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How stripped-envelope supernovas lose that outer envelope is not entirely clear....

Air Force asked to submit a plan to provide the United States Central Command with persistent weather imagery. SpaceNews.com

Development of a NASA mission to collect samples on Mars for later return to Earth has suffered a setback, although one that project officials said should not affect its 2020 launch date. SpaceNews.com

A wide variety of life science is being explored today aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 55 crew members prepare for a spacewalk planned for next month....

A reauthorization bill for the FAA passed by the House April 27 includes several provisions intended to support its commercial spaceflight activities, including a major increase in authorized spending levels. SpaceNews.c...

QAnon, is an expansive, complicated pro-Trump conspiracy theory, fascinating as an artifact of our current political derangement, but more than that, it's profoundly revealing about the lengths to which some Trump suppor...

Students from Montana and Vermont will talk with astronauts on the International Space Station next week as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station.

The new podcast "The Habitat" takes listeners into the dome of a simulated Mars mission, where six volunteers live for a year in isolation from the outside world in the lava fields of Hawaii.

As teams of observers try to replicate those findings in the few places on Earth that are relatively undisturbed by radio interference, theorists are struggling to make sense of the signal. "The signal does not look like...

The nuclei of most galaxies host supermassive black holes with millions or even billions of solar-masses of material. Material in the vicinity of such black holes can accrete onto a torus of dust and gas around the black...

Mercury is small, fast and close to the sun, making the rocky world challenging to visit. Only one probe has ever orbited the planet and collected enough data to tell scientists about the chemistry and landscape of Mercu...

Our week through the lens: 23-27 April 2018

"People have lived in these regions for millennia, and we've developed over time different ways to deal with droughts when they do occur," says Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studi...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Whether a worm, a human or a blue whale, all multicellular life begins as a single-celled egg. From this solitary cell emerges the galaxy of others needed to build an organism, with each new cell developing in the right ...

A group of students and researchers at Delft University of Technology are designing a starship capable of keeping generations of crew alive as they cross the gulf between stars - and they've turned to ESA for the starshi...

ESA and NASA signed a statement of intent today to explore concepts for missions to bring samples of martian soil to Earth.

Roundup from ESA WebTV of Day 2 at the Berlin Air and Space Show, 26 April 2018

Three new projects to improve the efficiency and sustainability of cotton farming on Earth will soon head to space.

Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter has captured its first image from its science orbit: a gorgeous photo showing a 25-mile-long (40 kilometers) stretch of the ice-rimed Korolev Crater, in the Martian far north.

White holes, which are theoretically the exact opposites of black holes, could constitute a major portion of the mysterious dark matter that's thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, a new study finds.

United Launch Alliance has named a longtime Boeing executive who has led work ranging from the International Space Station to commercial crew vehicles as its new chief operating officer. SpaceNews.com