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For the northern hemisphere observers, November is fireball season. This month, keep an eye out for two sure-fire annual meteor showers, and--just maybe--a wild card outburst from the obscure Alpha Monocerotids worth wat...

Two astronauts are set to begin a series of spacewalks this week to repair an instrument outside the International Space Station that was never designed to be serviced in orbit. SpaceNews.com

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will "tag" asteroid Bennu at one of four potential sites next year. See close-up views of the four candidate sites here!

Scientists have long been puzzled by the existence of so-called "buckyballs"--complex carbon molecules with a soccer-ball-like structure--throughout interstellar space. Now, a team of researchers from the University of A...

Back in November 2018, NASA announced that the Mars 2020 rover would land in the Jezero Crater. Jezero Crater is a geologically diverse area, with an alluvial fan of sediment deposited by an incoming river. That sediment...

Mark Rigolle, CEO of LeoSat, told SpaceNews Nov. 13 that the company laid off all 13 employees -- himself included -- in August after its earlier investors decided not to fund the company any longer. SpaceNews.com

Disney's first live-action "Star Wars" TV show proves the franchise can work on the small screen.

Gravitational wave detectors are finding black hole mergers in the universe at the rate of one per week. If these mergers occur in empty space, researchers cannot see associated light that is needed to determine where th...

With only minutes until sunrise aboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Nick Hague rushed to shut off the lights in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM). Traveling 17,500 miles per hour, the space station...

Isotropic Systems has completed two-way communications tests of its electronically steered antenna using Avanti's Hylas-4 satellite. SpaceNews.com

The Force is definitely strong with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who recently played the "Star Wars" theme aboard the International Space Station.

In its ongoing quest to increase launch vehicle production, Rocket Lab has unveiled a new industrial robotic system designed to speed up manufacturing of its Electron rocket. SpaceNews.com

The former chairman of the House aviation subcommittee and adviser to United Launch Alliance argues that all commercial spaceflight companies should support, rather than disrupt, the FAA's ongoing effort to streamline ex...

The small body beyond Pluto visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now officially known as Arrokoth --

No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun replaced Earth at the ...

Is Earth the only habitable planet in the universe or are there more worlds somewhere out there that are capable of supporting life? And if there are, what might they look like? In a bid to answer these fundamental quest...

In June, NASA's Curiosity rover reported the highest burst of methane recorded yet, but neither ESA's Mars Express nor the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter recorded any signs of the illusive gas, despite flying over the same lo...

Quietly and steadily, fundamental science for better materials on Earth runs on the International Space Station. While European commander Luca Parmitano is busy preparing for a series of complex spacewalks that take seve...

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured the multiple bushfires burning across Australia's east coast. Around 150 fires are still burning in New South Wales and Queensland, with hot and dry conditions accompanie...

An international team of astronomers has used the Subaru Telescope to probe the stellar halo of the nearby Messier 81 (M81) galaxy. The observations resulted in one of the most detailed studies of a stellar halo conducte...

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China launches six remote sensing satellites into orbit with two launches inside three hours from sites in north China. SpaceNews.com