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SpaceX said March 24 that one of the final parachute tests for its Crew Dragon spacecraft went awry, a problem it blamed on the test setup and not a flaw with the parachutes themselves. SpaceNews.com

Amid natural disasters and a spreading pandemic, three Puerto Rican students found hope in a project to restore an abandoned observatory on their university's campus.

Thin metallic tethers for Coulomb drag devices that tow satellites and spacecraft can now be produced more easily than before. Scientists of the Finnish Meteorological Institute have developed a method to produce multi-w...

The global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic is so intense that it's visible from space.

Early risers this month have been treated to an unusual celestial "pas de trois," as the three brightest superior planets have been changing positions relative to each other in the dawn twilight.

The CHIME radio telescope array has detected nine new fast radio bursts on repeat, which are revealing things about this strange phenomenon The post Even More Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Discovered appeared first on Univ...

Despite humanity’s current struggle against the novel coronavirus, and despite it taking up most of our attention, other threats still exist. The very real threat of a possible asteroid strike on Earth in the future is...

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SASC is "committed to continuing congressional oversight and data collection necessary to drafting the NDAA." SpaceNews.com

SpaceX's next launch has been postponed by international travel restrictions imposed because of the growing coronavirus pandemic. This news comes as two workers at the company's headquarters tested positive for COVID-19,...

The fourth episode of "Cosmos: Possible Worlds" sees host Neil deGrasse Tyson looking to the past and honoring botanist Nikolai Ivanovic Vavilov, pioneer of modern plant breeding.

The bubble concept could explain one of the strangest mysteries plaguing astrophysics: Why can't we tell how fast the universe is expanding?

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Chinese astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft have investigated a luminous supernova remnant (SNR) known as W49B. Results of the new study, presented in a paper published March 16 on arXiv.org, shed more light on...

ESA Director Jan Woerner writes: "We have to accept that the spread of novel coronavirus is one of the negative consequences of globalization and the global mobility of people it brings with it. Of course, space alone ca...

SpaceX is looking to hire lots of folks to help ramp up production and testing of its ambitious Starship Mars-colonizing architecture over the coming months -- and the company recently issued a public recruiting pitch.

In six studies published March 16 in a special edition of The Astrophysical Journal supplemental series, astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to spy on 13 quasar outflows.

The European Space Agency announced March 24 it is suspending regular operations of four of its missions, including one recently launched spacecraft, to reduce staffing needs during the coronavirus pandemic. SpaceNews.co...

The coronavirus pandemic has forced Rocket Lab to postpone its next mission, which had been scheduled to launch on March 30.

It's possible that Mercury once held the ingredients for life.

Physicists have found a way the theory might limit the cosmic inflation that is thought to have expanded the early universe --

Image: Hunting out water on the Moon