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HELSINKI -- U.S. and Chinese officials are working towards meeting for a bilateral Civil Space Dialogue around March in the first such discussion since 2017. "The U.S. and China were not able to schedule a Civil Space Di...

A history-making all-female crew of analog astronauts have "returned to Earth," completing a two-week mission in a mock Mars habitat on the big island of Hawaii.

Astronauts launched by SpaceX in coming months will ride to their rockets in high fashion. Instead of using a retro-style astrovan, SpaceX crews will travel to the launch pad in Tesla sports cars.

NASA and the NOAA just announced that 2019 was the second hottest year on record. It barely edged out 2016, the previous warmest year. And both 2019 and 2016 are part of the global warming trend: the last five years have...

SpaceX nailed the in-flight abort test of its Crew Dragon capsule this weekend, putting them one step closer to sending astronauts to the ISS from US soil! The post SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule Nails In-Flight Abort Test! ...

Named "Birds of a Feather," the mission is scheduled to lift off Jan. 31 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. SpaceNews.com

Radar satellite operator Iceye released a product to detect dark vessels, ships at sea that are not identifying themselves with Automatic Identification System transponders. SpaceNews.com

Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space - and now, for the first time, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the reverberating echoes of this radiation to map the dynamic behaviour and surrou...

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A pair of spacewalking astronauts tackled one last round of battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday.

The Berkeley Supernova Ia Program (BSNIP) has released a dataset containing over 600 spectra of 242 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The new data release, available for astronomers worldwide, was presented in a paper publish...

BAE Systems officials called the acquisitions "unique opportunities" to grow its military radio and GPS businesses. SpaceNews.com

One of Australia's top telescopes will receive an A$2.6 million upgrade to help extend its three-decade record of improving our understanding of the universe.

ESA's technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust.

Image: The changing activity of our Sun as seen by ESA's Proba-2 satellite in 2019. The satellite is continuously monitoring the Sun - one image was selected to represent each day of the year in this montage of 365 Suns....

Thirty Meter Telescope controversy is forcing scientists to grapple with how their research affects Indigenous peoples --

An international research team with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) participating has detected a propagating heat wave near a massive protostar. It confirms the scenario that such objects grow in bursts. Th...

Alien life is out there, but our current theories seem to be steering us away from it, says this scientist.

Could the creatures piloting UFOs be us? A recent book argues that reports of aliens here on Earth may be describing our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study us in their own evolutionary past.

Two NASA astronauts are taking a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Jan. 15), and you can watch all the action live online.

SpaceX successfully tested its emergency abort system on an unmanned spacecraft moments after launch Sunday, according to a live broadcast of the event, the last major test before it plans to send NASA astronauts to the ...

(University of Rochester) New research from the University of Rochester provides evidence that the magnetic field that first formed around Earth was even stronger than scientists previously believed. The research will he...