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Astrophysicists Jon Hakkila of the College of Charleston and Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological University have published research indicating that blasts that create gamma-ray bursts may actually exceed the sp...

Fomalhaut, a "royal" star associated with the autumn season, sits low in the southern part of the sky, all by itself, on early autumn nights.

After years of study and failed proposals, NASA has decided to proceed with development of a space-based telescope to search for near-Earth asteroids. SpaceNews.com

NASA is setting in motion the Orion spacecraft production line to support as many as 12 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024....

Messier 110 (NGC 205) is a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy. It’s a dwarf elliptical galaxy, a common type of galaxy often found in galaxy clusters and groups, and it contains about 10 billion stars. Like all dwarf el...

NASA is setting in motion the Orion spacecraft production line to support as many as 12 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024.

Earth will soon lose a key tool in the fight to spot potentially hazardous asteroids -- and NASA has decided to fund a custom-built replacement.

It looks like Elon Musk will have a pretty nice visual aid when he gives his highly anticipated Starship update this weekend.

Venus may have had a perfectly habitable environment for 2 to 3 billion years after the planet formed, suggesting life would have had ample time to emerge, according to a new study.

Gsatcom Space Technologies, a joint venture of Argentina's state-run technology company INVAP and Turkey's partly state-owned Turkish Aerospace Industries, formed last year with the goal of building and selling small GEO...

With the autumnal equinox of 2019, the fall season has officially landed in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes an amazing deal from Space.com's partner magazines "All About Space" and "How It Works."

Tech giants and billionaires hope a new, cheaper crop of internet-beaming satellites and balloons can get internet to those who don't have it.

In an early scene in "Ad Astra," the new space epic starring Brad Pitt, the camera pans by a small snow globe with an Apollo astronaut inside.

An Imperial-built instrument will study the sun's magnetic field aboard the Solar Orbiter spacecraft following its launch in early 2020.

Many of the best-loved galaxies in the cosmos are remarkably large, close, massive, bright, or beautiful, often with an unusual or intriguing structure or history. However, it takes all kinds to make a universe--as demon...

An international team of astronomers has detected a new transient event as part of the ATLAS survey. The newly discovered transient, designated ATLAS19dqr/SN 2019bkc, turns out to be an extraordinary rapidly evolving cal...

Today (Sept. 23) marks the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, and Google has made a charming doodle to celebrate the occasion.

The most recently discovered group of rocky bodies nearby Earth are termed co-orbital objects. These may have been an attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth through...

This morning (Sept. 23) at 3:49 a.m. EDT (0749 GMT) marked the official celestial beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.

Space Science Image of the Week: To accurately measure magnetic fields, Solar Orbiter underwent testing in a unique facility

NASA signed an agreement with its Australian counterpart Sept. 21 to cooperate on NASA's Artemis program as Australia seeks to further boost its space industry. SpaceNews.com

Using rockets to send all the equipment and supplies for building and maintaining long-term settlements on the moon would be hugely expensive.