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NASA has announced that Heliophysics Division leader Nicola Fox will be the agency's new head of science, overseeing more than 100 missions.

Tomonori Totani, an astrobiologist with the University of Tokyo is proposing that the search for life beyond Earth be expanded to the study of space dust. In his paper published in the journal International Journal of As...

Maxar, Planet and BlackSky are working to expand their offerings beyond optical imagery. The post Remote sensing companies try to capture bigger piece of satellite imaging market appeared first on SpaceNews.

In December 2020, JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft delivered a pristine sample of otherworldly dust and rock from asteroid Ryugu to Earth. Scientists have since had the opportunity to study the sample, and announced last week...

Cyclone Freddy, which is finally dissipating after battering Southeast Africa, has crossed the entire Indian Ocean and made landfall three separate times.

Since time immemorial, humans around the world have gazed up in wonder at the night sky. The starry night sky has not only inspired countless works of music, art and poetry, but has also played an important role in timek...

When the first object ever known to have visited the Earth's Solar System from outer space zoomed past in 2017, it was so strange that at least one leading astronomer was convinced it was an alien vessel.

How to achieve the very best views and images of the neighboring worlds in our solar system.

The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest.

Jean-Jacques Favier, who in 1996 became the sixth astronaut and first scientist from France to launch into space, has died at the age of 73. Favier flew as an STS-78 payload specialist.

The Space Systems Command announced March 24 it has selected 18 vendors to provide data analytics and software services to help decision makers analyze information about the space domain. The post Space Force selects 18 ...

The Canadian government formally committed March 24 to an extension of the International Space Station to 2030, joining other Western partners but not Russia. The post Canada agrees to ISS extension to 2030 appeared firs...