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A white paper submitted to the 2023 - 2032 Decadal Survey recommends we create spacecraft that could rendezvous and take samples from interstellar objects like 'Oumuamua The post We Have the Technology to Retrieve a Samp...

A unique satellite has joined the fleet of orbital eyes keeping watch over Hurricane Laura as it approaches the Gulf Coast.

Astronomers recently spotted perhaps the strangest white dwarf yet: a dead star the spins twice a second, sucking down material from a nearby companion as it goes.

Despite a weather-related pause in testing work, NASA still hopes to complete the Green Run test of the Space Launch System core stage in October, keeping its first launch on track for late next year. SpaceNews

Former NASA astronaut Gerald "Jerry" Carr, who led the record-setting, final mission to the first U.S. space station, Skylab, has died at 88.

A new study by a team of theoretical astrophysicists shows that stable wormholes could exist, but don't expect them to be a practical means of space travel. The post One Theory Beyond the Standard Model Could Allow Wormh...

A new report offers ways both astronomers and satellite developers can reduce the effect megaconstellations have on ground-based astronomy, but warned that no combination of measures can entirely eliminate the problem, S...

Three Hungarian companies are forming a joint venture to launch the country's first geostationary communications satellite in 2024. SpaceNews

Spacewalks were indispensable for assembling the International Space Station. Today, they remain a crucial component for the space station's continued maintenance.

The 45th Space Wing that oversees the space launch ranges in Florida will no longer be a wing, it will be a space delta. SpaceNews

The new image shows the comet emerged intact from its perilous passage through the inner solar system --

Figuring out the ancient climate on Mars has been tricky. While evidence gathered from orbit and on the surface seems to indicate there must have been a lot more water on Mars early in its history, questions remain on ho...

When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart, producing a bright flare of radiation as material from the star falls into the black hole. Astronomers study the light from these "ti...

Strange New Worlds Imagine if a star could tell you it had planets. That would be really helpful because finding planets orbiting distant stars - exoplanets - is hard. We found Neptune, the most distant planet in our own...

Morpheus Space attracted a high-profile group of investors for its first venture capital round. SpaceNews

Today's briefing: U.S. Space Force trying to stay lean, 2021 Space Pitch Day planned for spring, SPACECOM not moving for six to eight years. SpaceNews

Using the AstroSat spacecraft, Indian astronomers have identified thermonuclear X-ray bursts on the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Cygnus X-2. The finding, reported in a paper published August 17 on the arXiv preprint serv...

In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team persevered. Working together across five time zones, they successfully designed a hybrid rocket engine that uses paraffin a...

With good optics that offer views of solar system and bright deep-sky targets, the Celestron Cosmos 90 GT is easy to set up and operate, with only a few minor niggles

The nebula known as W51 is one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. First identified in 1958 by radio telescopes, it makes a rich cosmic tapestry in this image from NASA's recently retired Spi...

Four missions are scheduled to launch from Thursday to Sunday (Aug. 27 to Aug. 30), three of them from Florida's Space Coast.

Huge constellations of internet satellites could fundamentally change how astronomers study the night sky and how the rest of us experience it, a new report finds.