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Following the explosion of an oxygen tank in Apollo 13's Service Module on April 13, 1970, approximately 56 hours into the mission, the situation was bleak. With the Command Module (CM) without any power, the Lunar Modul...

A team of space startups received an Air Force contract to develop a concept to collect and manage lunar intelligence. SpaceNews.com

Spire Global announced plans April 15 to work with VesselBot, a Greek technology company focused on the international maritime industry, to develop products based on Spire's automatic identification system data. SpaceNew...

Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective announced April 14 it will launch its first satellite with Rocket Lab after initially selecting Arianespace for that mission. SpaceNews.com

GeoOptics unveiled a data processing system April 14 to improve the accuracy of weather data from its CICERO radio occultation satellite constellation. CICERO stands Community Initiative for Cellular Earth Remote Observa...

As the COVID-19 disease continues to wreak its viral havoc on the human population of Earth, governments around the world have closed their schools, shut down non-essential businesses, and told their citizens to stay at ...

One new book transports readers back to the early days of Soviet spaceflight with an unbelievable collection of stunning, colorful and nostalgic images.

In some ways, brown dwarfs are nature’s stellar oddballs. A lot of stars exhibit strange behaviour at different times in their evolution. But brown dwarfs aren’t even certain that they’re stars at all. But that doe...

The Perseverance rover was recently integrated with its wheels and Mars Helicopter, as part of its final preparations before launch this summer. The post Wheels and Helicopter Attached to Perseverance Rover appeared firs...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $12.9 million contract to the Southwest Research Institute to design and build the Space Weather Follow-on (SWFO) Lagrange-1 Magnetometer. SpaceNews.com

The Coronavirus shutdown has given us an unprecedented opportunity to look at our civilization a little differently. We all have our own ground-level view of life during this pandemic, but our satellites are giving us an...

NASA’s high-flying SOFIA observatory has struggled to prove its scientific worth --

A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet coul...

NASA bills its Apollo 13 moon mission as a "successful failure," a tale of survival and victory. But what if NASA had failed?

A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet coul...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

International Dark-Sky Week runs from April 19 to 26, 2020. You can get involved by joining the Globe at Night project, which asks citizen scientists to measure the darkness of the sky near them.

When it comes to comets, the only thing that is certain is the orbit. Though the cosmos has yet to send us a really bright comet for 2020 to keep us occupied during the ongoing worldwide pandemic and lock down, it has se...

An international team of astronomers has identified a major outburst and X-ray pulsation from an X-ray binary system known as RX J0209.6'7427. The detection, detailed in a paper published April 6 on the arXiv pre-print s...

Looking for a quarantine reading list? This roundup of thought-provoking science books has it all: mystery, history, exploration and innovation.

Plumes from Jupiter's moon Europa could provide insights about the interior of the moon, but their deposits remain hidden.

This proposed mesh telescope would let us gaze out into the dark cosmos, unhindered by our planet's atmosphere and radio interferences.