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The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has virtually paralysed daily life as we know it. Even when the spread of this highly infectious disease has been stemmed, the world will face huge challenges getting back to normal. To ...

(University of Tokyo) Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have provided clues about how to find life on Mars. These bacteria were discovered living in tiny cracks inside volcanic roc...

The pause in launch operations is giving Rocket Lab time to focus on its satellite business. SpaceNews.com

A study by Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute provides models of how Earth looked like over time, which could help us find habitable exoplanets The post Five Snapshots of how the Earth Looked at Key Points in its History Cou...

Join us for a live discussion on OneWeb's Bankruptcy: Impacts and Implications for the Satellite Industry moderated by SpaceNews Staff Writer Caleb Henry on Tuesday, April 7 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT. SpaceNews.com

"Star Trek Online" wants you to help save Zefram Cochrane and First Contact Day in a special event from April 2 to April 23!

Using LRO data, the ESA recently created a map of water ice on the Moon, which will aid in future exploration and resource prospecting The post Mapping Out the Water on the Moon appeared first on Universe Today.

At about 50,000 times the mass of the sun, this intermediate-mass black hole skirts the line between shrimp and giant.

A mission dubbed BepiColombo is bound for Mercury, but in order to reach its destination, it needs to take the scenic route, beginning with a flyby of Earth later this month.

Virgin Orbit announced April 2 it has identified an airport in Japan as a potential site for launch operations, joining airports in the United States and Great Britain as hosts for the air-launch company. SpaceNews.com

A hospitable star that doesn’t kill you with deadly flares. A rocky planet with liquid water and an agreeable climate. Absence of apocalyptic asteroid storms. No pantheon of angry, vengeful, and capricious gods. These ...

NASA's famous worm logo, which was retired in 1992, is roaring back to help celebrate the return of orbital human spaceflight to American soil.

SpaceX's will fill its current Starship vehicle with liquid nitrogen, light its engines and send it to hop during a series of important tests this week.

While NASA has resumed some work on the James Webb Space Telescope, project officials say even that limited level of activity will soon come to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic. SpaceNews.com

Three NASA astronauts will participate in a live media teleconference at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, April 10.

Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity has survived one of its stiffest tests yet.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, native Hawaiians who oppose construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project on Maunakea in Hawaii have reduced their presence on the mountainside.

A U.S. cargo craft is being packed for its return to Earth next week while robotics controllers get ready to install a new European science platform on the International Space Station....

Professor Reimar Lüst, one of Europe's great space pioneers, passed away on 31 March 2020 aged 97. Prof. Lüst was ESA's third Director General, serving from 1984 until 1990, and was one of the greatest visionaries behi...

The sun has been awfully quiet lately, but that could change starting this month, scientists say.

Filled with more than 4,000 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo, a SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station Monday, April 6.

Simulating the test flight of a hypersonic glider, being developed through the international HEXAFLY-INT collaboration, involving partners across Europe, Russia, Australia and Brazil and supported by the European Commiss...