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Dr. David A. Boboltz of the National Science Foundation will answer your questions on the sun, red giants and more in the the Space.com forums AMA this week!

Astronaut hopefuls are being asked for their patience as ESA processes over 23 000 applications to its Astronaut and Astronaut (with a disability) vacancies. This number far exceeds the Agency's most optimistic forecasts...

Recent work has shown how "naked singularities" might defy the cosmic censorship conjecture --

The Aerospace Corp., an early adopter of the cubesat standard, is proposing a new shape for small satellites: a thin, round plate. SpaceNews

COVID-19 brought on new threats and challenges for university science lab security, as told by a guard in this first-person account.

Collins Aerospace said Aug. 23 it had been awarded a $2.6 million contract by an undisclosed customer to provide life support systems for a planned "privately owned and operated low Earth orbit outpost." SpaceNews

The overall space economy expanded 4.4 percent to $447 billion in 2020 with more nations participating than ever before, according to the Space Foundation's updated Space Report. SpaceNews

A rare seasonal "Blue Moon" wowed skywatchers Sunday (Aug. 22), marking the last time this type of moon will grace the sky until 2023.

A Scottish court has thrown out objections of a billionaire landowner against a planning permission granted to an operator of a prospective spaceport in the north of Scotland.

An interplanetary mission led by the University of California, Berkeley, to put two satellites--dubbed "Blue" and "Gold"--into orbit around Mars has been officially authorized to prepare for launch in October 2024.

Over the last two decades, scientists have found ice in many locations on Mars. Most Martian ice has been observed from orbital satellites like NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. But determining the grain size and dust ...

NASA has called off a spacewalk outside the International Space Station this week due a medical issue with one of the astronauts due to join the excursion.

The newfound asteroid 2021 PH27 completes one lap around our star every 113 Earth days. That's the shortest orbital period of any known solar system object except the planet Mercury.

Using the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile, astronomers just ten days ago discovered an asteroid with the shortest orbital period of any known asteroid in the Solar System. The orbit of the appr...

These novel missiles cannot live up to the grand promises made on their behalf, aerodynamics shows --

An iceberg 20 times the size of Manhattan careened dangerously close to its parent ice shelf in Antarctica, a series of satellite photos show.

Using XMM-Newton and Swift space telescopes, Chinese astronomers have inspected short-term X-ray variability of a tidal disruption event known as Swift J1644+57. Results of the study, published August 12 on the arXiv pre...

This jewel-bright image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1385, a spiral galaxy 68 million light-years from Earth, which lies in the constellation Fornax. The image was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Cam...

From space, the synchronous retreat of the world's glaciers can be clearly observed. To get a first-hand view of these changes, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, along with Susanne Mecklenburg, Head of ESA's Climate Office, ...

On August 28, a SpaceX rocket will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying supplies bound for the International Space Station. But also on board will be a small satellite that represents a giant leap into spac...

Astronomers have succeeded for the first time in quantifying the proton and electron components of cosmic rays in a supernova remnant. At least 70% of the very-high-energy gamma rays emitted from cosmic rays are due to r...

When we talk about amazing geological features, we often limit ourselves to those on Earth. But as a geologist, I think that's crazy--there are so many structures on other worlds that can excite and inspire, and that can...