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Astronomers from China have performed a comprehensive multiwavelength monitoring of a low-mass black hole X-ray binary system known as MAXI J1820+070. Results of this study, published April 21 on the arXiv pre-print repo...

When the four-decades-old Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space in 2012 and 2018, respectively, scientists celebrated. These plucky spacecraft had already traveled 120 times the distance from the ...

NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is now targeting a return to Earth at 11:36 a.m. E...

Rocket Factory Augsburg has added two more customers to its launch manifest a week after rival German startup Isar Aerospace secured its first. SpaceNews

President Biden has picked former top Pentagon acquisition official Frank Kendall to be secretary of the Air Force. SpaceNews

French satellite operator Eutelsat is paying $550 million to buy part of OneWeb, the startup deploying a broadband network in low Earth orbit. SpaceNews

The Force is strong with Lego's ever-growing "Star Wars" line of toys, which added several new building sets on Monday (April 26).

NASA has added a new rocket to its lineup of launch vehicles.

A red giant star may have a black hole companion that is only three solar masses in size. The post Smallest, Closest Black Hole Ever Discovered is Only 1,500 Light-Years Away appeared first on Universe Today.

The FCC approved a modification of SpaceX's license for its Starlink constellation, allowing the company to operate more than 2,800 additional satellites in lower orbits. SpaceNews

A biography of Victor Glover, NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew Dragon pilot

The mysterious heating of the sun's corona might be powered by miniature solar flares dubbed 'campfires,' discovered by the European-US Solar Orbiter mission last year, a new study suggests.

Want to win Elon Musk's $100 million XPRIZE for carbon removal? Think small and think Mars. SpaceNews

ESA's second Test-Bed Telescope, hosted at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile, has seen 'first light' - when a new telescope is first used to look up.

Space is big business once again, Mars rovers and putative moon landings aside, there is an enormous need for geostationary satellites. With increasing traffic there is also a need for new sites for spaceports that might...

An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and Queen's University Belfast has detected a new chemical signature in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet--i.e., a plane...

Smallsat specialist York Space Systems is producing a larger satellite platform with double the payload volume of its current spacecraft bus in response to market demand. SpaceNews

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is kicking off an ambitious schedule of 18 flights in 2021 with their spring campaign from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the program's first major flight campaign since the COVID-19 pandemic ...

NASA and SpaceX have delayed the splashdown of the Crew-1 astronaut mission due to bad weather at their Atlantic Ocean splashdown site.

Computer simulations show that the miniature solar flares nicknamed 'campfires', discovered last year by ESA's Solar Orbiter, are likely driven by a process that may contribute significantly to the heating of the Sun's o...

In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel.

Space is getting crowded.