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Reports are coming in from observers who caught a few early shooting stars.

Astronomers have spotted the first evidence of a merger event that gave a black hole a kick that left it traveling at around 3 million mph -- fast enough for it to escape its host galaxy.

It sounds like the premise of a bad sci-fi movie: There's some mysterious entity, beyond the boundaries of our galaxy, that is pushing against us with incredible force.

NASA has tentatively scheduled the next attempt to fuel the Space Launch System and go through a practice countdown for June 19, two weeks after the vehicle returns to the launch pad. The post Next SLS countdown rehearsa...

Stratolaunch's Talon-A test vehicle will eventually drop from the biggest airplane ever built, known as the Roc.

Here's Hubble doing what Hubble does best. Some of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous and stunning images are of distant galaxies, and this one is drop-dead gorgeous too. This new image features the Grand Design Sp...

Investigating these co-orbiting worlds in our own solar system may help us predict prevalence in extrasolar systems.

Low Earth orbit is the lowest altitude a satellite can travel around our planet.

The Space Force funded eight launches in fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Five were assigned to United Launch Alliance and three to SpaceX. The post Space Force identifies national security launches funded in 2022 and 2023 ap...

Officials promise geology 'from 50 light-years away,' as they train the James Webb Space Telescope's high-precision spectrographs on two exoplanets.

Most of the stars in the Milky Way are single stars. But between one-third and one-half of them are binary stars. Can habitable planets form in these environments? New research shows that habitable planets could exist ar...

If you're hoping to see the potential tau Herculids meteor shower, NASA advises you to check the weather and be ready for the unexpected.

A bipartisan group of House members is proposing to increase funding for tactically responsive launch to $150 million in 2023 The post Lawmakers seek another big increase for DoD 'responsive launch' appeared first on Spa...

NASA discovered a bevy of headaches in its first three tries to run through a dress rehearsal countdown of the Artemis I moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center earlier this year. Now it's ready for attempt No. 4.

An international team led by a University of Sydney scientist has discovered an unusual radio signal emitting neutron star that rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation every 76 seconds.

Setting up any kind of off-Earth mining industry will be no small feat. Let's look at what we're up against.

The test was designed to study how gas behaves in microgravity, and the results may lead to future experiments with the fifth state of matter, Bose-Einstein condensates.

A potential meteor shower may emerge from Hercules tonight (May 31-31). Keep your eyes peeled and your fingers crossed.

By analyzing data from ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft and NASA's TESS telescope, German astronomers have inspected a highly variable polar known as V496 UMa. Results of the study, published May 20 on arXiv.org, deliver more...

Video: 00:07:10 Interview with ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer after the conclusion of his 177-day mission on the International Space Station. During his time in orbit, Matthias supported over 35 European experiments and e...

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