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One of the instrument's early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.

It's nice to have a feel-good story every once in a while, so here's one to hold off the existential dread: the Earth isn't likely to get flung off into deep space for at least 100,000 years. In fact, all of the Solar Sy...

It's clear that space weather can cause blackouts, but scientists are still working to predict extreme events and forecast their potentially devastating effects.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on July 1 launched the USSF-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The rocket lifted off at 7:15 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Flor...

The United States Government has declared that it will no longer be performing tests of Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons. In a public statement during a visit to the Vandenberg Space Force Base, Vice President Kamala Harris...

For Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Shoemaker Impact Structure (formerly known as Teague Ring) in Western Australia....

Some of the most dramatic events in the Universe occur when certain stars die -- and explode catastrophically in the process....

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

The seven Expedition 67 crew members are going into the weekend with a host of microgravity research and housekeeping activities....

For its last international deployment, the aircraft returns to Christchurch for a seventh and final time.

A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven U.S. Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast and streaked toward space Friday night.

Virgin Orbit successfully placed a set of payloads for the U.S. Space Force into orbit early July 2 in the company's first nighttime launch. The post Virgin Orbit launches Space Force mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

Virgin Orbit just aced its fourth mission in a row, launching seven small satellites in the company's first-ever night flight.