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SpaceX will launch its next batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit tonight (June 3) after two weeks of weather delays and the company's historic first astronaut flight.

One of the most pressing questions in astronomy concerns black holes. We know that massive stars that explode as supernovae can leave stellar mass black holes as remnants. And astrophysicists understand that process. But...

CBO estimates that standing up a Space National Guard would cost about $100 million a year. SpaceNews.com

A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbors the Magellanic Clouds, after a 26-year slumber. This is the second-closest such object known to date, with a brightness greater than a mi...

Christopher Edwards, assistant professor in NAU's Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, just processed new images of the Martian moon Phobos that give scientists insight into the physical properties of the moon ...

The three NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station rang the NASDAQ opening bell this morning then joined the rest of the Expedition 63 crew for ongoing lab operations....

Data received so far from space industry suppliers shows the pandemic has caused schedule delays and strains on the supply chain. SpaceNews.com

NASA has opened a pilot Entrepreneurs Challenge to invite fresh ideas and new participants in supporting development of new instruments and technologies to advance the agency's science exploration goals.

Astronomers time traveled through archives of data to spot an object that made history in the 1980s and solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.

GAO in its annual assessment of DoD acquisition programs says Next-Gen OPIR "faces multiple challenges." SpaceNews.com

Hubble Space Telescope News:

Image: Intracluster light in galaxy cluster MACSJ0416

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A new study by Prof. Kipping of Columbia University indicates that extraterrestrial life should be statistically significant, even if intelligent life is rare. The post What are the Odds of Life Emerging on Another Plane...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a ghostly, almost perfectly circular, arc of ultraviolet emission centered on the handle of the Big Dipper and stretching 30 degrees across the Northern sky. If the arc were extende...

NASA's Curiosity rover has shown that Mars was habitable billions of years ago. And NASA is about to launch another rover, called Perseverance, to look for signs of Red Planet life.

Video: 01:00:00 Replay of a conversation between European experts on how space can help with post-millennials' education and social lives, recorded on 3 June 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has had a huge effect on school...

A new study finds evidence that the universe as a whole is rotating, and that could have big implications for cosmology. The post Study of 200,000 Galaxies Reveals the Entire Universe Might Have Been Spinning in One Dire...

NGC 3895 is a barred spiral galaxy in the Ursa Major constellation. It’s about 145 million light years away from our home, the Milky Way, and its diameter is about 45,000 light years. William Herschel discovered it way...

The interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, may represent an entirely new type of astrophysical object, two astronomers say --

You can't rush a superdense star as it gobbles up bites of a neighbor for nearly two weeks before shooting off a burst of X-rays thousands of times brighter than our sun.

NASA has assigned astronaut Kate Rubins to a six-month mission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 63/64 crew.