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Physicists think this might be the first of many hidden states of matter that could be uncovered using laser flashes.

EchoStar has ordered two tiny S-band satellites from Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems to jumpstart a low-Earth-orbit constellation using spectrum gained through its October acquisition of IoT startup Helios Wire. SpaceNews.c...

The universe is simply so vast that it can be difficult to maintain a sense of scale. Many galaxies we see through telescopes such as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the source of this beautiful image, look relative...

The astronauts on the International Space Station paid tribute to the second mission to land humans on the moon 50 years to the day after the Apollo 12 crew launched.

An international team of researchers has found evidence that magnetic reconnection is the source of spicule generation on the surface of the sun. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their...

Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune's two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research.

Expedition 61 Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA Flight Engineer Andrew Morgan will begin a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station at about 7 a.m. EST Friday, Nov. 15. NASA Tel...

Astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan, working outside the International Space Station, completed the first in a series of challenging spacewalks to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a state-of-the-art ...

One of our suspicions is confirmed concerning an adorable 50-year old baby.

Right now, we know of about 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, mostly thanks to the Kepler mission. TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will likely raise that 4000 by a lot. But what about the stars that all of the...

Neptune's two innermost moons are locked in an unusual "dance of avoidance," according to researchers.

China just tested out its brand-new facility for simulating Mars landings, marking a big step in the nation's planned march to the Red Planet.

Exos Aerospace said the failed launch of a reusable suborbital sounding rocket last month was caused by a structural failure of the rocket shortly after liftoff. SpaceNews.com

It's going to be a poor year for one of the most famous meteor showers, the Leonids.

Black holes 'have no hair': no attributes that can be used to tell them apart. Extreme black holes (spinning at maximally allowed rate) can have an additional property, permanent hair that is made of a massless scalar fi...

"Echoes of a bygone era" that favored larger body types were one of the factors that delayed the first all-woman spacewalk .

NASA's crew launches to the ISS on private vehicles built by SpaceX and Boeing likely won't begin until summer 2020, warns a new report from the agency's Office of Inspector General.

The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found.

Spaceflight causes changes in astronauts' brain structure and function during extended missions, a new study shows.

Discover our week through the lens (11-15 November 2019).

Media representatives and mission partners gathered today in Germany to see a new satellite, which will take the lead in charting sea-level change, before it undergoes final testing and is packed up for shipment to the U...

NASA's inspector general warned in a new report that, because of commercial crew delays, utilization of the International Space Station will drop sharply in 2020 and that NASA runs the risk of losing access entirely by n...