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Most everybody knows that the dinosaurs perished rapidly in a tumultuous extinction, caused by an asteroid strike about 66 million years ago. But it looks like another extinction prior to the appearance of the dinosaurs ...

The bathroom on the International Space System is getting a major upgrade with a new, high-tech, compact space toilet to be delivered next week.

Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, eventually creating the smooth, exponential fade in the brightness of many galaxy disks.

A cosmetics company is providing a new look for NASA with the launch of a first-of-its-kind, commercial use for the International Space Station. Estée Lauder is paying NASA to launch bottles of its nighttime skincare se...

NASA has delayed the launch of a mission to Saturn's moon Titan by a year, citing budget challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic. SpaceNews

In an expected move, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced a mission extension for their Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Hayabusa2 will be sent to rendezvous with another asteroid in a few years time. It’s ...

The first vacuum Raptor -- the in-space version of Starship's Raptor engine -- blazed up in a debut test at SpaceX's development facility in McGregor, Texas.

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which includes four secondary pa...

NASA has selected AECOM Technical Services Inc. of Orlando, Florida; Infrastructure Solution Service of Viera, Florida; and Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. of Titusville, Florida; to provide architecture-engineer service...

Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbor?

Gwynne Shotwell: "We are pleased that they see the benefits of the technology." SpaceNews

When astronauts have to go, NASA wants them to boldly go. A new space toilet is heading to the International Space Station, with official name "Universal Waste Management System” (UWMS). (If it's NASA, there has to be ...

Over the past decade, the shadow of a black hole in M87 has been wobbling, which tells us about how matter behaves near a black hole. The post The Shadow from M87’s Supermassive Black Hole has Been Observed Wobbling Ar...

The launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite - designed to measure the height of the ocean - is getting tantalisingly close. The satellite has now safely touched down at the Vandenberg Air Force Bas...

This year marks two decades since the first ESA doctor set foot in Antarctica, running research at one of the most extreme places on Earth in preparation to explore far beyond it.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati - a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas....

October is shaping up to be a busy traffic period as the International Space Station gears up for a space delivery, a crew exchange and a commercial crew mission....

A team of researchers from the U.S. and China has found the first evidence for a candidate planet in another galaxy. In their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, the team describes their work studying the possib...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby stars growing in salty cosmic soup. Each star is shrouded by a gaseous disk which includes molecules of sodium chl...

Week in images: 21-25 September 2020 Discover our week through the lens

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The British government, seeking a replacement for the Galileo satellite navigation system, said it will consider alternatives to an original plan to develop its own satellite constellation. SpaceNews