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Maxar Technologies warned customers that it may not be able to deliver spacecraft on time or on budget due to the coronavirus pandemic. SpaceNews.com

The first positive case of coronavirus at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida was confirmed today (March 23).

CSF President Eric Stallmer: "The large companies will be fine. I'm worried about their suppliers." SpaceNews.com

An image taken by the MROs HiRISE camera showcases the types of terrain around part of Mars' Valles Marineris canyon system. The post Another Incredible Picture of Mars, This Time From a Region Just Outside Valles Marine...

Say hello to Space Foam. The ESA has a science lab on the International Space Station called Columbus. Inside that lab is the Fluid Science Laboratory, dedicated to studying the behaviour of fluids in microgravity. Curre...

A mathematical model that visualizes echo chambers on Twitter shows how they coevolve with polarization on controversial topics.

As the U.S. scrambles to respond to the spreading COVID-19 pandemic, NASA supercomputers are joining the effort to look for potential treatment and vaccine candidates.

If three or more objects move around each other, history cannot be reversed. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers based on computer simulations of three black holes orbiting each other. The rese...

Demand is growing for satellite imagery to gauge the economic impact of the new coronavirus and for remote monitoring of facilities and infrastructure. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation Project, will help improv...

A comet called Atlas is currently heading toward the sun, and it just might put on a really good show in a couple of months. Discovered last December by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert system in Hawaii (thus t...

The launch of a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket carrying a Chinese new-generation spacecraft is going ahead despite the coronavirus outbreak. SpaceNews.com

To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway across all missions, projects, and progr...

Rosario Dawson has been cast as a live-action version of longrunning "Star Wars" animated character Ahsoka Tano for season two of "The Mandalorian" on the streaming service Disney Plus.

A study by a space propulsion company concludes that a human return to the moon by 2024 will require minimizing the launches needed for the lunar lander and also using storable, rather than cryogenic, propellants. SpaceN...

Astronomers have probed the Perseus galaxy cluster in search of an as-yet undetected particle that would help support string theory.

What could a massive new telescope in Hawaii teach astronomers about the universe -- and why are some native Hawaiians fiercely opposed to the project?

(Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) They are billions of times larger than our Sun: how is it possible that supermassive black holes were already present when the Universe was 'just' 800 million years old...

(University of California - Irvine) East Antarctica's Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles, in the past 22 years, and researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Model developed by Brazilian researchers shows chaotic phase that placed objects in current orbits beginning within first 100 million years after formation of giant...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called th...

Adapted from a Twitter Thread by astronaut Anne McClain: One thing astronauts have to be good at: living in confined spaces for long periods of time. Here are some tips for all who find yourself in a similar scenario....