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If you want the clearest view of the night sky, you'll have to pack a warm jacket.

When room and supplies are limited -- like during space travel -- you need to optimize for a different set of goals to meet the needs of the people you are trying to feed.

SpaceX successfully completed a static fire test with its SN5, which will be followed shortly by a hop test! The post SpaceX Just Completed a Static Fire of Starship Prototype SN5. Next Comes the Hop appeared first on Un...

NASA's Perseverance rover experienced some hiccups shortly after launch, but is back on track and making its seven-month journey to Mars. The post Perseverance Went Into Safe Mode Shortly After Launch, But it’s Fine ap...

Virgin Galactic has pushed the beginning of commercial flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle to no earlier than the first quarter of 2021 while announcing plans to sell additional stock to raise money. SpaceNews

Tournear says the Space Development Agency wants to create a market so the industry can plan investments. SpaceNews

New detailed observations with NSF's NOIRLab facilities reveal a young exoplanet, orbiting a young star in the Hyades cluster, that is unusually dense for its size and age. Weighing in at 25 Earth-masses, and slightly sm...

The Universe is about 10% smoother than we expect, and astronomers aren't entirely sure why. The post The Universe is the Same, Everywhere We Look. Even More than Cosmologists Predicted appeared first on Universe Today.

At the bottom of the ocean in the South Pacific Gyre, there’s a sediment layer that is among the most nutrient-starved environments on Earth. Because of conditions in that area, there’s almost no “marine snow”--t...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems announced an agreement Aug. 4 to design a prototype for the U.S. Space Force Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System. SpaceNews

The journal Nature Communications has published the discovery of a new type of star that is very rich in phosphorus, which could help to explain the origin of phosphorous in our galaxy. This achievement has been made by ...

Virgin Galactic passengers will have to wait until at least 2021 for the first flight opportunities.

Forbes has been Blackjack's deputy program manager since 2018. SpaceNews

Using the supersharp radio "vision" of the National Science Foundation's continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have discovered a Saturn-sized planet closely orbiting a small, cool star 35 light-year...

Synthetic aperture radar startup PredaSAR has signed a contract to launch a small satellite with SpaceX, and is in discussions to launch its entire first constellation with the company, PredaSAR co-founder Marc Bell, sai...

Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet.

Lasers on Earth are used to measure the position of space debris high above, providing crucial information on how to avoid in-space collisions. Until now, this technique has suffered from a fatal flaw.

Solar activity varies in 11-year cycles. As the activity cycle switches to a new one, the Sun is usually very calm for several years.

Amazon Web Services has slowed the rollout of its ground station network to accommodate customer feedback about the best locations to place its antennas. SpaceNews

NASA has established an office to coordinate rideshare launch opportunities for its growing number of smallsat science missions, taking advantage of excess capacity on launches of larger spacecraft. SpaceNews

In a peninsula far, far away, a laser shoots into the sky to study the Antarctic atmosphere at Concordia research station.

Last week marked the completion of a major milestone on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations for NASA's Lucy mission.