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On Wednesday, March 30, residents in Bloomington, Indiana, and surrounding counties were literally shaken to attention by the sound of an exploding meteor.

In our age, we’ve grown accustomed to pictures of astronauts inside the International Space Station, as they float in zero-G and tend their science experiments. We’re even getting used to images of spacewalking astro...

As the planets rise in April we're given stunning views, if you know where to look.

SpaceX launched the fourth in its series of dedicated rideshare missions April 1, placing one relatively large satellite and dozens of smallsats into low Earth orbit. The post SpaceX launches fourth dedicated rideshare m...

NASA will be conducting a Wet Dress Rehearsal with the SLS rocket this weekend in preparation for its maiden flight! The post NASA Will be Testing SLS Over the Weekend appeared first on Universe Today.

More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the 37th Space Symposium in person at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and online through a virtual platform. The post 37th Space Symposium attendance to top 10,000 a...

A Rocket Lab Electron launched another pair of imaging satellites for BlackSky April 2 as the company gears up to attempt recovery of the rocket's first stage. The post Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellites as it prepa...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.

Only after a round of X-rays and CT scans did researchers discover that the 2,000 year old remains were not what they first appeared.

A red giant star in the final stages of its existence has been caught emitting strange smoke-like rings for the first time.

Before launching Apollo 11 to land astronauts on the moon, NASA secretly sent a fourth grader there first. That is one of the stories in Richard Linklater's "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood."