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Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics have NASA's trust, but not a lot of time, to meet a 2024 goal for landing on the moon. SpaceNews.com

Once again, physicists have confirmed one of Albert Einstein's core ideas about gravity and relativity -- this time with the help of a neutron star flashing across space.

A team of European researchers observed a pulsar with two orbiting white dwarfs to confirm Einstein's "most fortunate thought." The post Pulsars Confirm One of Einstein’s Best Ideas, That Freefall Really Feels Like You...

Xplore Inc. won a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contract for a design study of a commercial solar observatory at Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1. SpaceNews.com

Less than a year after sending its first-ever astronaut to space aboard a Russian capsule, the United Arab Emirates is combing through a second batch of applications from hopeful successors.

NASA will allow SpaceX to reuse Crew Dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 first stages for launching them as soon as next year. SpaceNews.com

A key U.S. senator who stymied Intelsat and SES's proposal last year to privately auction a swath of public airwaves to 5G wireless providers took aim Tuesday at the billions in incentives the satellite operators now sta...

NASA's next Mars rover will bear to the Red Planet a tribute to brave healthcare workers fighting a pandemic here on Earth.

The Perseverance rover, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, will pick up where Curiosity left off, searching for signs of past life, but with better technology.

When pulsars were first discovered in 1967, their rhythmic radio-wave pulsations were a mystery. Some thought their radio beams must be of extraterrestrial origin. We’ve learned a lot since then. We know that pulsars a...

Astranis, a startup specializing in small geostationary satellites, has completed thermal vacuum testing for a practice satellite. SpaceNews.com

Are dozens of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations lurking right in our home galaxy?

Gender equality in astronomy doesn't end with the male/female gender binary.

Tuesday's science aboard the International Space Station encompassed life science, fluids and flames to help humans on Earth and in space....

If you live in the northeast U.S. or Canada, mark Friday, June 19, on your calendar. That morning the moon will rise with the brilliant planet Venus hidden behind it.

DoD released the 2020 Defense Space Strategy aimed at countering China and Russia. SpaceNews.com

Mysterious pulses of radio waves from deep space can fire in regular patterns, a discovery that might help shed light on the cause of these puzzling outbursts, a new study finds.

Small launch vehicle startup Astra will make another attempt to reach orbit in July after failing to win a DARPA launch competition earlier this year. SpaceNews.com

In a recent article, space architect Anastasia Prosina explores the concept of space architecture and how it will play a major role in humanity's future. The post What Does it Mean to Be a Space Architect? appeared first...

Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of years ago, and objects that have been around for just as long. That's par...

Laboratory experiments performed at the Center for Astrochemical Studies (CAS) of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Munich, together with astronomical observations conducted by the Italian Na...

A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away.