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A distant world about 40 times more massive than Earth may be the remnant core of a giant planet, or a giant planet in the making whose growth stalled, a new study reports.

The ESA has entered into a lucrative collaboration to help NASA get its Martian rock samples back to Earth. The post This is How the ESA and NASA Will be Working Together to Bring Rocks Back From Mars appeared first on U...

Virgin Orbit completed a captive carry test flight of its LauncherOne system April 12, the final major milestone before the company performs its first orbital launch attempt. SpaceNews.com

At first glance, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks to be a simple spiral galaxy, with two pinwheeling arms emerging from a central bar of stars and material that cuts through the galactic ce...

Today - STP-H5 (Space Test Program) ICE (Innovative Coatings Experiment) photos: The crew took several still camera photos of the ICE strip from the Cupola and JEM Window locations....

Government and industry leaders have to bridge the gap between government and commercial space. SpaceNews.com

The predawn hours this week will sparkle as Jupiter, Saturn and Mars dance around the moon on consecutive mornings.

OneWeb is asking a bankruptcy court for permission to borrow between $75 million and $300 million the company says it needs to stay afloat while it attempts to sell its spectrum assets. SpaceNews.com

A close encounter with another star may have ripped the cigar-shaped interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua from its parent body, flinging it toward our solar system.

Comet breakups are a timely topic right now. The interstellar comet 2I/Borisov just broke into at least two pieces. And though that comet is speeding out of the Solar System, never to be seen again, most of them don’t ...

Fifty years after Apollo 13, a vintage documentary from the National Archives takes us back to one of the most iconic human spaceflight missions of all time.

Spaceflight, like every sector, is feeling effects from the spreading coronavirus pandemic, and that holds true in Russia as well, where manufacturing of its main rocket has halted, officials said.

Because many print subscribers are not at the office to receive their copy of SpaceNews, we are making it easy for everyone to download the PDF edition of the just-published April 13 issue. SpaceNews.com

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog.

If you love space and also tanks, you're in luck. "World of Tanks Blitz" wants to fly you to the moon this week.

It was not a scenario for which they had trained. Astronauts James Lovell and Fred Haise were prepared to carry out every aspect of the Apollo 13 mission -- including what to do if something went wrong. But an explosion ...

The mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua is probably a fragment of a larger body that was torn apart by gravitational forces during a close flyby of its native star, a new study suggests.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a new study reports.

A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than any yet recorded has been identified by an international team of astronomers, led by the University of Birmingham.

Since its discovery in 2017, an air of mystery has surrounded the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, an elongated, cigar-shaped body named 'Oumuamua (Hawaiian for "a messenger from afar arriving f...

NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, who has spent nine months living and working on the International Space Station, will join fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos for a ...