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The new military branch, which President Donald Trump officially established in December 2019, just published its first doctrine, a 41-page document called "Spacepower."

Astronomers might detect black holes falling into wormholes via ripples in space and time called gravitational waves, a new study finds.

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket for small satellites should be ready to launch for the first time this fall, company representatives said.

The Department of Defense is sticking with SpaceX and United Launch Alliance as its two primary launch services for U.S. national security missions.

TESS wrapped up its two-year primary mission on July 4, having discovered 66 confirmed alien planets and nearly 2,100 "candidates" that scientists still need to vet.

Advanced space physics and biotechnology research kicked off the week for the Expedition 63 trio aboard the International Space Station....

Nearly a third of commercial geostationary communications satellites in orbit are operating beyond their design lives, a far higher figure than previous years, according to a study. SpaceNews

A broken cable caused severe damage at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, causing a suspension of operations for one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes, officials said Tuesday.

Recent observations and theortetical work have brought us one step closer to resolving the mystery of what lies at the center of the supernova SN 1987A The post Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Neutron Star Remnant ...

There's a surprising phenomenon taking place in Mars' atmosphere: during the spring and fall seasons on the Red Planet, large areas of the sky pulse in ultraviolet light, exactly three times every night.   "The ultravio...

On July 4, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS has found 66 new ex...

Russia's working on a COVID-19 vaccine, and it's got a seriously space-y name: Sputnik V.

Image: Satellite images are being used to monitor the oil spill off the coast of Mauritius.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have performed observations of a cluster of galaxies known as SPT-CL J2032'5627. They identified two radio relics that could improve our knowle...

The Perseids are back! This week, you can catch the annual meteor shower, a favorite of many skywatchers, as it peaks thanks to four livestreams.

Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral...

New 2-D and 3-D computer modeling of impacts on the asteroid Psyche, the largest Main Belt asteroid, indicate it is probably metallic and porous in composition, something like a flying cosmic rubble pile. Knowing this wi...

Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth. They announced today, in collaboration...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft gave scientists extraordinary close-up views of the dwarf planet Ceres, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. By the time the mission ended in October 2018, the orbiter had...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high a...

(University of Surrey) Scientists have made a key discovery thanks to stardust found in meteorites, shedding light on the origin of crucial chemical elements.