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Image: The US State of Washington is under a state of emergency following days of severe wind and rain leading to extensive flooding in parts of the state. Different satellites in orbit carry different instruments that c...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has completed its annual grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune--extending as far as 30 times the distance b...

This Thanksgiving, wow your family with the help of a little osmosis and diffusion.

A husband-and-wife team of astronomers at The University of Toledo joined forces for the first time in their scientific careers during the pandemic to develop a new method to look back in time and change the way we under...

Virgin Orbit is actively pursuing new business in the national security market, executives said Nov. 17 during an "Investors Day" event. SpaceNews

In a new study, a team of astronomers come to the conclusion that Proxima b will ever be detected making transits in front of Proxima Centauri, which will make it harder to characterize. The post Maybe There’s No Way t...

Actors engaged in the emerging European commercial launch sector are looking to European commercial spaceports to be established rather than shipping rockets farther afield. SpaceNews

The longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years, which will bathe the Moon in red, will be visible Thursday and Friday for a big slice of humanity.

Astra aims to reach orbit for the first time early Friday morning (Nov. 19), and you can watch the action live.

Media accreditation is now open for SpaceX's 24th cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station.

The SpaceNews Awards are held each year to recognize achievements in space commerce, exploration and stewardship. SpaceNews

Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th flight on Sept. 4 provides the most detailed look yet of the rotorcraft in action.

Season 4 of "Star Trek: Discovery" is back on Paramount Plus and its premiere episode is a little uneven to say the least.

Planets without plate tectonics are unlikely to be habitable. But currently, we’ve never seen the surface of an exoplanet to determine if plate tectonics are active. Scientists piece together their likely surface struc...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

To create the ice, the scientists had to squeeze a water droplet to 3.5 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure and heat it hotter than the sun.

Wormholes may be stable after all, a new theory suggests, contradicting previous predictions that these hypothetical shortcuts through space-time would instantly collapse.

What's the worst that could happen from the Russian missile test that blasted more than 1,500 pieces of space debris into Earth orbit?

U.S. national security space organizations released a report Nov. 18 proposing ways to boost the nation's space economy and technology base. SpaceNews

The International Space Station remains at increased risk from orbiting debris following this week's Russian weapons test, NASA said Thursday.

Even after 30 months in space, The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 mission continues to successfully "sail on sunbeams" demonstrating solar sail technology in Earth orbit. The mission is providing hard data for future mi...

After securing a $150 million credit facility, Minerva intends to create an ecosystem where information on space objects can be collected, compared and verified with non-fungible, meaning unique, digital tokens. SpaceNew...