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Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released two new posters celebrating some truly terrifying exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Free to download, the entertaining posters recall vintage horror movie adve...

Scientists have spotted signs of water as the object, 2I/Borisov, streaks towards the Sun --

Researchers from the University of Manchester, with international colleagues, have carried out a survey of a nearby galaxy.

Fleet operator SES is adding cloud services to its data and broadcast businesses while acknowledging that broadcast revenue has been shrinking faster than data is growing. SpaceNews.com

Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter’s clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise up above the surrounding cloud tops. The two bright spots in the right center of this image are much higher than the su...

A "supermoon" rises above Portugal's historic Castle of Evoramonte in this dreamy night-sky photo.

Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Leidos and L3Harris will develop competing prototypes. SpaceNews.com

A crucial flight test of SpaceX's new Crew Dragon astronaut taxi could occur as early as next month, Elon Musk said.

Dark Energy is the mysterious force driving the expansion of the Universe. We don’t know what dark energy is, even though it makes up about 68% of the Universe. And the expansion is accelerating, which only adds to the...

He cleans... with extreme prejudice. And he also cleans the kitchen.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy will return to the International Space Station next April.

Northern California is dotted by fires so devastating that their plumes can be seen from space.

The most haunting thing about the universe is how empty it is --

The 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference began this week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The satellite industry and the cellular industry are both hoping to gain new spectrum SpaceNews.com

As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller planets should be more s...

The six-member Expedition 61 crew juggled spacesuit maintenance and human research activities aboard the International Space Station today. The orbital residents are also getting ready to send off and receive resupply sh...

The Air Force has invited 30 companies to "Space Pitch Day" in San Francisco SpaceNews.com

NASA has shared a trio of templates so you can carve your very own James Webb Space Telescope-themed pumpkin this Halloween.

This Halloween season, NASA wants to open your eyes to the glorious spookiness all around us in the Milky Way galaxy.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

Humanity should consider building an interstellar probe to see our neighborhood from an outside point of view, argued several scientists at a recent conference.

After the first cubesats at Mars dropped out of communications hours before the InSight landing on Nov. 26, 2018, the team moved into last-minute rescue mode.