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NASA plans to complete by the middle of March a contingency plan for ensuring access to the International Space Station should its two commercial crew partners suffer additional delays. SpaceNews.com

Our love of black holes continues to grow as our knowledge of these celestial bodies expands. The latest news is the discovery of a rare "middleweight" black hole, a relative newcomer to the black hole family.

NASA intends to put a backup plan in place in the event that SpaceX and Boeing are not ready to fly humans to space in 2019, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The Air Force vet joined the company in December 2015 as vice president of quality and mission assurance. SpaceNews.com

President Donald Trump made no mention of the U.S. Export-Import Bank during a speech Feb. 17 some had expected to include a call for restoring the bank's full ending authority. SpaceNews.com

Jupiter’s ocean-bearing moon is the next frontier in NASA’s hunt for extraterrestrials --

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features:

The Big Bang Theory predicts three times as much lithium as observed. Where are the scientists hiding our lithium? The post The Universe Has A Lithium Problem appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA announced Feb. 17 that it will keep its Juno spacecraft in a longer orbit around Jupiter than originally planned because of concerns with the spacecraft's main engine. SpaceNews.com

Welcome, come in to the 497th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. I’m Susie Murph, part of the team...

The launch pad used to send Americans to the moon and shuttle astronauts into orbit is roaring back into action.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Samuel Mason is the Director of the Tesla Science Foundation, NJ Chapter. The mission of the Tesla Science Foundation is to establish and promote the recognition and awareness of...

New studies suggest lonely planets flying through intergalactic space were formed by star-destroying supermassive black holes. --

Earth may have a continent we didn't even know existed, scientists say. "If the elevation of Earth's solid surface had first been mapped in the same way as those of Mars and Venus - which lack the arbitrary datums of... ...

Launchpad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida sent the first astronauts to the moon, supported dozens of space shuttle missions, and now serves as a commercial launch site. Here are some of the most extraordina...

NASA's work on climate change would go to another agency, with or without funding, or possibly get cut --

'Aftershocks' from a major iceberg break caused Antarctic glacier to shed another.

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission....

The Earth's geomagnetic field increased in intensity around the Levant during the late eighth century B.C. before rapidly weakening.

This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), a highly efficient wide-field camera covering the optical and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. While this lovely ima...

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission.

While Enceladus may present itself akin to many of its sister moons, under the foreboding outer shell, this moon may house the exact conditions life needs to thrive.