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SpaceX plans to launch another 60 of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (Sept. 3), and you can watch the action live.

The 2,400 Air Force space operators who are transferring to the Space Force are spread across 175 locations around the world. SpaceNews

NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket finished a full-scale flight support booster test Wednesday (Sept. 2) as the agency gets ready to fly astronauts to the moon one day.

Thanks to LIGO and Virgo detectors, scientists have finally heard the 7-billion-year-old 'bang' from the creation of an intermediate-mass black hole.

Newcomer satellite operator MonacoSat is close to ordering its second geostationary communications satellite, and could complete the process by year's end, its chief executive said Tuesday. SpaceNews

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The future of space station commercialization will require some serious support.

Seeing is believing -- but the science behind this trick is more than meets the eye.

To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a study published today in Science Advances led by Shuai Li, assistant rese...

What if impact craters, long seen as harbingers of death, turned out to be the cradle of life?

Black holes can expel a thousand times more matter than they capture. The mechanism that governs both ejection and capture is the accretion disk, a vast mass of gas and dust spiraling around the black hole at extremely h...

Made In Space Europe, a Redwire subsidiary, announced an agreement Sept. 1 with space transportation company Momentus to jointly develop a robotic spaceflight mission to launch in 2022. SpaceNews

An analytical breakthrough that could significantly improve our chances of finding extra-terrestrial life in our galaxy has been discovered by a team at The University of Manchester.

A new sound has joined the symphony of the universe as we hear it.

For all its vast emptiness, the universe is humming with activity in the form of gravitational waves. Produced by extreme astrophysical phenomena, these reverberations ripple forth and shake the fabric of space-time, lik...

Scientists observed what appears to be a bulked-up black hole tangling with a more ordinary one. The research team, which includes physicists from the University of Maryland, detected two black holes merging, but one of ...

The unexpected finding gives astronomers their first good look at previously missing “intermediate”-size black holes --

An alert pops up in your email: The latest spacecraft observations are ready. You now have 24 hours to scour 84 hours-worth of data, selecting the most promising split-second moments you can find. The data points you cho...

What looks like an engine made its way to space and back last November. While the hardware of the Perwaves experiment will not end up in your car, results from this research could lead to more efficient and carbon-free f...

NASA and the Department of Energy will seek proposals for industry later this year for the development of a compact nuclear power system that can support the agency's long-term lunar and Martian exploration plans. SpaceN...

All you need is some string.

A scientist predicts looming crises based on the growth of digital content