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While NASA seeks to eventually transition from the International Space Station to commercial stations in low Earth orbit, the agency is putting on hold a solicitation to support development of such a free-flying platform...

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....

On the afternoon of February 10, 2009, the operational communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the obsolete Cosmos 2251 communications satellite over Siberia at an altitude of roughly 800 kilometers. The collis...

Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, such as X-rays or the visible, depending on the phase in which the black hole is consuming its surrounding material....

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA infrared imagery shows wind shear continued to batter Tropical Storm Iselle in the Eastern Pacific Ocean for the second day.

NASA and Boeing announced an updated schedule of test flights of the company's CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle that would allow it to begin operational missions to the International Space Station at the end of ...

NASA has approved the final development stage of the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission to explore the Trojan asteroids in preparation for its October 2021 launch.

The Space and Missile Systems Center needs a digital workflow system for the development of classified early-warning and communications satellites. SpaceNews

The International Space Station hits 20 years of continuous human habitation this fall, and NASA aims to make the most of the years the orbiting lab has left.

A NASA citizen science project called Disk Detective enlists volunteers to study images of solar systems as they're forming.

The gas and dust cast off by a supernova explosion keeps moving at a high speed for centuries. The post Supernova Wreckage is Still Expanding at Extreme Speeds After 400 Years appeared first on Universe Today.

Brown dwarfs are smallish objects sitting somewhere between stars and planets, making them notoriously hard to find. But a recent citizen science project aimed at finding the elusive Planet 9 has instead revealed a treas...

A historic NASA spacecraft will soon leave the Smithsonian for the Sooner State.

The contract covers a satellite called Thuraya-4 NGS, and includes an option for a Thuraya-5 NGS satellite that, if exercised, would complete the replacement of Thuraya's existing two-satellite fleet. SpaceNews

The OGO-1 geophysics satellite's long space odyssey is nearly at an end.

Jupiter's big ocean-harboring moons may have a strong gravitational effect on each other, raising big tides in each others' subsurface seas, a new study suggests.

Week in images: 24-28 August 2020 Discover our week through the lens

One kilowatt is about what it takes to heat up some leftovers in a microwave--or to power the largest and most technically advanced telescope ever built. Thanks to its solar array, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

In the depths of Venus' hellish atmosphere, a layer of mysterious haze could be home to life, a new study finds.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) shared a spectacular 3D projection of the Delta IV Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral ahead of this week's satellite launch.

Step outside around 8:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday (Aug. 28-29) and in a single glance you'll be able to partake in a gathering of the moon and the two gas giants of the solar system.