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On Jan. 9, 2020, NASA's Lucy mission officially announced that it would be visiting not seven, but eight asteroids. As it turns out, Eurybates, one of the asteroids along Lucy's path, has a small satellite.

Max Polyakov is on a mission to build out a vertically integrated space business with Noosphere Ventures Partners, his Silicon Valley-based investment vehicle. He tells SpaceNews how COVID-19 has affected these plans, an...

Astronomers have apparently found the closest known black hole to Earth -- a weirdly tiny object dubbed "The Unicorn" that lurks just 1,500 light-years from us.

Walking around the moon could be faster than we originally thought, but actually doing it would require some serious planning.

Blue Origin is once again feeling momentum after the latest successful flight of their New Shepard launch vehicle. The post Blue Origin’s Latest New Shepard Flight is a Success, With Passengers Climbing on Board (and G...

Science is in full swing aboard the International Space Station today as the Expedition 65 crew studies how microgravity affects the human body....

The Space Development Agency needs "affordable" optical terminals that can be mass produced. SpaceNews

NASA has delayed the scheduled April 22 launch of the Crew-2 commercial crew mission by a day because of weather not at the launch site but at potential abort locations in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceNews

A hunt for hypothetical axions streaming from Betelgeuse turns up empty but helps physicists set constraints on their properties.

Astronaut Sally Ride will be depicted on a U.S. coin looking out a spacecraft window at Earth, if the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury agrees with the recommendations made by two advisory panels.

As the New Horizons spacecraft hurtles out towards interstellar space, it has now reached an historical milestone. On April 17, 2021, New Horizons passed 50 astronomical units, or 50 times Earth's distance from the Sun. ...

The growing list of "firsts" for Perseverance, NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen.

Private equity firm Antarctica Capital has formed a Canadian optical satellite imagery provider called EarthDaily Analytics, after buying parts of UrtheCast that sought creditor protection last year to avoid bankruptcy. ...

Gen. David Thompson said a shift to buying commercially provided space services is going to take time and will require a cultural adjustment. SpaceNews

NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts will answer media questions at 12:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 26, about their upcoming return to Earth from the International Space Station.

Scientists have discovered one of the smallest black holes on record--and the closest one to Earth found to date.

Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun's nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri.

Astronomers using data from NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside the swirling spira...

Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be a major step in pinpointing exactly how some giant stars explode.

A brief summary of Michael Hopkins' career in the Air Force and at NASA.

Space is busy and getting busier. Given the anticipated increased utilization of space largely in low Earth orbit, robust data dissemination of active satellite operations as well as orbital debris mitigation plans must ...

A crewed SpaceX mission to the International Space Station has been postponed by a day due to weather concerns downrange of the launch site, NASA said Wednesday.