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The asteroid impact that wiped out most dinosaurs may have taken place during the Northern Hemisphere's spring or early summer, according to new research on the infamous mass extinction.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 14, to discuss science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

The Pentagon's Space Development Agency is planning a new procurement of satellites that will be part of a global constellation of missile-tracking space sensors. SpaceNews

If Russia, China or any other country targeted a U.S. satellite with missiles or other weapons, the United States would respond in a "proportional manner," said Brig. Gen. John Olson, the senior reserve officer of the U....

Something strange is happening to skywatchers' most anticipated comet of the year.

If you ever wanted to be an astronomer, now is your chance....

An Electron rocket topped with two commercial Earth-observation satellites lifted off Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 7:02 p.m. EST (0002 Dec. 9 GMT).

Although the chance of an asteroid impacting Earth is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across carries enough energy to cause widespread damage around the impact site. NASA lead...

NASA has selected a diverse group of projects from museums, science centers, library systems, and other informal education organizations across the country as NASA Informal Education Community Anchors.

Russia's anti-satellite missile test has raised calls for the United States and its allies to push for international norms to ban such tests. But reaching an agreement on space arms control could take years or even decad...

Astronomers may have, for the first time, detected a sunlike star erupting with a giant outburst 10 times larger than anything similar ever seen from our sun.

Compared to other primates, human slumber is exceptionally short. Did it once give us an evolutionary advantage?

Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope hasn't photograph...

Space exploration doesn't happen in a vacuum. Instead, our ideas of space exploration are shaped by our cultural contexts, according to architecture and urban design professor Fred Scharmen.

A consortium led by British small satellite maker SSTL has secured UK Space Agency funding to study a mission to remove two spacecraft from low Earth orbit by 2025. SpaceNews

The popular DJI FPV drone makes FPV flying a little less scary and much more accessible to newcomers.

Citizen scientists have discovered a new object orbiting a Sun-like star that had been missed by previous searches. The object is very distant from its host star--more than 1,600 times farther than the Earth is from the ...

The latest images from the Juno mission at Jupiter includes views of giant storms and vortexes on the gas giant world in amazing detail. A new batch of images recently arrived at Earth from JunoCam, the visible light cam...

In comparison to terrestrial wireless, standards have played a much more limited role in the satellite world's more insular ecosystem. But as the industry transitions from legacy analog hardware to digital software, stan...

The planetary nebula includes an intricate network of filaments and knots.

Astronomers spying on a stellar system located dozens of lightyears from Earth have, for the first time, observed a troubling fireworks show: A star, named EK Draconis, ejected a massive burst of energy and charged parti...

The head of Roscosmos announced Dec. 8 that the agency has selected the first cosmonaut to go on a SpaceX commercial crew mission to the International Space Station, although a seat barter agreement between NASA and Rosc...