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A NASA astronaut will fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station in April, as the agency confirmed a peculiar arrangement for obtaining a seat on the Russian spacecraft. SpaceNews

NASA has signed an agreement with Blue Origin to use that company's New Shepard suborbital vehicle for flights that will simulate the reduced gravity on the surface of the moon. SpaceNews

Zipping through space at close to the speed of light, Solar Energetic Particles, or SEPs, are one of the main challenges for the future of human spaceflight. Clouds of these tiny solar projectiles can make it to Earth--a...

When Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon" was first published in 1994, a quarter century had passed since the first astronauts walked on the lunar surface.

The microphone on Perseverance's SuperCam instrument picked up the gentle whoosh of the Martian wind as well as the not-so-gentle sounds generated by SuperCam's rock-zapping laser.

Two Russian cosmonauts will drill holes and apply sealant to stop two cracks in one of the oldest modules of the International Space Station.

China's Tianwen-1 mission has spent a month in orbit around Mars now and the photographs are already stunning.

Known fondly as the proprietor of “Bea’s Diner,” the nutritionist who created menus for our first spacefarers deserves to be better remembered --

Ukrainian startup Kurs Orbital is building an in-orbit servicing vehicle using space docking technology developed decades ago by the former Soviet Union. SpaceNews

Peter Beck announces an addition to the Rocket Lab family, with the Neutron Rocket. The post Move Over, Electron: Rocket Lab Introduces Its New Neutron Rocket appeared first on Universe Today.

A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of a study with proposals for 'technosignatures'--evidence for the use of technology or industrial activity in other parts of the Univers...

Two "Star Trek" series are nominated for the NAACP Image Awards, an initiative meant to honor outstanding performances in film, television, music and literature.

When NASA's Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents and waves quite unlike the near-Earth space much closer to our planet. This o...

As people in the UK were settling down to watch the late evening news on February 28, a fresh news story, quite literally, appeared in the night sky. A large and very bright fireball was seen over southern England and no...

Scientists have long known that certain ingredients are needed to support life, especially water and key organic chemicals like carbon. In recent years, both ingredients have been found on giant asteroids and other celes...

Using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Caucasus Mountain Observatory (CMO), Russian astronomers have investigated a peculiar source designated ZTF18abdlzhd. The observations revealed that this object is an SU ...

Image: An orange pouch and a yellow cable are paving the way for missions to the Moon. By monitoring space radiation and enabling faster communications, the Dosis-3D experiment and the Columbus Ka-band or ColKa terminal,...

It’s just like a normal solar system…except completely backwards. When solar systems form, both the parent star and any planets come from the same molecular cloud. As the cloud collapses, it spins up from conservatio...

Regions of the moon known as irregular mare patches--formed by magma cooling from a volcanic eruption--have almost no big craters, indicating that they must be relatively young. By studying the distribution of craters wi...

It sounds like science fiction, but building an enormous tower several kilometers high on the lunar surface may be the best way to harness solar energy for long-term lunar exploration. Such towers would raise solar panel...

The work of decoding the cosmic traveler has surprising relevance right now --

Award winning novelist Richard K. Morgan discusses his new "Altered Carbon" graphic novel from Dynamite Entertainment titled "One Life, One Death."