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The Breakthrough Listen SETI project has scanned the interstellar Comet Borisov for "technosignatures" but come up empty so far.

Emerging technologies and new strategies are opening a revitalized era in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). New discovery capabilities, along with the rapidly-expanding number of known planets orbiting...

SpaceX just fired up the Falcon 9 rocket booster that will launch the company's next batch of Starlink satellites into space this weekend.

A huge chunk of ice twice the size of Washington, D.C., just broke off of Antarctica's Pine Island glacier, continuing a troubling trend that could signify glacial collapse.

Have you ever wanted to join the Resistance and fight alongside Poe and Finn to free the galaxy from the tyrannical rule of the First Order?

As Astra prepares for its first orbital launch attempt, the company is setting expectations accordingly and taking the long view towards its goal of frequent, low-cost access to space. SpaceNews.com

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,000 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 3:21 p.m. EST Saturday from NASA's Wallops...

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched a commercial Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station for NASA after a week of delays.

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived on Florida's Space Coast on Thursday (Feb. 13), completing a cross-country trek from the company's California headquarters.

High wind delayed Northrop Grumman's supply run to the International Space Station on Friday.

Scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets, including dozens of terrestrial--or rocky--worlds in the habitable zones around their parent stars. A promising approach to search for signs of life on these worlds is ...

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative today released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy and the region around its central black hole, and it is inviting the...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 20, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

It's Valentine's Day and the folks at Google are celebrating with a tale of love across the universe between two adorable aliens.

A new study led by the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa has helped refine understanding of the amount of hydrogen, helium and other elements present in violent outbursts from the Sun, and other types of solar "wind,"...