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Imagine a planet where it rained iron. Sounds impossible. But on one distant exoplanet, which is tidally locked to its star, the nightside has to contend with a ferrous downpour. The planet is called WASP-76b and it’s...

Video: 00:00:00 New data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite reveal the decline of air pollution, specifically nitrogen dioxide emissions, over Italy. This reduction is particularly visible in northern Italy which ...

The first science experiments that will be hosted on the Gateway, the international research outpost orbiting the moon, have been selected by ESA and NASA. Europe's contribution will monitor radiation to gain a complete ...

Space research is an expensive business. Once a space-based instrument is proposed, researchers want to get as much value as possible from it. The proposed satellite quickly grows in instruments and capabilities. Expensi...

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GAO sustained Peraton's protest in June 2019. SMC conducted a new competition and in February 2020 again selected SAIC. SpaceNews.com

The facility will be able to manufacture motors up to 470 inches long and up to 100 inches in diameter. SpaceNews.com

It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an upcoming study says that the Vulcan heat on the planet closest to the su...

A revised plan for returning astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2024 will no longer rely on the use of a lunar Gateway, although NASA's human spaceflight head says the agency is still committed to eventually develo...

An international team of astronomers have found the first-ever example of a pulsar that emits energy from only one side - the tear-dropped HD 74423 The post A Star Has Been Found That Pulsates, But Only on One Side appea...

NASA's space station manager has made assurances that an earlier swap of the two Russian cosmonauts on the crew should pose no issues, but concerns surrounding coronavirus will likely alter the preflight quarantine.

"Broken Pieces," the eighth episode of "Star Trek: Picard" is a mixed affair, cram-packed with plot and serving very much as a set up to the season finale.

As the world scrambles to confront the disease caused by a novel coronavirus, Italy has been forced to take such dramatic measures that the country's emissions have changed, as seen from space.

Spiral structure is seen in a variety of natural objects, ranging from plants and animals to tropical cyclones and galaxies. Now researchers at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have developed a technique to ...

This column will appear in the March 16 issue of SpaceNews Magazine. The annual Satellite conference in Washington is one of the industry's biggest events of the year. Thousands come to the Washington Convention Center t...

"I'm naturally concerned. How do things look this morning?" It is 7:06 a.m. CDT on April 14, 1970. Ten hours earlier, almost to the minute, an explosion aboard Apollo 13 put the mission into peril.

If NASA astronauts land on the moon as planned in 2024, they'll have an advantage their Apollo predecessors lacked: insights gathered by tiny robotic spacecraft that visit the moon before them.

Space Symposium, one of the biggest space industry conferences in the world that brings thousands to Colorado Springs every year, has been postponed indefinitely over coronavirus concerns.

Satellite manufacturers expressed optimism about market demand, but also listed challenges they face amid market and technological changes. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Week in images: 9-13 March 2020 Discover our week through the lens

A team of researchers from Russia and Greece reports a way to determine the origins and nature of quasar light by its polarization. The new approach is analogous to the way cinema glasses produce a 3-D image by feeding e...