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Launchspace Technologies Corp. proposes sending platforms as large as football fields into low Earth orbit to sweep up space debris. The platforms also would be equipped with sensors to help U.S. government agencies dete...

United Launch Alliance has rescheduled an Atlas 5 launch of a Cygnus cargo spacecraft for April 18. SpaceNews.com

Dr Wes Fraser from Queen's led an international research project 'Colours of the Outer Solar Systems Origins Survey' Col-OSSOS, which uses data collected from the Frederick C. Gillett Gemini North Telescope and Canada-Fr...

The TRAPPIST-1 star might flare too frequently and too violently for life to exist on the TRAPPIST planets. The post TRAPPIST-1 Is Showing A Bit Too Much Flare appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story. On Wednesday, April 26, the spacecraft will make the first in a series of dives through the 1,500...

The head of the French space agency expects launch activity will resume soon at the European spaceport in French Guiana, where political protests have grounded Arianespace launches for the past two weeks. SpaceNews.com

Today at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, United Launch Alliance (ULA) hosted a panel to discuss the vision of a self-sustained CisLunar space economy....

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected in 2007. These mysterious milliseconds-long blasts of radio waves appear to be coming from long distances, and have been attributed to vari...

Imagine an aircraft structure that can change its shape in flight to reduce the sonic boom noise produced by supersonics airplanes. Or imagine an airliner that can take-off and fly with a quiet and energy efficient elect...

One of the national security space sector's longest acronyms just got a lot shorter. SpaceNews.com

A team of international astronomers recently found the closest thing to a "Venus-like" planet in a nearby star system, which could have drastic implications for "habitability" studies. The post Venus 2.0 Discovered In Ou...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, is about to begin the final chapter of its remarkable story. On Wednesday, April 26, the spacecraft will make the first in a series of dives through the 1,500...

Today - EXpedite PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS) Rack Locker Relocation: Following the successful completion of the Rodent Research-4 experiment during SpaceX-10, this morning the crew reconfigured E...

Get ready for solar eclipse mania. Destinations in the path of the Aug. 21 eclipse, which will be visible in the U.S. along a narrow path from Oregon to South Carolina, are going wild with plans for festivals, concerts a...

How time and our spacecraft fly--especially when you're making history at 32,000 miles per hour. Continuing on its path through the outer regions of the solar system, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has now traveled half ...

For this historic 444th episode of Astronomy Cast, we talk about fractals. Those amazing mathematical visualizations of recursive algorithms. What are they, how do you get them? Why are they important? Visit the Astronom...

The brief flash of light from a far-distant galaxy is unlike any seen before --

Rep. Mike Rogers said the U.S. Air Force needs a separate "Space Corps" to handle military operations in orbit, and said he'll introduce legislation to begin the process of setting up the organization. SpaceNews.com

Arianespace is a multinational company that provides satellite launch services.

Asteroid 2017 GM was first observed by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona on April 3, 2017. On April 4, it came within 10,100 miles from Earth.

Sentinel-1 radar coverage of the 1 April mudslide in Colombia shows the extent of land movement

A crowdsourced science project to find the hypothetical new world has turned up four curious candidates --