation and evolution of the Universe, the very early days are still kind of mysterious. With our knowledge of physics we can shed some light on the nature of the earliest stars, even thou...

A new study by a pair of astronomers has shown that planets orbiting white dwarfs will still be emitting radio waves for up to a billion years. The post Dead Planets Around White Dwarfs Could Emit Radio Waves We Can Dete...

The Expedition 60 crew is gearing up for an upcoming spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for more commercial crew missions....

How do you spot a "shooting star"? Well, you don't look for eight legs; that's for sure.

As NASA continues the final stage of testing for its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) platform, the agency is inviting media to Corpus Christi, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 15, to learn more about what it t...

A ViaSat-4 series is in early development, extensively leveraging research and development on the 1-terabit-per-second or more ViaSat-3 satellites, Dankberg said during an earnings call. SpaceNews.com

The surviving cores of planets orbiting dead stars emit radio waves that scientists can detect from Earth for up to a billion years, one new study has found.

Sudden shrieks of radio waves from deep space keep slamming into our radio telescopes, spattering those instruments' recordings with confusing data. And now, astronomers are using artificial intelligence to detect those ...

Working with NASA's OSIRIS-REx team, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) approved the theme "birds and bird-like creatures in mythology" for naming surface featu...

Our week through the lens: 5 - 9 August 2019

During the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (see Part 1 and Part 2 for the complete backstory), an inauspicious event occurred sometime during 1965-1966, while the G...

As the world becomes more connected, many don't see a need for satellite, yet we must remind ourselves that the global communications network cannot survive without satellite communication. How can satellite services sur...

Iceye is publicly releasing its first synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery with a resolution of less than one meter. SpaceNews.com

The Apollo program and 1969 moon landing inspired many of the entrepreneurs working to send people and robotic vehicles back to the moon or to pave the way for further space exploration and commerce. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Life has had plenty of opportunities to spread throughout the Milky Way galaxy over the eons -- and our own Earth could be one of the key dispersal points.

An amazing new image of Jupiter captured by the Hubble Space Telescope could shed light on the gas giant's mysterious atmospheric dynamics.

Miguel Román is the sort of person whose family barbecues are interrupted by calls from Army personnel asking where they should bring generators when a hurricane strikes.

The named features on Bennu will include several terrain classification types that the IAU also approved for asteroid (162173) Ryugu's surface features (currently being explored by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 s...