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SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit on a used rocket today (April 22) and you can watch it all live online.

After 30 years, Hubble is still providing us with breathtaking images - like this one of NGC 2273, a spiral galaxy that has arms within arms! The post Hubble Sees a Galaxy With Spiral Arms, Surrounded by Other Spiral Arm...

NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27, 2020 for an historic mission: the launch of the first astronauts on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, with the destination as the International Space Station (ISS). The crew, NASA a...

Humans have sent many missions, both manned and robotic, beyond our planet to explore our neighboring celestial bodies.

Towberman: "The choice to transfer into the Space Force will be a personal decision for each individual." SpaceNews.com

SpaceX launched its seventh batch of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket April 22, growing its internet constellation to 422 satellites in low Earth orbit. SpaceNews.com

Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neig...

Fifty years after an astronaut's photo of our home planet gave rise to the first celebration of Earth Day, NASA has turned to another medium for a planetary formation challenge. NASA and Lego announced a new "Build a Pla...

SpaceX successfully launched a new batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit today (April 22) and nailed a rocket landing at sea to cap the mission.

Scientists involved with several ongoing Mars missions are warning that a budget proposal that would end one mission and curtail operations of others could disrupt NASA's broader Mars exploration architecture. SpaceNews....

Farewell! Even though the BepiColombo mission launched for Mercury in 2018, it’s still hanging around the Earth – at least, briefly, as shown in this stunning image recently released by the European Space Agency. In ...

Iran has apparently lofted its first military satellite, ending a series of setbacks for the nation's space program.

Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA continued working on a variety of science hardware throughout the International Space Station today....

Swarm Technologies is working with in-space transportation startup Momentus to send its constellation of tiny internet-of-things satellites into different orbital planes. SpaceNews.com

New images from a NASA sounding rocket provide the highest-resolution views ever captured of the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, revealing fine strands of million-degree solar material....

The mission team performed a crucial weight-balancing test on the rover in preparation for this summer's history-making launch to the Red Planet....

On March 25, 2020, the Indian government placed its 1.3 billion citizens under a strict lockdown to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus....

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....

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Pamela Gay (Cosmoquest.org / @StarStryder ) Moiya McTier () Allen Versfeld ( / @uastronomer) This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Fred Watson to the WSH. Fred is ...

NASA nears the end of a winding path to commercial astronaut launches --

Human space exploration has shown us that we live on a beautiful swirl of green and blue and white -- even when life on Earth is riddled with sorrows, sickness and challenges knotted beyond measure.

Galaxies grow large by eating their smaller neighbours, new research reveals.