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Blue Origin is seeking to overturn NASA's award of a lunar lander contract to SpaceX by arguing that SpaceX's proposal failed to meet requirements for reviews that made it "unawardable." SpaceNews

Exo-Space, a Los Angeles startup formed in 2020 to offer inexpensive easy-to-assemble cubesats, has pivoted in response to growing demand for on-orbit data processing. SpaceNews

Supermassive black holes (SMBH) reside in the center of galaxies like the Milky Way. They are mind-bogglingly massive, ranging from 1 million to 10 billion solar masses. Their smaller brethren, intermediate-mass black ho...

Sea ice in the Arctic appears to have hit its annual minimum extent on Sept. 16, after waning in the 2021 Northern Hemisphere spring and summer. The summertime extent is the 12th-lowest in the satellite record, according...

The Space Force is providing Congress overly optimistic forecasts of its planned procurement of missile-warning satellites, GAO said in a new report. SpaceNews

In "The Eternal Cylinder," players must evolve their characters to survive in a surreal alien world.

New research has found more evidence that Mars once experienced super-volcanoes that filled the atmosphere with ash and dust. The post Although it’s Quiet Today, Mars Once had Thousands of Volcanic Eruptions on its Sur...

The Fornax Cluster--which, as the name suggests, lies primarily in the constellation Fornax (the Furnace)--is a relatively nearby galaxy cluster, only about 60 million light-years from Earth. This means that it looms lar...

Astronomers have discovered a huge cavity 500 light-years wide in the Milky Way galaxy believed to have been carved out by a supernova 10 million years ago.

Russia's Nauka multipurpose laboratory module continues being outfitted today before operations begin with Europe's new robotic arm....

The private space flight, SpaceX, completed a historic mission with the first all-civilian flight crew last weekend. The four members of the Inspiration4 crew raised $200 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...

Students from Iowa will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

In April 2021 Hubble released its 31st-anniversary image. It’s a portrait of AG Carinae, one of the most luminous stars in the entire Milky Way. AG Carinae is in a wreckless struggle with itself, periodically ejecting ...

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A Funko Pop!-themed Baby Yoda (Grogu) from "The Mandalorian" will become the first "Star Wars" balloon to debut at the traditional Turkey Day event.

Here our beginner's guide on how to photograph the aurora, which includes the best techniques and camera settings for capturing the Northern Lights.

Space 220, Disney's new restaurant offering guests a chance to dine in Earth orbit, opened this week after a five-year countdown. Even without NASA being involved, Space 220 has nods to space history.

NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 28, to preview the launch of the agency's first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

An international team of astronomers has not only detected clouds on the distant exoplanet WASP-127b, but also measured their altitude with unprecedented precision. A presentation by Dr. Romain Allart at the Europlanet S...

OrbAstro, a space-as-a-service startup with visions of flying "tiny satellites in large flocks," is gearing up to launch its first half-dozen smallsats in 2022 -- including its just-announced first micro satellite. Space...

The mobile game 'Star Trek Fleet Command' is now available on PC and there's new exclusives for players who download the game.

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Cloud-spotting on a distant exoplanet An international team of astronomers has not only detected clouds on the distant exoplanet WASP-127b, but also measured their altitude with unprec...