At a Senate hearing, SpaceX laid out its vision to provide global access to broadband internet with a "constellation of satellites".
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A team of researchers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have spotted a wave of hot gas larger than the Milky Way in the Perseus galaxy cluster.
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Located along the ecliptic plane is the Cetus constellation, the fourth largest constellation in the sky and one of the original 48 listed in the Amalgest.
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Elizabeth Turtle , a researcher at NASA's JHUAPL, reveals the latest details of "the Dragonfly" - a proposal for an aerial vehicle that could explore Titan in the coming decades.
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Between proposals for missions to the Moon and Mars in the coming decades, JAXA is proposing a mission to the moons of Mars.
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A new image of the Small Magellanic Cloud reveals its population of stars in stunningly rich detail.
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A team from MIT (with support from NASA) is building an instrument that will be able to test for signs of life in-situ, and on other planets and moons.
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Science fiction has promised us a rocket that blasts off into space without stages. How close is reality to the science fiction dream of a single stage to orbit?
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Enjoy the wonder of seeing bits of Halley's Comet rain down as the Eta Aquariid meteors Saturday morning.
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While we're searching the Universe for evidence of life, we should consider places in our own Solar System where ancient civilizations might have left an impact.
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When the WFIRST observatory comes online in the mid 2020s, it will take images 100 times larger than the Hubble.
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A new type of "space fabric", which closely resembles chainmail, could revolutionize the way spaceships and space components are manufactured.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX today staged the stupendously successful Falcon 9 rocket launch at sunrise of a mysterious spy satellite in support of U.S. national defense for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) while simultaneously accomplishing a breathtaking pinpoint land landing of the boosters first stage that could eventually dramatically drive down the high costs of spaceflight.
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Building on the success of their Biomolecule Sequencer, NASA is launching the Genes in Space-3 project to give astronauts the ability to study microbes in space.
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An international team of scientists, relying on data from XMM-Newton, have discovered a slowly-rotating pulsar that is slowly speeding back up
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A new video based on ESA's Gaia Mission lets you gaze into the crystal ball and watch the Milky Way galaxy evolve right before your eyes.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - A classified surveillance for the nation's spymasters is set for blastoff shortly after sunrise on Sunday, Apr. 30 by SpaceX in a space first by the firm founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk that also features a ground landing attempt by the booster. Update: Scrub reset to May 1
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LEGO announced their new LEGO Apollo Saturn V rocket set for June 1, 2017. With 1969-pieces, it'll be the tallest to come out of their Ideas community.
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