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Two astronauts expected to fly on early missions of Boeing's crew capsule will instead ride to orbit with SpaceX, NASA announced today (Oct. 6).

Their work gave us crucial insights into how complex systems behave.

Global satellite-based high-speed internet access will come at a cost, polluting the skies and contaminating astronomical observations.

The original "Star Trek" captain, a Blue Origin vice-president, a co-founder of Planet Labs and a co-founder of a medical research platform will all rocket to space on a Blue Origin flight.

Scientists thought asteroid Bennu's surface would be like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, which would have been perfect for collecting samples. Past telescope observations from Earth's orbit had suggest...

Even the most supermassive of the supermassive black holes aren’t very large, making it extremely difficult to measure their sizes. However, astronomers have recently developed a new technique that can estimate the mas...

NASA will provide coverage of upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for Lucy, the agency's first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

Finland's Kuva Space raised 4.2 million euros ($4.85 million) to fund its campaign to establish a constellation of commercial hyperspectral cubesats. SpaceNews

SpaceX's newest crewed mission to space is ready for launch!

Two NAU astronomers presented groundbreaking research at the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences, a branch of the American Academy of Sciences.

Star clusters are large gravitationally bound groups of stars that are one of the best tools astronomers have to study stellar evolution.

Astronomers have been using gravitational waves to detect merging black holes for years now, but may have to rely on pulsars – rapidly spinning neutron stars – to observe the mergers of supermassive black holes. When...

NGA broke ground on the St. Louis campus in November 2019 and expects to open for business in 2025 SpaceNews

Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.

The first Italian woman to fly in space is no longer a one-of-a-kind Barbie. Samantha Cristoforetti joined the fashion doll line three years ago, but only now has it gone on sale for World Space Week.

While the exclusive footage and the interviews were fascinating, Netflix's "Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space" docuseries lacks drama. By the time the final episode was released, the crew had been safely back for ...

The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ's light-gathering aperture makes it ideal for observing a selection of galaxies, nebulas, planets and star clusters.

Energy from the solar wind interacting with the magnetospheric 'bubble' around Earth creates waves of energy that appear to stand still.

The new Arid meteor shower may be making itself known in early October 2021.

You may know the feeling of seeing Jupiter through your own telescope. If it gives you the chills--like it does for me--then you'll know how the team for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter felt when they turned their space...

Usually, when the topic of asteroid mining comes up, thoughts turn to the riches of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The sheer size and scale of the available resources in these asteroids are astounding and ov...

The torrid pace of investment and acquisitions involving space companies this year is unlikely to continue next year, but investors and bankers are still optimistic about the long-term growth prospects for the industry. ...