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NASA's OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu around 6 a.m. EDT (4 a.m. MDT) April 7 and is now slowly drifting away from the asteroid; however, the mission team will have to wait a few more days to find out how ...

Astronomers from the University of Groningen and elsewhere have identified 44 new ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs). The newly found objects most likely belong to the Fornax Cluster. The discovery is reported in a pape...

The coastal cities of Ningbo and Wenchang are planning construction of Chinese commercial spaceports to meet growing demand for launch in China. SpaceNews

NASA has awarded the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Support Services contract to ICF Incorporated LLC of Fairfax, Virginia.

A new report by ODNI projects that by 2040 China will be the most significant rival to the United States in space, competing on commercial, civil and military fronts. SpaceNews

The beginning of April always generates a slew of research papers from scientists who should know better. Here is this year's round up.

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two cosmonauts toward the space station early Friday (April 9) on a last-minute mission. Here's how you can watch it live.

But this may not be the end of the story.

Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give rise to shooting stars. Some of them reach the ground in the form of micrometeori...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) hailed the April 8 announcement that Los Angeles Air Force Base will be the permanent home of the U.S. Space Force procurement command. SpaceNews

The U.S. Space Force is consolidating oversight of space launch activities under a two-star general who will be the deputy commander of Space Systems Command. SpaceNews

The Space Force will re-designate the Space and Missile Systems Center as the headquarters of a new Space Systems Command. SpaceNews

Phase Four, a startup working on electric propulsion for satellites, has won an Air Force contract to test using an alternative propellant for its thrusters. SpaceNews

Three years from today, on Monday, April 8, 2024, more than half a billion people across North America have the chance to see another Great American Solar Eclipse.

Calibration and validation (CAL/VAL) is a key technology for quantitative application of space-borne remote sensing data. However, the complex space environment can cause many uncertainties and degrade calibration accura...

The Perseverance rover has just landed on Mars. Meanwhile, its precursor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp (officially Aeolis Mons), a mountain several kilometers high at the center of the Gale crate...

An ancient impactor called Theia hit the Earth to create the moon. New research suggests the rest of that planet may still be inside the Earth.

An intermediate mass black hole was discovered by its chance alignment with a gamma ray burst. The post An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered Through the Gravitational Lensing of a Gamma-ray Burst appeared first on ...

NASA encourages researchers to develop and study unexpected approaches for traveling through, understanding, and exploring space.

Many space startups are not aware of their export control obligations and are exposed to punitive sanctions. With five different export control mechanisms, this is no surprise. If your startup has an international client...

Did the Perseverance rover capture a rainbow on Mars? This image, from the rover's left rear Hazard Camera, sure looks like it. But alas, no. However, film director JJ Abrams would be proud. The rover's official Twitter ...