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According to multiple assessments, there's a good chance two dead satellites will crash in the skies above Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, creating a serious debris problem. The post There’s a 1 in 20 Chance That Two Dead Sa...

"Operation 'Make Space for Women' is ready for lift off." Astronaut Nicole Stott spoke about appearing in Olay's new space-themed Super Bowl LIV commercial.

NASA scientists using virtual reality technology are redefining our understanding about how our galaxy works....

The theory of general relativity is packed with strange predictions about how space and time are affected by massive bodies. Everything from gravitational waves to the lensing of light by dark matter. But one of the odde...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) recently took its first image, which happens to be the highest-resolution image of the surface of the Sun to date. The post This is the Highest Resolution Image Ever Taken of ...

Sideshow has unveiled a frighteningly life-like Baby Yoda figurine is available for pre-order - and, naturally, their website immediately crashed following the announcement.

Episode 2 of "Star Trek: Picard" on CBS All Access is worthy second installment and offers hope that the series will continue to improve, rather than degrade in quality.

Put “James Webb Telescope launch” into your search engine and you’ll be flooded with links, some reaching back to the ‘scope’s first proposed launch date in 2010. The delayed launch of the space telescope is a ...

The way the fabric of space and time swirls in a cosmic whirlpool around a dead star has confirmed yet another prediction from Einstein's theory of general relativity, a new study finds.

Scientists have detected relativistic frame dragging, a prediction of Einstein’s greatest theory, around a distant pair of exotic stars --

A concept called frame-dragging from Einstein's relativity gives scientists a new look into a whirling white dwarf.

Emerging companies in the space industry lack cybersecurity expertise and may be ill prepared to prevent or respond to attacks. SpaceNews.com

The Expedition 61 crew's schedule was packed today as they researched space biology and packed a pair of spaceships for departure....

Objects entering our solar system are upending some long-held astronomical assumptions --

A prototype of SpaceX's Starship Mars-colonization spacecraft blew its lid in a crucial pressure test late Tuesday night (Jan. 28).

Infrared light opens up new vistas to astronomers, revealing previously invisible features of planets and galaxies.

NASA's authorization bill will proceed further through the House of Representatives without, so far, any amendments addressing major concerns raised about its effect on lunar exploration.

The first European device to land on the Moon this decade will be a drill and sample analysis package, and the teams behind it are one step closer to flight as part of Russia's Luna-27 mission.

An international team of astronomers has studied variable broadband emission of the gamma-ray blazar Markarian 501 during a period of its high X-ray activity. The research, published January 21 on the arXiv preprint serv...

It appears we have missed another close call between two satellites--but how close did we really come to a catastrophic event in space?

NASA will pause today (Jan. 30) to reflect on the lives lost in the pursuit of space exploration in the agency's annual "Day of Remembrance," a time when the agency recalls three of its darkest moments in history.

Our understanding of space weather, its origin on the sun, and its progression and threat to Earth, comes with critical gaps--gaps that the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter hopes to help fill after its upcoming laun...