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NASA astronauts may use suborbital flights as training opportunities, while human exploration of the moon could open the door to more science.

Just prior to the isolation order, commercial launch provider Rocket Lab conducted a successful mid-air recovery of a test stage, paving the way for reusable rockets. The post Rocket Lab was Able to Catch Falling Inert R...

A nova is a dramatic episode in the life of a binary pair of stars. It’s an explosion of bright light that can last weeks or even months. And though they’re not exactly rare--there are about 10 each year in the Milky...

A Russian space official has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

The COVID-19 pandemic is prompting Spacebit to rethink some elements of its strategy for building and testing robotic vehicles like the miniature rover scheduled to reach the moon next year. SpaceNews.com

Lockheed Martin says it is starting to feel the effects of the coronavirus pandemic across all of its business units, including space, as its suppliers encounter difficulties. SpaceNews.com

The Lyrid meteor shower of 2020 will be at its best overnight, but NASA has already captured some "shooting stars" with cameras across the United States.

New results from an ambitious sky survey program, called ALPINE, reveal that rotating disk-shaped galaxies may have existed in large numbers earlier in the universe than previously thought.

Air pollution has plummeted over northern India during the country-wide lockdown, implemented to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Bacteria come in two basic forms: the kinds that use a lot of hydrogen, and the kinds that don’t. And recently researchers think they’ve found a new bacteria that appear to do both at the same time, allowing it to li...

Astrophysical observations have shown that Neptune-like water-rich exoplanets are common in our galaxy. These "water worlds" are believed to be covered with a thick layer of water, hundreds to thousands of miles deep, ab...

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor LeVar Burton is in talks to reprise his role as Geordi La Forge for season two of "Star Trek: Picard," reports suggest.

Europe's new exoplanet-spotting space telescope has observed its first alien worlds.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The three-member Expedition 63 crew is beginning its first full workweek and kicking off science aboard the International Space Station....

The United Arab Emirates sent its first astronaut to space for a week last fall; the country's next astronaut mission will last longer but remain much closer to home.

We are all too aware that COVID-19 is a serious threat to health, is putting huge pressure on healthcare systems and it could leave the global economy struggling for years to come. With lockdown measures in force across ...

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), planned for launch in the mid-2020s, will create enormous cosmic panoramas. Using them, astronomers will explore everything from our solar system to the edge of the o...

April 21 and 22 is the peak of a shower of meteors--or shooting stars--known as the Lyrids.

For many smaller space startups and entrepreneurial enterprises, COVID-19 is a potential deathblow. As in many other industries, the hard fact is that many space startups are simply going to go away in the next few month...

Image: NASA astronaut Jessica Meir rocking her Caves shirt aboard the International Space Station