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The first meeting of the National Space Council under Vice President Kamala Harris will take place on Wednesday (Dec. 1). We'll presumably be able to watch it live.

What happens to a star when it strays too close to a monster black hole? Astronomers have wondered why some stars are ripped apart, while others manage to survive a close encounter with a lurking black hole, only a littl...

NASA postponed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station by two astronauts just hours before it was scheduled to start after getting a warning that debris would pass close to the station. SpaceNews

Strange things happen in Earth's atmosphere at high latitudes. Around local noon, when the Sun is at its highest point, a funnel-shaped gap in our planet's magnetic field passes overhead. Earth's magnetic field shields u...

China's Shenzhou 13 astronauts are playing a major role in testing and constructing the country's first long-term space station, but they're also maintaining a decent work-life balance.

Astronomers have broken yet another record, spotting a new gas giant with the shortest known orbit. The world takes just 16 hours to circle its star -- but someday, the dance may come to an abrupt end.

Investors that rescued Anuvu from bankruptcy in March have thrown $50 million behind plans for the mobile connectivity provider to have its own constellation of small geostationary-orbit (GEO) satellites. SpaceNews

It will cost your kid $8 less to explore the universe.

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety o...

Elon Musk thinks that problems with SpaceX's Raptor engine production pose potentially dire consequences for the company, according to media reports.

After being exhumed from the depths of a lake, this 1200-year-old dugout canoe has a long way to go before it's properly preserved.

Australian startup Q-Ctrl has raised $25 million to develop software for space-qualified quantum sensors in a funding round led by Airbus Ventures, the venture capital arm of European aerospace and defense giant Airbus. ...

Monopoly and Trouble both score a themed edition inspired by the Disney Plus live-action series, The Mandalorian.

NASA and the Department of Energy hope to put a nuclear fission reactor on the moon by 2030, and they need your help.

Space is more dangerous than ever after Russia's recent anti-satellite test.

NASA is taking a step toward the next era of space communications with the launch of its Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) on Sunday, Dec. 5.

The generational observatory is nearly ready for space after years of delays.

The moon has no core dynamo magnetic field, but spacecraft detect numerous strong localized magnetic fields in the crust of the moon. Many of these magnetic anomalies are antipodal to large impact basins.

Finding plumes at Europa is an exciting prospect, but scientists warn it'll be tricky, even from up close.

A pair of supermassive black holes that will soon become one has been discovered hiding in a nearby galaxy.

As the National Space Council prepares to meet this week, job one is to fully apply space technology to address the most compelling issue of our time -- human-induced climate change. SpaceNews

Researchers rewound the history of the Magellanic Stream, and found it is 5 times closer to Earth that previously thought