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In an international emergency like the present one, you might expect the science of the stars to be the last thing on people's minds. The problems facing both individuals and governments are infinitely more pressing than...

Some neutrinos are so energetic we don't know how they are produced. But a clue lies in the heart of distant quasars. The post High Energy Neutrinos Are Coming From Supermassive Black Holes appeared first on Universe Tod...

NASA will ask countries that seek to cooperate on the agency's Artemis lunar exploration program to follow a series of principles that the agency says is intended to support a "safe, prosperous and peaceful" future in sp...

Six SkySat spacecraft operated by San Francisco-based company Planet will ride to orbit atop SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets this summer, if all goes according to plan.

Mars and the last-quarter moon will meet up in the early morning sky on Friday (May 15). If you're up at least an hour before sunrise, you can spot the pair huddled together just above the southeast horizon.

Air Force procurement chief Will Roper said hacking competitions help the military identify flaws in its systems before they are deployed. SpaceNews.com

Intelsat hopes it can eliminate around half of its $15 billion debt load through bankruptcy, a move that would free the company to invest in next generation satellite technologies, according to a company executive. Space...

The Space Force has an official flag.

If you're a student, you can become a part of spaceflight history.

The White House has updated the membership of an advisory group for the National Space Council, replacing four original members of the committee with five people, including a former member of Congress. SpaceNews.com

Modern humans--or Homo Sapiens--have only been around for about 250,000 years. That’s only the blink of an eye in cosmological terms. As it turns out, the star Betelgeuse may only be about the same age. A new study exp...

Bear with us for meteors.

NASA has long stressed that international collaboration will be key to its Artemis program of lunar exploration; today, the agency unveiled some principles that foreign partners will have to abide by.

We’re inching closer and closer to the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) launch date of March 30th, 2021, (or maybe July 2021.) We never thought we’d get this close, with only a year to go before we send this pow...

China's next-generation crewed spacecraft recently returned to Earth after a successful test flight. The Long March 5B rocket that sent it up did as well (parts of it, anyway!) The post China's New Crew Capsule Just Land...

Whether you're a starship captain or dungeon master, a new "Star Trek Online" and "Neverwinter" collaboration will let you join a mission to help those in need.

The U.S. Space Force is counting down to the planned launch of an X-37B space plane on a secret mission on Saturday (May 16), and a new video reveals just how it will reach orbit.

No matter how you spend your summer, you'll need a good book to keep you company.

Space.com is live and ready to take your questions about SpaceX's upcoming Demo-2 launch.

Quantum physicists predicted the Pauli exclusion principle should create spectacular crystals. Now they've found them for the first time.

The U.S. Space Force is counting down to the planned launch of an X-37B space plane on a secret mission on Saturday (May 16), and a new video reveals just how it will reach orbit.

Mergers between black holes and neutron stars in dense star clusters are quite unlike those that form in isolated regions where stars are few. Their associated features could be crucial to the study of gravitational wave...