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NASA plans to complete the Green Run test campaign for the Space Launch System core stage with a hotfire test scheduled for mid-January. SpaceNews

NASA is targeting the final test in the Green Run series, the hot fire, for as early as Jan.17....

Virgin Orbit has rescheduled its second orbital launch attempt for Jan. 10 as another small launch vehicle company, Rocket Lab, announces plans for its first launch of 2021. SpaceNews

The massive galaxy cluster Abell 2261 should have a supermassive black hole in its center. But it doesn’t. Astronomers have looked everywhere – even between the couch cushions. What’s going on? Giant black holes, a...

Since time immemorial, philosophers and scholars have contemplated the beginning of time and even tried to determine when all things began. It’s only been in the age of modern astronomy that we’ve come close to answe...

Multiple people saw a strange blue light whiz over Oahu, Hawaii.

Scientists seek guidance on exploring frozen caches at the lunar poles responsibly --

A Cygnus cargo ship left the International Space Station Wednesday (Jan. 5) on a new mission to test 5G tech and spark fires in orbit.

What a proposed wooden satellite could (and could not) accomplish. The post Japan to Launch ‘Wooden Satellite’ in 2023 appeared first on Universe Today.

A team of researchers from Potsdam University and Kazan Federal University has found evidence of a previously unknown kind of star in nebula IRAS 00500+6713. In their paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysi...

Using data from ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Swift spacecraft, astronomers have conducted a detailed temporal and spectral study of an eclipsing supergiant X-ray binary known as IGR J18027-2016. Results of this research p...

China's Yutu 2 rover just turned two years old, and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has kept a sharp eye on its movements during its mission on the moon.

New research proposes that the first black holes came from clumps of gravitinos, exotic, hypothetical particles that managed to survive the first chaotic years of the Big Bang.

This 2003 Chandra image of the supermassive black hole at our Galaxy's center, a.k.a. Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, was made from the longest X-ray exposure of that region to date....

The two crawler-transporters (CTs) and mobile launcher platforms (MLPs) that were used during the shuttle program are seen at the MSS park site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 4, 2021....

Chandra's 2003 image of M83 shows numerous point-like neutron star and black hole X-ray sources scattered throughout the disk of this spiral galaxy....

The seven-member Expedition 64 crew relaxed on New Year's Day and went into the first weekend of 2021 researching space biology....

The commander of U.S. Strategic Command Adm. Charles Richard said the Pentagon has to procure a new intercontinental ballistic missile and updating Cold War-era systems is not an acceptable option. SpaceNews