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The all-female astronaut walk is back on. Back on March 26th, 2019, NASA was forced to cancel the first all-female spacewalk because they didn’t have the right spacesuits available on the ISS. There was a short-lived s...

An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, which includes Alex Lobel, astronomer at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has determined in detail how the temperature of four yellow hypergiants increases ...

"We really need to be fully online as a lot of these large constellations hit their peak stride. We are right on schedule with that." SpaceNews.com

A new study on the volcanic highlands of Venus casts doubt on whether or not the planet ever had oceans. The post Lava Flows on Venus Suggest That the Planet Was Never Warm and Wet appeared first on Universe Today.

The Moon has abundant oxygen and minerals, things that are indispensable to any space-faring civilization. The problem is they’re locked up together in the regolith. Separating the two will provide a wealth of critical...

The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no one is sure exactly when or how that ice got there. A new study publishe...

A U.S.-European satellite that completed its mission earlier this month has been decommissioned but will remain in orbit for as long as 1,000 years, far beyond existing orbital debris mitigation guidelines. SpaceNews.com

CSF and our member companies strongly support regulations that protect the lives and property of the uninvolved public. SpaceNews.com

Companies supplying Earth observation data should speed up satellite tasking for customers whose demands are time sensitive, according to a panel of Earth observation experts at the Satellite Innovation 2019 conference. ...

An Antares rocket originally scheduled to launch on October 21 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will now launch after November 2.

Construction on a low-cost vertical spaceport in the north of Scotland may commence within a year, pending the approval of a planning application by a local authority.

The Labeled Release experiment on the Viking mission reported positive results, although most have dismissed them as inorganic chemical reactions --

Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the predictions of cosmology.

Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out of the galactic disk, but that gas falls back onto the galaxy to form new generations of stars. In an ambitious effort to conduct a full...

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano is preparing to step out into space for his first spacewalk of the Beyond mission.

Mars may seem to be an alien world, but many of its features look eerily familiar--such as this ancient, dried-up river system that stretches out for nearly 700 kilometres across the surface, making it one of the longest...

Numerical simulations by a group of astronomers, led by Mario Flock from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have shown that young planetary systems are naturally "baby-proof": Physical mechanisms combine to keep you...

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Using MeeKAT telescope, astronomers have studied a black hole candidate X-ray binary system known as H1743'322 during an outburst that took place last year. Results of the study, presented in a paper published October 1 ...

The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our sun is surrounded by millions of stars whipping around it at breakneck speeds. This extreme environment is bathed in inten...

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The head of the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial space office says he expects to have updated commercial launch and reentry regulations completed by next fall, but hasn't decided if there will be another draf...