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NASA Earth Science leaders are enthusiastic about the potential for principal investigators to take advantage of new low-cost launch options. SpaceNews.com

On Friday, Oct. 11, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture high-resolution images of a region known as Osprey. It is one of four site...

Many technologies that are essential for daily life--from communications to GPS navigation to weather forecasting--rely on the thousands of satellites that are orbiting Earth. When those satellites run out of gas and sto...

A study led by the Carnegie Institute of Science has determined why Enceladus' has its mysterious Tiger Stripes. The post Why Does Enceladus Have Stripes at its South Pole? appeared first on Universe Today.

The Milky Way galaxy has its own magnetic field. It’s extremely weak compared to Earth’s; thousands of times weaker, in fact. But astronomers want to know more about it because of what it can tell us about star forma...

Maxar Technologies completed a $291 million property sale in Palo Alto, California. SpaceNews.com

Meade Instruments, a company familiar to any backyard astronomer who’s drooled over their telescopes, has filed for bankruptcy. The company has fallen on hard times in recent years, as they’ve faced increasing compet...

Nearly a year and a half into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere. Following the release of the very first science from the mission, five researchers presented add...

Interstellar visitor 2I/Borisov just made its closest approach to the sun. Here are some shots astronomers took of its journey.

Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, just completed its sixth launch and landing of a single New Shepard rocket.

A NASA image showcases the beauty of the NGC 5468 galaxy, which has experienced 5 supernovae in the last 20 years (all of which we've witnessed). The post This Galaxy Has Been Home to 5 Supernovae in the Last 20 Years ap...

We’ve all heard this one: when you drink a glass of water, that water has already been through a bunch of other people’s digestive tracts. Maybe Attila the Hun’s or Vlad the Impaler’s; maybe even a Tyrannosaurus ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle made its first flight in more than seven months Dec. 11 as the company inches closer to flying people to the edge of space. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million years after the Big Bang. This galaxy, called MAMBO-9, is the most distant dusty ...

The cast and crew behind the popular futuristic space saga "The Expanse" visit a Blue Origin facility in a recent video published by Amazon Prime, the new home for the series.

Scientists have released remarkably detailed maps of this pockmarked seabed of Bikini Atoll, revealing two truly massive craters from atomic bomb tests.

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

Students from Texas will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station.

SAN FRANCISCO - The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released an updated plan for U.S. Earth observation Dec. 9 calling for improved coordination, greater engagement with the private sector and efforts...

Neutron stars have never been caught behaving this way before.

The story behind an oddball sky glow endearingly named "Steve" is revealed in a new documentary. Here's why the light show captivated aurora chasers.

Supermassive black holes are the largest black holes, with masses that can exceed a billion Suns. Just this spring, the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy was taken, an...