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GHGSat, the Canadian firm preparing to launch a constellation of methane-monitoring satellites, announced Oct. 8 that the sensor on its Iris satellite launched in early September detects methane emissions five times as w...

As many as 1,000 enlisted personnel and 130 officers currently in Air Force cyber security jobs will be asked to join the U.S. Space Force. SpaceNews

Researchers from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have made observations of a new magnetar, called Swift J1818.0-1607, which challenges current knowledge about two types of extreme stars, known as magnetars and ...

The heart of the Milky Way can be a mysterious place. A gigantic black hole resides there, and it’s surrounded by a retinue of stars that astronomers call a Nuclear Star Cluster (NSC). The NSC is one of the densest pop...

Researchers have spent decades searching for the elusive particles; a final generation of detectors should leave them no place to hide --

(The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery) A team of gravitational-wave scientists led by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveal that wh...

Slingshot received a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research contract and an additional $1 million from ATX Venture Partners SpaceNews

Something pulled the outer layer of Cassiopeia A off before it detonated to form this gorgeous supernova. But what?

The spacesuit-clad mannequin Starman and his Tesla Roadster just drove by Mars for the first time.

NASA will broadcast key events, including an Artemis program update, of the 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC), which takes place virtually Monday, Oct. 12, through Wednesday, Oct. 14.

The makers of "Space Crew" hope you have the right stuff to try a free demo if the new spaceship management game, which launches Oct. 15.

A solid rocket booster designed for Europe's next-generation Ariane 6 and Vega C launch vehicles completed a third and final static fire test Oct 7. SpaceNews

This week we welcome back to the show Dr. David Warmflash. Since he was last with us, David has been named as Co-Principal Investigator and Medical Director for a new NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBRI) Phase ...

After touching down on the Red Planet Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will scour Jezero Crater to help us understand its geologic history and search for signs of past microbial life. But the six-wheele...

The United States' space policy threatens the safe and sustainable development of the final frontier, two researchers argue.

Because gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, they can be lensed just as light waves are. But observing this effect will be difficult. The post Gravitational-Wave Lensing is Possible, but it’s Going to be I...

Using radio telescopes observing distant stars, scientists have connected optical atomic clocks on different continents. The results were published in the scientific journal Nature Physics by an international collaborati...

NASA’s TESS planet-finding spacecraft completed its primary mission about 3 months ago. TESS’s (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) job was to search the brightest stars nearest to Earth for transiting exoplanets....

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission, launched on Sept. 8, 2016, is the first U.S. mission designed to retrieve a pristine sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for further study. The mission's target is Bennu, a ...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, along with other representatives from the agency and the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory, will participate in a virtual panel Wednesday, Oct. 14, to highlight how the I...

Van Halen guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter Edward Van Halen passed away at the age of 65 on Oct. 6, 2020.

Chinese has selected a third group of astronauts for the nation's coming space station, the China Manned Space Agency announced.