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Making sure Starliner is ready to carry astronauts involves a crucial step in the scientific process: experimentation.

The solar system's current planetary orbits seem stable, but that's only because the planets have settled into them over billions of years. The early solar system was a much different place than that seen today, and for ...

Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the end of this year.

The International Space Station is gearing up for the targeted arrival of Boeing's Starliner crew ship on the company's Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission....

A comet threatens to impact into an inhabited world, plus Pike ponders if his own future is preordained in episode 2 of "Strange New Worlds."

Two small satellites launched last summer by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency successfully established an optical link during a nearly 40-minute test. The post Military experiment demonstrates intersatellite...

This newly revised NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG 31) of galaxies highlights streams of star-formation as four dwarf galaxies interact. The bright, distorted clump of young blue-wh...

Eleven glorious episodes of "The Orville" will gracefully land on Hulu weekly starting June 2. Watch the full trailer here.

AST SpaceMobile will start deploying operational satellites in 2023 "even in the event of any complication" with the BlueWalker 3 prototype slated to launch this summer, an executive for the cellphone-compatible broadban...

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A new study confirms that dust from the zodiacal cloud originates in the Kuiper belt, more than 2 billion miles from Earth.

Astronauts who go on their first long-duration space mission have differences in their brains compared with the brains of more experienced astronauts and non-astronauts.

NASA has awarded the Cybersecurity and Privacy Enterprise Solutions and Services (CyPrESS) contract to Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Virginia.

Covered in the red dust that sealed its fate, the NASA InSight lander is slowly shutting down, more than 250 million kilometers from home.

John Thornton and others want to ensure that Astrobotic isn't the only space company in Pittsburgh or the wider region. The post Foust Forward | Building a space industry in Steel City appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA Seeks Input on Moon to Mars Objectives, Comments Due May 31

Amazon is currently holding a sale on a couple of beginner telescopes from Celestron and they're under $100.

The U.S. military aims to more systematically classify and characterize reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), officials said during a congressional hearing on Tuesday (May 17).

Read live updates of Boeing's second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on May 19.

What goes for moving clocks goes for everything else; physics, chemistry and biology all operate at a slower pace in moving frames of reference.

The Defense Innovation Unit announced May 17 it selected Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. and Avalanche to develop small nuclear-powered spacecraft for in-space demonstrations planned for 2027. The post DIU selects nuclear-power...

A team of astronomers from Columbia University has found a new way to probe the depths of merging black holes, which could lead to a new understanding of physics! The post Merging Supermassive Black Holes Gives us a New ...