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Sometimes a flash in the night is actually an asteroid slamming into the moon.

An instrument on NASA's InSight Mars lander that has struggled for more than a year to make its way into the Martian surface is now making steady, but slow progress with the help of the lander's robotic arm. SpaceNews.co...

During these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 lockdown, trying to work poses huge challenges for us all. For those that can, remote working is now pretty much the norm, but this is obviously not possible for everybody...

While the Sun can be active, it is often quite a calm star. We now know it is unusually calm when compared to other stars. The post The Sun is less active magnetically than other stars appeared first on Universe Today.

We’re waiting patiently for telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope to see first light, and one of the reasons is its ability to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. The idea is to look for biosignatures: things...

The U.S. Space Force faces the parody treatment in a brand new show aptly named "Space Force."

Cyrus Capital Partners, a $4 billion investment advisory firm with offices in New York and London, said Intelsat appears to be headed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing after it skipped a $125 million interest payment du...

NASA has selected 139 proposals for follow-on funding though the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

The most recent data from the Small Business Administration reveals that NASA provides $2.8 billion per year directly to small businesses, with another $3 billion subcontracted through larger companies. SpaceNews.com

A study of female astronauts has assessed the risk of blood clots associated with spaceflight.

After nearly two months of confinement, it is not only school students who are progressively returning to class. ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer also returned to training at ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC), starting ...

Image: 360 degree ISS Experience camera on the Space Station

On April 27, something caught the eyes of astronomers poring through data gathered by the Pan-STARRS Observatory in Hawaii: a previously unknown space rock, and one that was very, very close to Earth.

Actor Tom Cruise, Elon Musk's SpaceX and NASA are in the early stages of developing a feature-length action adventure film set and shot in outer space.

The surprise detection of a radio burst from a neutron star in our galaxy might reveal the origin of a bigger cosmological phenomenon --

China launched a new space capsule into orbit Tuesday (May 5) on the debut test flight of a Long March 5B rocket that will carry the country's planned space station.

Using AstroSat satellite, Indian astronomers have detected strong X-ray pulsations from an X-ray binary pulsar known as 3A 0726-260. The discovery, presented in a paper published April 26 on the arXiv pre-print repositor...

Shirley Dyke doesn't see the moon as a crater-covered sphere. She expects lunar dwellings to begin emerging in a decade, helping reach out to further space habitation.

"Spaceship Earth," a new documentary set to premiere May 8, reveals the incredible true story of life in quarantine inside the experimental habitat Biosphere 2.

An unusually strong polar vortex kept an ozone hole open over the North Pole for nearly a month -- now, it's finally shut again.

Right now, key measurements of the universe's expansion are contradicting each other. A lost form of dark matter could help them agree.

String theory is such a tempting, beautiful idea -- but after 60 years, it hasn't produced a final theory or predictions to test against experiment in the real universe. Should we keep hanging onto it?