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Blue Origin has rescheduled a test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for Jan. 21 as the company edges closer to flying people into space. SpaceNews.com

A new analysis suggests the last few hundred million years of life on Earth has seen above-average asteroid impact rates --

Set your timers for 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds -- scientists have finally figured out how long a day lasts on Saturn, cracking a lingering mystery about the ringed gas giant.

A U.S. spy satellite has been launched into orbit from California.

On the evening of Jan. 20, the moon will undergo a total eclipse, visible over all of the Americas.

The United States plans to launch a hush-hush spy satellite Saturday (Jan. 19), and you can watch the liftoff live.

The search for the universe's hidden particles continues

Less than a week after laying off 10 percent of its employees, SpaceX said Jan. 16 that it plans to shift work on at least prototypes of its next-generation launch system from Los Angeles to Texas.

Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital spaceflight system will fly for the 10th time on Monday (Jan. 21), if all goes according to plan.

In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of a extrasolar planet orbiting Barnard’s star, an M-type (red dwarf) that is just 6 light years away. Using the Radial Velocity method, the research team responsible for the...

A total lunar eclipse will grace the skies this Sunday, January 20th—and it may or may not be red. Christopher Intagliata reports. --

QuadSat, a Danish company focused on testing and calibrating satellite antennas with quadcopters drones, plans to recruit satellite engineers with 700,000 euros ($796,000) raised in a seed investment round announced Jan....