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The head of the US space agency is in talks with several global companies about taking over day-to-day operations at the International Space Station in the coming years, US media said Tuesday.

British smallsat developer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) announced June 4 it has signed an agreement for up to six launches from small launch vehicle developer Firefly Aerospace. SpaceNews.com

Georg von Tiesenhausen, the last of the German rocket team that launched the U.S. space program, has died at his home in Alabama. He was 104.

NASA's Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) has selected three informal education organizations to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning to inspire the next ge...

Got any holiday plans in March, 2019? Why don’t you join me and Dr. Paul Sutter for a trip to Costa Rica. I’ve been to Costa Rica once before, and I was amazed by the amount of wildlife and biodiversity of this amazi...

The NOAA's GOES-17 satellite, a second-generation Earth-observing satellite, recently released its "first light" pictures of Earth. The post Here’s the First Image From NOAA’s New Weather Satellite appeared first on ...

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A tiny crashed exploded above the skies of Africa on Saturday, June 2nd. It turns out, it had been discovered just hours before impact. The post An Asteroid was Discovered Just Hours Before it Exploded over Africa appear...

The kilonova event that took place last year, where two neutron stars merged, is now believed to have formed a black hole. The post Okay, Last Year’s Kilonova Did Probably Create a Black Hole appeared first on Universe...

"Stowaway microbes from Earth could confound any attempts to find actual extraterrestrial life on other planets." A team of scientists led by Rakesh Mogul from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona has discov...

What are the origins of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere? Did "protein nanomachines" evolve here before life began to catalyze and support the development of living things? Could the same thing have happened on Mars,...

How will NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shed the heat generated by its science instruments and their supporting electronics? To anyone who is not an engineer or scientist, the answer might be complex and "baffling," a...

See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in March 2018.

Russia hopes to launch most space missions from Vostochny to reduce its dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is in Kazakhstan.

Fengyun-2H is the eighth and final of the Fengyun-2 series of spin-stabilized weather satellites for geostationary orbit, development of which began in the 1980s under CASC. SpaceNews.com

In May of 2015, the Royal Astronomical Society published an astonishing paper exploring an area in space known as the Cold Spot that astronomers have identified the largest known structure in the universe. Roughly three ...

The first European facility for commercial research on the International Space Station was installed today in Europe's space laboratory Columbus. The International Commercial Experiments service - ICE Cubes for short - o...

With great sadness we announce the death of Mr Per Tegnér, former ESA Council Chair and Swedish delegate, who passed away last week, aged 74.

Astronomers have inventoried a sizable share of the universe's stars, galaxies, comets, and black holes. But are planets with sustainable civilizations also something the universe contains? Or does every civilization tha...

Once again, we have Earth's magnetic field to thank for protecting us from our fire-breathing sun.

Before ESA's Aeolus satellite is packed up and shipped to French Guiana for liftoff in August, media representatives had the chance to see this wind measuring Earth Explorer satellite standing proud in the cleanroom.

The dramatic contrast between the burnt-orange dunes and the dull-blue hills of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa makes for a stunning view from the International Space Station, as seen in a new image shot from the IS...