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A medical issue has sidelined one of four astronauts assigned to SpaceX's upcoming flight to the International Space Station and delayed the launch, officials said Monday.

A new physics breakthrough shows how Einstein's theory of general relativity continues to hold up, even for "balding" black holes.

Detective work, utilizing expanded DNA databases, continues to unravel mysterious surrounding the victims of John Wayne Gacy, decades after the famous serial killer was executed for his crimes.

A new space mission will track human-made emissions of greenhouse gases from space to help keep the world on track to meet climate change mitigation targets.

Staying in space for a long time can cause brain damage, according to a new study.

One of the strangest comets in the solar system has been erupting with unpredictable bright outbursts since late September and nobody knows why.

A German astronaut is showing his love for Earth during a few extra days on the planet's surface before his first space mission.

You can help NASA make its Mars rovers even better explorers.

An astronomer from NSF's NOIRLab has teamed up with a geologist from California State University, Fresno, to make the first estimates of rock types that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars. After studying the chemical...

Samuel Adams is ready to toast the first "all-civilian" orbital spaceflight with a beer made with hops flown on the mission. The brewery has announced "Space Craft," its Inspiration4-inspired release.

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British startup Isotropic Systems announced successful field tests for its flat-panel antenna Nov. 2, after successfully connecting to SES satellites in multiple orbits simultaneously for the first time. SpaceNews

This Lego Star Wars Bad Batch Attack Shuttle set also comes with buildable speeders.

In their book, two Australian astrophysicists question the idea that our Universe "fine-tuned" for life, with some interesting conclusions. The post Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA will provide live coverage of its Spaceflight for Everybody virtual symposium, an event aimed at communicating the current state of NASA spaceflight health knowledge.

If we define planets as worlds that are geologically complex, then some moons are planets too. The post Moons are Planets too appeared first on Universe Today.

An adventure-orientated outdoor backpack, the LowePro Photosport 24L could be the perfect companion for astrophotography trips into the backcountry

When two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their cores release a devastating gravitational "kick," similar to the recoil from a shotgun. New research led by CU Boulder suggests that this kick may be so po...

NASA is still working to understand a glitch that took instruments on a venerable space observatory out of commission.

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took a short hop flight on October 24, giving the mission team both a sigh of relief and an anticipatory look to future flights. This 14th flight of Ingenuity's mission was a short 23-second...

University of Leicester experts in the military uses of outer space have urged further international dialog and 'cool heads' following flight tests of a new Chinese hypersonic missile system.

Dozens of space-based telescopes operate near Earth and provide incredible images of the universe. But imagine a telescope far away in the outer solar system, 10 or even 100 times farther from the sun than Earth. The abi...