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Pompeo: "Iran's space program is neither peaceful nor entirely civilian." SpaceNews.com

For the first time, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late 2019.

Hubble Space Telescope's iconic images and scientific breakthroughs have redefined our view of the universe....

After spotting a curious pattern in scientific papers -- they described exoplanets as being cooler than expected -- Cornell astronomers have improved a mathematical model to accurately gauge the temperatures of planets f...

Welcome to the 660-661st Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. We have a fantastic roundup today so now...

Since the pandemic hit, Pentagon contracts have been a lifeline for companies in the space industry. SpaceNews.com

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is getting ready for its big moment. OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is at asteroid Bennu, preparing to collect a sample ...

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Time to catch up on some long overdue sci-fi, so here's our handy guide to what's on.

Todd Harrison: "If we want to be competitive we don't want to lose this vital part of the space industrial base." SpaceNews.com

President Donald Trump may be a fan of human spaceflight, but that doesn't necessarily mean he wants to visit the final frontier himself.

Spaceflight changes much about the human body, including how the heart functions and how cells that create heart tissue behave. Scientists studying these changes on the International Space Station continue to report impo...

President Donald Trump inspected new technology developed by NASA to help fight the coronavirus pandemic and its associated respiratory disease, COVID-19.

Video: 00:05:07 Take a break with ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Samantha Cristoforetti, Luca Parmitano and Thomas Pesquet as they discuss living and working in space. In this video, our astronauts talk about their expe...

For most of the 20th century, astronomers have scoured the skies for supernovae--the explosive deaths of massive stars--and their remnants in search of clues about the progenitor, the mechanisms that caused it to explode...

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The sparsely distributed hot gas found today between galaxies, the intergalactic medium (IGM), is ionized. The early universe started off hot, but then it rapidly expanded and cooled allowing its main constituent, hydrog...

Circling hundreds of miles above the surface of our big blue marble for 30 years, I’ve had a remarkable view of the universe. I am the Hubble Space Telescope, and I have a birthday wish for... --

A team of astronomers from Australia and Italy has investigated a nearby white dwarf designated 2MASS J050051.85-093054.9 (J0500'0930 for short). In their new study, they report that the object is the closest extremely l...

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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently developed and demonstrated the ability to stop and restart solid rocket motors many times -- something that has never been done before.