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China successfully launched a Beidou positioning, navigation and timing satellite Monday as the country nears completion of its answer to the GPS system. SpaceNews.com

On Feb. 6, 2020, weather stations recorded the hottest temperature on record for Antarctica....

Machines could fulfill desires and support humans during space travel.

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Lanzerotti, a member of NJIT's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR), was tapped for his 'significant contributions to our understanding of the space environment of the Van All...

(University of Birmingham) Astronomers working on 'first light' results from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipsing binary brown dwarf system.

(American Geophysical Union) Earth turned faster at the end of the time of the dinosaurs than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the current 365, according to a new study of fossil mollusk shells from ...

The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887, seen here as viewed by the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, lies over 60 million light-years away from us in the southern constellation of Crater (the Cup...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is getting closer, physically and temporally, to its primary goal. The spacecraft arrived at Bennu at the end of 2018, and for just over a year it’s been studying the asteroid, searching for a suita...

Billions of lightyears away, gigantic clouds of hydrogen gas produce a special kind of radiation, a type of ultraviolet light known as Lyman-alpha emissions. The enormous clouds emitting the light are Lyman-alpha blobs (...

Pearl Jam's new record, 'Gigaton,' moves listeners beyond Earthly bounds to reflect on our changing planet.

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine:

Executives from SpaceX and OneWeb say their companies are working intensely on user terminals so customers will be able to get internet connectivity from their respective low Earth orbit constellations. SpaceNews.com

The ESA's JUpiter Icy Moons Explore (JUICE), which will study Europa and Ganymede for evidence of life, just got its first instrument! The post Europe’s Mission to Jupiter’s Moons Just Got its First Instrument appear...

A planetary alignment provides a window to visit Uranus and Neptune—but time is tight --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Massive. Enormous. Huge. Gigantic. And whatever other words you find in the thesaurus all do the job when it comes to describing Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket. Especially its nosecone. Blue Origin recently gave us a l...

The moon and Earth may be more different than long thought, challenging existing models for how the moon formed, a new study finds.

The Cosmosphere space museum is expanding its SpaceWorks restoration and replication division to include a line of space artifact rentals, beginning with an Apollo 13 50th anniversary exhibit.

In their interiors, stars are structured in a layered, onion-like fashion. In those with solar-like temperatures, the core is followed by the radiation zone. There, the heat from within is led outwards by means of radiat...

A bright, red star that started dimming dramatically in 2019 isn't about to explode, as some scientists initially thought -- it's just really dusty, a new study shows.

Astronomers working on 'first light' results from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipsing binary brown dwarf system.

A star that pulsates on just one side has been discovered in the Milky Way about 1500 light years from Earth. It is the first of its kind to be found and scientists expect to find many more similar systems as technology ...