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Two big pieces of orbital debris -- a defunct Russian navigation satellite and a spent Chinese rocket body -- apparently whizzed safely past each other high over the South Atlantic Ocean on Thursday evening (Oct. 15).

Six galaxies were trapped in orbit around a supermassive black hole during the early history of the universe, new observations reveal.

Every year, a warming planet is shattering heat records.

AAC Clyde Space announced plans Oct. 15 to acquire SpaceQuest, a satellite technology developer based in Fairfax, Virginia, for $8.4 million, pending the approval of shareholders and the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investm...

'Space Crew' is a clever yet challenging addition to the lore of space fiction games, as you pit your wits against an enterprising alien species called the Phasmids.

Cosmonauts are making progress in the fight against the small air leak that has beleaguered the International Space Station for months, according to Russian reports.

Six International Space Station residents will spend a week working together in low-Earth orbit before splitting up on Oct. 21....

There are instances other than pandemics when it is necessary to work remotely. Spacecraft operators are forced to do most of their work remotely while their charges travel throughout the solar system. Sometimes those tr...

We can thank NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft for opening our eyes up to Pluto’s complexity. On July 14th, 2015, the spacecraft came within 12,500 km (7,800 mi) of the dwarf planet. During the flyby, New Horizons was...

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends toward the surface of Bennu on Oct. 20, it will be the first time that a U.S.-led mission attempts to pick up a sample of pristine material from an asteroid. Bennu is likely an ...

Red dwarfs are the coolest kind of star. As such, they potentially allow liquid water to exist on planets that are quite close to them. In the search for habitable worlds beyond the borders of our solar system, this is a...

Just like Earth, Mars undergoes seasonal changes due to its axial tilt. And while summer heat on Mars can't compare with Earth's, along with the Martian summer warmth comes an increase in small whirling storms known as d...

Our galaxy contains billions of exoplanets. Now game theory has narrowed the search for ones that might host intelligent life and be worth contacting to a single star in the constellation of Taurus.

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) published its sixth Data Release (DR6 v2) to astronomers worldwide on Sept. 30, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) ...

Approaching Venus from its day side, passing the planet, using its gravitational pull to slow down and continuing on its night side on course for Mercury: On Thursday 15 October 2020, at 05:58 CEST, ESA's BepiColombo spa...

This sequence of 64 images was captured by Monitoring Camera 2 onboard the Mercury Transfer Module from 40 minutes before until 15 minutes after closest approach of 10 720 km from Venus. The images were taken every 52 se...

Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built to uncover galaxies never before seen by humanity.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Week in images: 12-16 October 2020 Discover our week through the lens

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The spacecraft’s first attempt to gather material from the space rock’s surface could become the largest nonlunar sample return in history --

The FAA released Oct. 15 the final version of updated commercial launch and reentry regulations, although those in industry say the regulatory reform process is far from over. SpaceNews