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The most detailed radio images of galaxies outside the Milky Way have been captured by a network of 70,000 radio antennas spread over nine European countries.

Image: New radar images show the A-74 iceberg spinning around the western tip of the Brunt Ice Shelf, brushing slightly against it before continuing southwards.

NASA will stop work on a Human Landing System award to SpaceX through the end of October as a federal court takes up a suit filed by Blue Origin protesting the contract. SpaceNews

The rocket that will carry the James Webb Space Telescope to space later this year is on its way to the launch site! The post James Webb’s Upper Stage is off to the Launch Site appeared first on Universe Today.

The next SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to visit the International Space Station will launch next Saturday (Aug. 28), and if you're an early-bird you can watch it all online.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

NASA's Perseverance rover has given us an otherworldly skywatching treat -- the minuscule Mars moon Deimos, twinkling in the dusty Red Planet skies.

The Astrobee robotic free-flyers were powered up aboard the International Space Station and cell samples were set up for human muscle research today....

Tiny iron nanoparticles unlike any found naturally on Earth are nearly everywhere on the moon--and scientists are trying to understand why. A new study led by Northern Arizona University doctoral candidate Christian J. T...

Chinese astronauts conducted their second spacewalk outside of the country's new space station on Friday, installing a range of equipment including a back-up air-conditioning unit.

While moving up the date of a human lunar landing may have been well intentioned, providing the urgency needed to make decisions and more forward, budgets that have not kept pace with projections and inevitable future te...

The U.S. Space Force on Aug. 23 will establish the Space Training and Readiness Command at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs. SpaceNews

As kids go back to school, either virtually or in-person, citizen science offers a new way to learn about their world.

As an asteroid, Phaethon is a ball composed mainly of rock, and it shouldn't have enough water ice to form the glowing fuzzy coma and tail that adorn a comet.

Asteroids are packed with gold and other valuable resources. And the best way to harvest those metals may be to bring space rocks to Earth.

Billionaire Jared Isaacman is looking for a brewery to make beer with space-flown hops -- for a good cause.

In a spacecraft, in order to protect both crew and electronics from radiation, it is mandatory to invest in effective radiation monitoring systems. The International Space Station (ISS), just like the Large Hadron Collid...

Every massive galaxy is believed to host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at its center. Its mass is correlated with the mass of the inner regions of its host (and also with some other properties), probably because the S...

The recent Office of Inspector General report that concluded NASA's spacesuit program is out of sync with with a 2024 lunar landing excluded any consideration of the substantial privately led work that has already been a...

Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is gearing up for its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, with plans to have a sample from Mars' moon Phobos return to Earth by 2029. Mission scientists say they hope to find clues to t...

Competing positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) companies are joining forces to accelerate efforts to back up global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). SpaceNews

NASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a Blue Origin lawsuit, further risking the agency's tight timeline to return astronauts to the moon.