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Never seen Neptune? It's time you should, and this weekend offers a fine time to try, as the faintest planet in the solar system approaches the brightest in the dusk sky, for a splendid conjunction of the pair. This appr...

As Stratolaunch ramps up operations after being sold last year, it says it remains interested in providing launch services as well as supporting hypersonic vehicles. SpaceNews.com

There's a faint gamma-ray background in the universe, and scientists now think it could be caused by dark matter.

DirecTV is racing to move its Spaceway-1 satellite out of the geostationary arc after the 14-year-old satellite suffered a crippling battery malfunction that the company fears could cause it to explode. SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

Boeing has decided to no longer continue development of an experimental suborbital spaceplane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the latest setback for DARPA's long-running efforts in space access. SpaceN...

Betelgeuse keeps getting dimmer and everyone is wondering what exactly that means. The star will go supernova at the end of its life, but that’s not projected to happen for tens of thousands of years or so. So what’s...

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Allen Versfeld () Carolyn Collins Petersen (TheSpaceWriter.com / @spacewriter) Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck) This week we welcome Dr. Kenneth Carpenter to the Weekly...

NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, LLC, a KBRwyle business unit, of Greenbelt, Maryland, for a contract for intelligent systems research and development support services at the agency's Ames Research Cent...

While "Star Trek" fans worldwide are rejoicing at the return of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, the actor who plays him says his younger self would have been surprised to reprise the role.

How does NASA know it's time to end a mission? For the Spitzer Space Telescope, the agency can blame it on the spacecraft's juice.

Dutch launch broker Innovative Space Logistics and Firefly Aerospace signed a launch services agreement for launch opportunities on multiple Firefly Alpha missions starting this year. SpaceNews.com

Micrometeorites billions of years old provide a unique glimpse at our planet's atmospheric past.

Lisa Kewley has transformed our understanding of the early years of the Universe, the development of galaxies, and what happens when they collide.

This past Sunday (Jan. 19), SpaceX's Crew Dragon took off and flew brilliantly through a high-altitude test of its launch escape system.

The acting administrator of NOAA says the private sector is playing an increasingly important role in its work across the board, including space. SpaceNews.com

If you haven't signed up for the Space.com forums yet, now is a great time, as there's a ton of things to get involved in.

It was a lot more powerful than anyone believed.

New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought.

Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi may get his chance to direct a Star Wars film soon.

Stars come in many sizes and flavors, from those as small as Saturn to some still theoretical.

A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from within Enceladus, an ocean-harboring moon of Saturn, may be controlled by chemical reactions at its seaflo...