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Do you thrive in social isolation? NASA is looking for people to spend 8 months locked in a Russian lab for a new experiment.

A tiny sail made of the thinnest material known - one carbon-atom-thick graphene - has passed initial tests designed to show that it could be a viable material to make solar sails for spacecraft.

The 16th crew at Concordia research Station in Antarctica to spend a full winter at the facility, wave goodbye to the Sun as it descends below the horizon, not to return for four months....

Relativity Space has hired a longtime SpaceX executive to help the startup scale up production of its small launch vehicle. SpaceNews.com

NASA just released a series of principles designed to foster exploration and cooperation in lunar exploration, called the Artemis Accords. The post NASA Proposes the Artemis Accords. The New Rules for Lunar Exploration a...

Physicist Brian Keating talks about his book Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor. --

NASA's human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro has stepped down just a week ahead of a historic SpaceX crew launch for the U.S. space agency.

The US Space Force, in conjunction with the USAF and the ULA, just launched the X-37B spaceplane for the sixth time! The post Space Force Launches its Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane appeared first on Universe Today.

After sending its first astronaut to space last year, the United Arab Emirates is to launch a probe to Mars in July, state news agency WAM announced Tuesday.

By studying the chemical elements on Mars today--including carbon and oxygen--scientists can work backwards to piece together the history of a planet that once had the conditions necessary to support life.

Annie Glenn, widow of the late NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn -- the first American to orbit the Earth -- has passed away at the age of 100, NASA announced today.

Doug Loverro, the NASA official responsible for human spaceflight programs, left the agency May 18 after less than six months on the job. SpaceNews.com

Italian rocket builder Avio will keep a team of launch personnel in French Guiana from May through August in the hopes of completing three Vega launches this year, notwithstanding coronavirus-related slowdowns. SpaceNews...

The following is a statement on the passing of Annie Glenn, wife of former NASA astronaut Sen. John Glenn:

NASA’s TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has one main job: finding exoplanets. But it’s also helping astronomers study a strange type of star that has so far defied thorough explanation. Those stars are ...

A tiny sail made of the thinnest material known--one carbon-atom-thick graphene--has passed initial tests designed to show that it could be a viable material to make solar sails for spacecraft.

The universe is awash in islands of matter -- some 100 billion galaxies make up the basic building blocks of the cosmos.

If humans are to travel to distant destinations in space like the moon or Mars, they'll need ways to live for long periods of time. And one of the key challenges of that includes how to have safe food and water to eat an...

As Japan's second female astronaut to fly up in the Space Shuttle Discovery, Naoko Yamazaki didn't expect to spend a quarter of her time dusting, feeding mice and doing other menial jobs.

OneWeb is asking its bankruptcy court for permission to issue up to $8.8 million in worker retention and incentive payments to discourage its remaining employees from quitting before the company can sell its spectrum. Sp...

Private industries have helped drop the cost of launching rockets, satellites and other equipment into space to historic lows. That has boosted interest in developing space--both for mining raw materials such as silicon ...

On a cool Summer morning in 1908, a fireball appeared over Northern Siberia. Eyewitnesses described a column of blue light that moved across the sky, followed by a tremendous explosion. The explosion leveled trees across...