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Blue Origin opened a new headquarters in Washington State as the company aims to send private astronauts into suborbital space later this year.

NASA has given us a taste of what the WFIRST will be able to see when it takes to space, previewing what the power of 100 Hubbles will look like. The post This Simulation Shows what We’ll be Able to See with WFIRST app...

The universe is expanding. When we look in all directions, we see distant galaxies speeding away from us, their light redshifted due to cosmic expansion. This has been known since 1929 when Edwin Hubble calcuated the rel...

Dutch conglomerate Celestia Technologies Group hopes to provide more satellite gateway stations following its December acquisition of Antwerp Space's ground systems division in Belgium. SpaceNews.com

How close is the International Space Station to an endgame? Commercial providers recently discussed the possibility as they talked about capitalizing on a new commercial direction for the station.

The pressure is on for Blackjack to deliver on its stated goal: deploy 20 satellites by 2022 to demonstrate that LEO systems can be a more resilient and affordable alternative to the Defense Department's exquisite and co...

Earth is doomed--but not for 5 billion years. Our planet will be roasted as our sun expands and becomes a red giant, but the exoplanet WASP-12b, located 600 light-years away in the constellation Auriga, has less than a t...

The core stage of NASA's new megarocket, the massive Space Launch System (SLS), ready to leave its New Orleans home for an epic journey culminating in a space voyage.

Hosts: Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Veranika Klimovich ( @VeronikaSpace) Annie Wilson ( @cosmoquestx Tonight we are pleased to welcome Dr. Brian Weeden, Director of Prog...

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Satellites operated by San Francisco-based company Planet have captured remarkably sharp photos of Iraq's al-Asad airbase, one of the sites hit in last night's (Jan. 7) bombardment.

Astrophysicists are deep in the throes of a process they conduct every 10 years to set scientific priorities for the field; the results could determine which missions fly and which don't.

Astronomers are struggling to explain the repeated, milliseconds-long chirps from a mysterious source --

A newly discovered suburb of baby-booming stars, known as the Radcliffe Wave, may be the largest structure in the Milky Way.

Virgin Galactic's next passenger spaceship has reached a major construction milestone, the company said Wednesday.

Scientists have finally pinpointed the location of a long-hidden, 790,000-year-old impact crater, found under a lava field in southern Laos.

Spacecraft could fly to distant stars using sails with surfaces similar to those of CDs and DVDs to help them stay centered on laser beams, a new study finds.

Four astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station for three spacewalks in January to complete battery upgrades and finalize repairs to an invaluable cosmic ray detector.

Ready for the first lunar eclipse of the year? The first eclipse season of 2020 comes to an end Friday, with a penumbral lunar eclipse. This season overlaps with 2019, when it kicked off with the Boxing Day annular solar...

Astronomers have investigated a black hole transient known as GRS 1716'249 with NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). The new study provides crucial insights into properties of the source in its hard and...

This new detection—the second of its kind—raises new questions about the nature of these mysterious objects --