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Back in 2016, researchers claimed Dragonfly 44 was a "failed" Milky Way -- a galaxy with a huge dark matter mass but almost no stars. Now, on closer examination, that claim has fallen apart.

Soon you can run your own space agency from your computer or console. "Mars Horizon" announced its release date will be Nov. 17, and you can preorder it now.

Microsoft has teamed with SpaceX and SES on the new venture.

Crews aboard the ISS are working to repair the leak, which posed no significant risk. Unfortunately, it shows that the ISS is getting on in years! The post The Oxygen Supply has Failed in the Russian Zvezda Module of the...

Lockheed CFO Ken Possenriede: "We now have a price point that will allow ULA to get its fair share of awards over SpaceX" SpaceNews

The ISS crew has found the source of the elusive leak using (wait for it!) tea leaves! The hole is now patched, but a permanent fix is still needed. The post The Crew of the ISS has Found the Source of the Station’s Ai...

We have found more than 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Life on distant worlds could find us in the same way. The post We use the transit method to find other planets. Which extraterrestrial civilizations could use t...

New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Io.

New satellite imagery of California reveals not just the extent of its wildfire damage, but the depth of the loss.

One of the greatest legacies of the International Space Station is the diversity it brought to the astronaut corps, former space shuttle commander Pam Melroy will discuss with a virtual audience Saturday (Oct. 24).

Chairman Adam Smith said Space Force leaders so far have not pushed back against Rep. Crenshaw's 'Starfleet' amendment SpaceNews

NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26.

An international team of astrophysicists under Dutch leadership has demonstrated with an improved model that colliding neutron stars can emit gamma rays. Old models did not predict this and faltered since the merging of ...

Three decades after Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away--resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph--two astronomers now offer another unique cosm...

If you're looking for more space in your life, look no farther: The stars have aligned to bring your four separate space events today (Oct. 21).

The spacecraft attempted to collect samples from the asteroid for eventual return to Earth --

Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to measure and correct the distortion of starlight caused by viewing through the Earth's atmosphere, which should make it easier to study the possibility of life ...

Witness the changing planet through the eye of Earth-orbiting satellites with 'Climate from Space,' a new interactive website developed by ESA.

If you want to see science fiction at work, visit a modern machine shop, where 3-D printers create materials in just about any shape you can imagine. NASA is exploring the technique--known as additive manufacturing when ...

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft arrived to the International Space Station just three hours after launch on 14 October, with Roscosmos astronauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on boar...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), astronomers have investigated a magnetized O-type star known as NGC 1624-2. Results of the study, presented in a paper published October 1...

GHGSat unveiled a free map Oct. 21 showing average weekly methane concentrations around the world at a resolution of approximately two kilometers per pixel. SpaceNews