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Students from New York will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Media will have the opportunity to see the iconic golden mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope open for the last time on Earth during a virtual briefing Tuesday, May 11, at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT).

Follow along with me, Space.com senior writer Chelsea Gohd, as I become an analog astronaut in a brand new documentary premiering on Space.com this Friday at noon EDT (1600 GMT).

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will send its first crew to space on July 20 and is offering one of the seats to the winner of an online auction, the company said Wednesday.

Blue Origin announced May 5 that it will fly people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for the first time July 20, and will auction off one of the seats on that launch. SpaceNews

KSAT is rapidly installing antennas around the world to keep pace with the dramatic rise in small satellite activity. SpaceNews

Blue Origin is targeting July 20 for the debut astronaut launch of its New Shepard vehicle, which is designed to take people and scientific experiments on brief trips to suborbital space.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has contracted low Earth orbit broadband venture OneWeb to demo managed satcom services in strategic Arctic locations. SpaceNews

An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch experienced a ground abort during the terminal countdown May 5. SpaceNews

New observations and simulations show that jets of high-energy particles emitted from the central massive black hole in the brightest galaxy in galaxy clusters can be used to map the structure of invisible inter-cluster ...

Red wine stored at the International Space Station for more than a year returned to Earth looking and testing a bit different, and it aged faster than wine on Earth.

The Dragon spacecraft Resilience may have just returned to Earth, but it already has a new mission: to carry the first private astronaut flight for SpaceX.

"Our shuttles need to refuel before they burn for the moon..."

A new map including rover paths of the Schrodinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions....

The largest section of the rocket that launched the main module of China's first permanent space station into orbit is expected to plunge back to Earth as early as Saturday at an unknown location.

This overlay shows radio (orange) and infrared images of a giant molecular cloud called W49A, where new stars are being formed....

NASA has a long tradition of unexpected discoveries, and the space program's TESS mission is no different....

Space Mysteries: Did an unidentified flying object really crash land at a New Mexico ranch in 1947, only to be hushed up by the government?

Astronomers try to solve the mystery of antihelium by searching for antistars.

A curiously yellow pre-supernova star has caused astrophysicists to re-evaluate what's possible at the deaths of our Universe's most massive stars. The team describe the peculiar star and its resulting supernova in a new...

If dark matter exists, it could make Jupiter-like exoplanets warmer than we expect. The post Dark Matter Could Change the Temperature of Exoplanets, Allowing us to Detect it appeared first on Universe Today.

Using the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), astronomers from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China have detected a low frequency, quasi-periodic oscillation in a black hole high mass X-ray binary known as Cygn...