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Despite warnings from NASA officials and the risks implied by the current pandemic, approximately 150,000 people gathered on Florida's space coast to watch the Crew Dragon launch.

Researchers from the Carl Sagan Institute have created a new model for assessing the habitability of exoplanets that orbit different types of stars The post What Are Some Clues to the Climates of Exoplanets? appeared fir...

Baldridge said that in addition to the 300 layoffs, Viasat furloughed some employees, froze salaries for a large number of workers, and brought hiring to a virtual standstill in an effort to curb costs. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are finding that planets have a tough time forming in the rough-and-tumble central region of the massive, crowded star cluster Westerlund 2. Located 20,000 light-years away...

Thanks to the success of the Kepler mission, we know that there are multitudes of exoplanets of a type called “Hot Jupiters.” These are gas giants that orbit so close to their stars that they reach extremely high tem...

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the agency's SpaceX Demo-2 test flight, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station.

European satellites are investigating the development of two distinct weak points within the South Atlantic Anomaly of Earth's magnetic field.

Using gravitational waves to approximate pi, physicists see no problem with Einstein's theory of general relativity.

A street artist whose portfolio includes multi-story-tall murals and designer toys has ventured into a new genre -- space art. As in artwork launched into outer space.

Using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope, astronomers have detected a bright, millisecond-duration radio burst from a galactic magnetar known as SGR 1935+2154. The discovery of suc...

What is the origin of the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu, and of their spinning-top shape? An international research team led by Patrick Michel, a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire Lagrange (CNRS/Observatoire de la Côte d'A...

On the eve of his historic launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA astronaut Bob Behnken got ready for the big day by launching a rocket of his own.

We spotted some weird and wacky details leading up to SpaceX's now-delayed Demo-2 test flight today (May 27).

If it weren't for the weather, SpaceX would have made history Wednesday (May 27). Now the company will have to wait another three days to try again -- if Mother Nature cooperates.

The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers from the University of Geneva (UN...

While the planet has been on lockdown the last two months, a new space telescope called CHEOPS opened its eyes, took its first pictures of the heavens and is now open for business.

China is preparing to carry out 11 missions in two years to construct a space station and will soon select a new batch of astronauts for the project. SpaceNews.com

Image: This false-colour image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 shows the extent of an ice jam on the Athabasca River in Canada - leading to the flooding of Fort McMurray.

ESA's largest antenna test facility remains operational despite the COVID-19 pandemic, performing pre-flight testing for the latest satellite in a constellation to serve the internet of things.

After Wednesday's scrub due to weather, NASA and SpaceX have targeted Saturday, May 30, for the next launch attempt for the Demo-2 mission....

Just as a literature buff might explore a novel for recurring themes, physicists and mathematicians search for repeating structures present throughout nature....

(ESA/Hubble Information Centre) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct a three-year study of the crowded, massive and young star cluster Westerlund 2. The research found that the material encircling star...