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A NASA spacecraft has really made a mess of things on the asteroid Bennu, and scientists are thrilled. OSIRIS-REx performed well in its sampling attempt.

The leaders of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission are confident that the spacecraft collected material from the surface of the asteroid Bennu during a touch-and-go (TAG) maneuver Oct. 20. SpaceNews

The Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center will test the use of digital engineering in three satellite programs. SpaceNews

Humanity can have a love/hate relationship with itself, but there’s no denying that we’re the pinnacle of evolution on Earth as things stand now. But it took an awfully long time for evolution to produce beings such ...

The Space Systems Command will bring together multiple agencies that currently handle space acquisitions. SpaceNews

As humanity ramps up its search for alien life, we should keep in mind that E.T. might be hunting for us as well.

No one has yet found the first stars.

It is departure day aboard the International Space Station for three Expedition 63 crew members....

This week we are excited (and honored) to welcome Dr. Jill Tarter to the Weekly Space Hangout. Best known for her work in the field of SETI, tonight Jill will be discussing the search for technosignatures. Dr. Jill Tarte...

Skywatchers will be treated to an eye-catching gathering in the south-southwest sky about an hour after sunset on Thursday (Oct. 22) -- a large triangle formed by the moon, Jupiter and Saturn.

Two more comets worth scouting the sky for into November 2020. The post Tales of Two Fall Comets: 88P Howell and M3 ATLAS appeared first on Universe Today.

SpaceX called off the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 new Starlink internet satellites Thursday (Oct. 22) due to mission assurance concerns.

NASA has tapped the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines to land a drill on the moon's south pole in 2022.

What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common?

Neutron stars are like the most efficient thermoses in the universe, filled with hot noodle soup. Here's how, over the course of millions of years, they cool down.

Video: 00:17:08 Understanding the laws of the universe is fundamental to flying missions in space. But one spacecraft under Paolo Ferri's care seemed to be particularly susceptible to Murphy's law - 'Anything that can go...

Preparations are well on track for the upcoming launch of SEOSAT-Ingenio - the Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission - scheduled to launch from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana next month.

NASA wants you to get excited about the moon -- or more specifically, about a mysterious new science result the agency plans to unveil on Monday (Oct. 26).

Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission's Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager's field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on as...

Do you feel like you've been locked in a small room for months on end, isolated from the people that you love? Welcome to Netflix's "Away" and the bubble of five scientists on the world's first manned mission to Mars.

Science fiction space movies can do a poor job of educating people about space. In the movies, hot-shot pilots direct their dueling space ships through space as if they're flying through an atmosphere. They bank and turn...

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