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New work from Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and the American Museum of Natural History's Jacqueline Faherty identified nearly a thousand potential members and 31 confirmed members of stellar associations--stars of similar a...

The carrier aircraft for Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne system has performed a series of test flights in preparation for upcoming flights with the rocket attached. SpaceNews.com

According to new research by a team of Japanese researchers, samples from the Itokawa asteroid provide new clues to the asteroid's evolutionary timeline. The post Hayabusa’s Target Itokawa Formed 4.6 Billion Years Ago,...

A Southwest Research Institute scientist is using big data to help the scientific community characterize exoplanets, particularly alien worlds orbiting nearby stars. Of particular interest are exoplanets that could harbo...

Fluid flows downhill--at least it does on Earth. Fluid movement becomes much more complicated in space, and that creates challenges for systems that rely on pumping fluids around for thermal control, engine propellants a...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The pioneering mathematician overcame barriers of racism and misogyny to help develop U.S. human spaceflight --

For the first time in 50 years, an astronaut-in-training is quitting NASA.

Using the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) model, NASA recently released a visualization that showed all the aerosols that existed in our atmosphere on a single day. The post Look at all the Ae...

Audacy, a Silicon Valley startup developing a satellite data-relay constellation, is forming a network of companies to build compatible components, resell communications capacity and refer customers. SpaceNews.com

Mattis: "We have worked with Congress and the White House to define the evolving space problem that we confront." SpaceNews.com

A startup company planning to develop orbital propellant depots to assist satellite servicing ventures has raised an initial round of funding to support a first launch as soon as next year. SpaceNews.com

Two plaques etched with nearly 3,000 pieces of children's artwork have been attached to Europe's new CHEOPS exoplanet satellite.

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Water recycling unit at Concordia research station in Antarctica

Understanding the origin and time evolution of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is an issue of scientific interest and practical importance because they are potentially hazardous to the Earth. However, when and how these NEAs...

Two plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children have been unveiled in a dedicated ceremony held today in Switzerland.

Striking atmospheric features in Jupiter's northern hemisphere are captured in this series of color-enhanced images from NASA's Juno spacecraft.

China's launch of a pair of Beidou navigation satellites late Friday saw the country set a new annual launch record as its space activities ramp up.

The U.S. military's spy-satellite network will get a serious makeover in the next few years, if all goes according to plan.

The six crewmembers on the International Space Station each have their own phone-booth-size sleeping cabin, but they all jammed into one for a fun photo op.

NASA is continuing to study using commercial crew test flights as space station crew rotation missions, but won't make a final decision regarding that until next summer. SpaceNews.com

Exos Aerospace performed what it called a "very successful" test launch of a reusable suborbital sounding rocket from New Mexico Aug. 25.