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The Earth's limb, or horizon, is pictured as the International Space Station orbited above the north Pacific near Alaska's Aleutian Islands....

NASA is delaying the launch of an ocean science satellite on one Falcon 9 rocket, but says that delay will not affect another Falcon 9 launch of a commercial crew mission. SpaceNews

Botany and technology research were the primary science objectives on Tuesday aboard the International Space Station....

An international team of astronomers has conducted an extreme simulation that modeled what the formation of the first stars looked like. The post An Extreme Simulation of the Universe’s First Stars appeared first on Un...

A new "national initiative" wants to promote the development of satellite servicing and in-space assembly technologies among U.S. government agencies that have differing views on the value of such capabilities. SpaceNews

Astronomers have detected the first fast radio burst from a magnetar in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Mysterious repeating bursts of radio waves that fire in random patterns might come from neutron stars blasting asteroids with magnetic winds that travel at nearly the speed of light.

Researchers from Beijing Normal University, Peking University and National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) found that there is weak correlation between fast radio bursts (FRBs) and so...

NASA just hailed its Voyager 2 probe in interstellar space for the first time in more than seven months.

The United Launch Alliance will launch a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office on Nov. 4, 2020. Here's how to watch.

A flash of luck helped astronomers solve a cosmic mystery: What causes powerful but fleeting radio bursts that zip and zigzag through the universe?

Most of the potentially habitable exoplanets we’ve discovered orbit small red dwarf stars. Red dwarfs make up about 75% of the stars in our galaxy. Only about 7.5% of stars are g-type like our Sun. As we look for life ...

New data from a Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the McGill Space Institute and McGill University Department of Physics, strongly suggest that magnetars--a type of neutron star believed to hav...

Mark Kelly has won a seat in the U.S. Senate, making him only the fourth NASA astronaut to be elected to Congress.

Growing meat without the need to grow a whole animal has been the dream of agriculturalists and foodies everywhere for decades. More and more companies are jumping on the bandwagon to recreate the experience of eating me...

SpaceX's Starlink satellite cluster has been receiving much headline space recently as it continues adding satellites at a breathtaking pace. Much of this news coverage has focused on how it's impacting amateur skygazers...

We probably think we know gravity pretty well. After all, we have more conscious experience with this fundamental force than with any of the others (electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear... --

Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly won his race for the U.S. Senate in Arizona Nov. 3 while two members of Congress involved in space issues lost their bids for reelection. SpaceNews

Rings detected around a newborn star may suggest that planets are born earlier than previously thought, a new study finds.

Saturn's moon Titan just keeps getting weirder -- and more tantalizing when it comes to scientists' hopes for life beyond Earth.

From the same people who made Chateau Picard Bordeaux comes Klingon Bloodwine and a new Federation Sauvignon Blanc.

The head of Russia's space agency criticized NASA's plans to return to the moon of being "too U.S.-centric."