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NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, one of the agency's highest priorities during the coronavirus pandemic, remains on schedule for a launch in mid-July, officials said April 15. SpaceNews.com

The Lyrid meteor shower has been observed for more than 2,700 years.

A distant galaxy has sprouted filaments hundreds of thousands of light-years long—and no one knows why --

Scientists analyzing archival data gathered by NASA's defunct Kepler spacecraft just found a hidden gem: an Earth-size world that may be capable of supporting life as we know it.

Countries have enacted strong measures to curtail the coronavirus pandemic's spread, and the effects on emissions remain visible from space.

‘Oumuamua caused quite a stir when it visited our Solar System in 2017. It didn’t stay long, however, and when it was spotted with the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii on October 19th, it was already leaving. But its a...

A new study led by Caltech researchers show that light can be reflected off of a black hole's disk by its powerful gravity. The post Light Behaves Really Strangely Around a Black Hole appeared first on Universe Today.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is poised to approve a spectrum application from Ligado Networks that would allow the company to deploy a wireless communications service that the Pentagon says will drown out G...

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will return three crewmembers back to Earth from the International Space Station early Friday (April 17). Here's how to watch it live.

NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos are preparing to depart the International Space Station Thursday evening in their Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft and return...

Russia just fired an anti-satellite missile in a test of technology that the U.S. Space Force considers a threat to American orbital assets.

What a tragic irony if continued access to space is lost as a consequence of lower launch and spacecraft costs. The U.S. is the global space leader and has more to lose than any other nation from diminished access. That'...

After the explosion and the course correction that brought them back to Earth, the Apollo 13 astronauts still had a problem. Missing moon rocks. The solution, 50 years ago, was... souvenirs.

With an outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, the Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service has been activated and the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission has ...

Video: 00:00:33 A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during its first - and only - flyby of Earth on 10 April 2020, a manoeuvre needed to adjust its trajectory en...

Almost visible to the naked eye in the Draco constellation, the star HD 158259 has been observed for the last seven years by astronomers using the SOPHIE spectrograph. This instrument, installed at the Haute-Provence Obs...

CHEOPS has reached its next milestone: Following extensive tests in Earth's orbit, some of which the mission team was forced to carry out from home due to the coronavirus crisis, the space telescope has been declared rea...

Astronomers have performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of young stellar complexes in the giant spiral galaxy UGC 11973. Results of this observational campaign provide important insights into the properties...

Where did life first form on Earth? Some scientists think it could have been around hydrothermal vents that may have existed at the bottom of the ocean 4.5 billion years ago. In a new paper in the journal Astrobiology, s...

After the successful completion of its "Checkpoint" rehearsal, NASA's first asteroid-sampling spacecraft is one step closer to touching down on asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed the first ...

Fifty years ago, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert forgot to do his taxes.

Einstein's theory of general relativity just passed a dramatic black-hole test with flying colors.