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When Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo takes to the skies above New Mexico later this month, it will do so without the crowds and publicity once expected for the historic flight. SpaceNews

NASA has made awards to four companies worth exactly $25,001 to obtain lunar samples, part of an effort by the agency to establish a precedent for ownership and use of space resources. SpaceNews

As the Biden administration looks to rejoin international initiatives and reemphasize major global initiatives, it is critical that the incoming administration recognizes and recommits to the role that space technology p...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 10, to discuss the next test in the Green Run testing series for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's core stage that will fly on the agency's Artemis...

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is about to deliver a precious sample of asteroid dust to Earth late Friday, Dec. 4 (EST), and you can watch the event live.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

For centuries, almanacs have served as valuable scientific documents that helped track heavenly bodies, the tides, planting seasons and more. But how good are they at predicting the weather?

For a quarter of a century, the ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has been essential in helping scientists understand the heart of our Solar System, the Sun. The SOHO mission launched 25 years ago this w...

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Monday, Dec. 7, to discuss the release of a report defining the agency's science priorities for the Artemis III mission, which will launch the first woman and next man...

What is your idea of an asteroid? Many people think of them as potato-shaped, inert and perhaps rather dull, pock-marked objects--far away in deep space. But over the last ten years, two Japanese space missions - Hayabus...

Commander Musilova reports about how the Selene II crew employed humor and resourcefulness to preserve their sanity during a simulated Moon mission at the HI-SEAS habitat.

Video's views of launch shows flames spewing from multiple angles during ride to orbit

A misunderstood piece of space junk whizzed by Earth Tuesday (Dec. 1), but don't worry, it's just part of an old moon mission's rocket.

One way to look for a message in the cosmic microwave background is to convert thermal fluctuations into a binary string. So what does it say? The post An Astronomer Checked to see if There's a Secret Message in the Cosm...

If intelligent aliens visit the Earth, it would be one of the most profound events in human history.

China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft are preparing for a first-ever robotic rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit, a major hurdle to delivering lunar samples to Earth. SpaceNews

"Star Trek: Discovery" offers a better episode with "The Sanctuary" but it might have benefitted from not following on from last week's emotion overload.

2020 closes out with the final eclipse of the decade, as totality crosses the southern tip of South America on December 14th. The post Our Guide to This Month’s Total Solar Eclipse Over South America appeared first on ...

The world's largest solar observatory, the U.S. National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, just released its first image of a sunspot. Although the telescope is still in the final phases of completio...

The commercial market is now driving almost all innovation in space technology. The government can pivot its practices to more quickly adopt the best from the market. SpaceNews

The stars are constantly moving across the sky. Known as proper motion, this motion is imperceptible to the unaided eye but is being measured with increasing precision by Gaia. This animation shows the proper motions of ...

Blue Origin has achieved a new milestone in the development of the engine that will power the lunar lander it seeks to provide for NASA's Artemis program. SpaceNews