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Are there hints that machine life simply doesn’t happen in the universe? --

In a recent post I wrote about a study that argued dark energy isn’t needed to explain the redshifts of distant supernovae. I also mentioned we shouldn’t rule out dark energy quite yet, because there are several inde...

Where did these stars come from?

When SpaceX's billionaire CEO Elon Musk isn't running his own private space program, he's leading Tesla's electric car revolution. And sometimes, he dances.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Faroe Islands, located halfway between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic Ocean....

Rush's Neil Peart passed away on January 7, 2020 but his words and music live on.

See photos of the Full Wolf Moon and penumbral lunar eclipse of Jan. 10-11, 2020.

NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard sat down with SpaceNews to talk about exploration, NASA's prospects for getting funding to enable those exploration plans, and his first year on the job at NASA. SpaceNews.com

Three galaxies 13 billion light-years may be ending the cosmic 'dark ages' before our eyes.

One of the members of NASA's newest astronaut class graduating today (Jan. 10) might be the next to walk on the moon and perhaps might even be the first to set foot on Mars.

We tend to think of our Earthly circumstances as normal. A watery, temperate world orbiting a stable yellow star. A place where life has persisted for nearly 4 billion years. It’s almost inevitable that when we think o...

NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at a public ceremony in Houston, honoring a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America's return to the M...