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A study led by Texas Tech University shows that supersoft X-ray emissions can come from accretion as well as nuclear fusion.

The two crewmembers on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station that was aborted two minutes after liftoff in October will get a second chance to go to the ISS next year, NASA announced Dec. 3. SpaceNews.com

Maxar Technologies plans to significantly reduce its capital expenditures after completing construction of its next-generation WorldView Legion constellation so that the company can focus on curbing its $3 billion debt l...

An Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, has delivered the GSAT-11 and Geo-Kompsat-2A satellites into their planned orbits.

When you go on a camping trip, when is it really tough? When are you really roughing it? It is really tough if there is no supply store and no facilities at the place you are going. If you have to bring everything with y...

The LIGO and Virgo The post New Gravitational Waves Detected From Four More Black Hole Mergers. Total Detections up to 11 Now appeared first on Universe Today.

With a new crew arriving at the International Space Station, astronauts will be relieved to know that they won't have to worry about a major aspect of their immune system being compromised. While researchers know a lot a...

When traveling in space, astronauts experience physiological changes normally associated with aging, such as bone loss, muscle deterioration and altered immune systems. When the astronauts return to Earth, the changes of...

A startup that recently hired an experienced Ukrainian engineer is taking a long-term view for development of a small launch vehicle, believing that performance will win out over time. SpaceNews.com

The four fresh signals from merging black holes hint at a forthcoming data deluge from the LIGO and Virgo observatories --

It’s that time again! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

Elementary school students from Florida will talk live this week with the first Cuban-American astronaut to live and work aboard the International Space Station.

ESA was named 'Government Agency of the Year' in the recent SpaceNews Awards for Excellence and Innovation. SpaceNews honours excellence and innovation among space professionals, companies, programmes and organisations a...

Turning your smartphone in a tool to identify celestial objects in real time is easy and a big help. The image shows a sky enthusiast searching for the planet Saturn, very close to the Lagoon Nebula, against the core of ...

We're all distracted by shiny things sometimes, and NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars is no different.

In December 1965, NASA's Gemini 7 and Gemini 6A missions accomplished the first in-orbit rendezvous of two crewed spacecraft.

Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - already serving users globally - has now provided a historic service to the physics community worldwide, enabling the most accurate measurement ever made of how shifts in gr...

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SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said.

Fast magnetoacoustic wave trains are a promising seismological probe of the sun's corona, revealing the magnetic connectivity and providing an estimation of the absolute value of the coronal magnetic field. Low-frequency...

From 400 km above planet Earth, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has a message for COP24