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(American Institute of Physics) The Heineman Foundation, AIP and AAS announce today the 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics is awarded to Christopher Kochanek, professor at Ohio State University, 'who has combine...

Latest launch includes “DarkSat” prototype to minimize reflection from fleets of broadband Internet satellites --

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved legislation to coordinate federal government space weather research, forecasting and operations. SpaceNews.com

NASA welcomed 11 new astronauts to its ranks Friday, increasing the number of those eligible for spaceflight assignments that will expand humanity's horizons in space for generations to come.

ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster--a never-before-seen behaviour that may be driven by turbulent merger events.

Landsat 9's two science instruments are now attached to the spacecraft, bringing the mission one step closer to launch. In late December, the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) w...

NASA's Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This "bonus" science exploration opportunity for the project ...

Simulations of a dwarf galaxy by RIKEN astrophysicists have revealed the various processes by which moderately heavy metals such as strontium are birthed. They have found that at least four kinds of stars are needed to e...

Walker replaces Keoki Jackson, who will become Lockheed Martin's chief engineer SpaceNews.com

New satellite images from NASA and the European Space Agency show the impacts of the deadly Australian wildfires on both people and wildlife.

Sharp-eyed satellites have spotted debris from the Ukrainian airliner that went down in Iran early Wednesday morning (Jan. 8).

NASA on Friday honored its latest class of graduating astronauts in a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America's return...

The pair of stars known as V Sagittae is on a spiraling collision course whose explosive end we'll see by the end of the century, astronomers think.

Hispasat Chief Executive Miguel Ángel Panduro said Amazonas Nexus will be "the most dynamic and advanced satellite in our fleet." SpaceNews.com

Technology entrepreneur Ben Lamm outlines three space opportunities for budding founders not interested in building hardware. SpaceNews.com

Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessment of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2019 during a media teleconfere...

Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black holes typically have masses of about ten times that of the Sun, in accordance with the theory ...

A new study based on high-quality radio observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) has investigated the origin of a very high-energy gamma-ray source known as VER J1907+062. Results of the study, publish...

The theory that dark matter could be made of primordial black holes a fraction of a millimeter in size has been ruled out by a team of researchers led by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Univers...

A team led by Dynetics that includes Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is among the bidders for a NASA program to develop landers that will carry astronauts to the surface of the moon. SpaceNews.com

The first full moon of the year rises today (Jan. 10) bringing with it the first lunar eclipse of 2020 and you can watch the event live online.

Astronomers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found that the star ancient Egyptians once used as their North Star is part of a binary pair of stars that eclipse one another.