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The National Space Council recently completed three public listening sessions on the issue of In-Space Authorization and Supervision, often described broadly as mission authorization. These terms seem vague and bureaucra...

The Netherlands, Austria and Italy have pledged not to conduct destructive anti-satellite tests, bringing the number of nations to make such a commitment to 13.

A new false-color mosaic made from images snapped by an Indian ocean-studying satellite captures Earth's continents and seas in stunning detail from space.

Marvel Studios releases a first look trailer for November's cosmic superhero team-up film, "The Marvels"

Some parts of the solar system are exceptionally hard to reach. Despite the interesting scientific data we could collect from that location, we’ve never managed to send a probe to one of the poles of the Sun. Nor have ...

A Chinese launch company has stepped up its quest to develop reusable rockets with sea platform landing tests using a small demonstrator.

Titan Books is releasing a new "Guardians of the Galaxy" book from author Brendan Deneen.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is targeting its second mission of 2023, and sixth mission overall, with the launch of a ViaSat satellite no earlier than April 18.

NASA's Perseverance rover just obtained its sixteenth sample, which will be retrieved by the joint NASA/ESA Sample Return Mission The post Perseverance is Turning Into That Friend That's Always Picking Up Rocks appeared ...

Ariane 5 for flight VA260 carrying ESA's Juice mission is seen here fully integrated and ready for rollout for its planned April 13, 2023 launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

Ready for another stunning image from JWST? How about a peek inside a supernova remnant? Not just any stellar debris, but a highly detailed view of the leftovers from the explosion that created Cassiopeia A. The latest i...

All stars are born from the collapse of clouds of dust and gas. But triggering star formation is a tricky process, because these gas clouds can just hang out doing nothing for billions of years. A pair of researchers hav...

Some of the most exciting things that happen in a telescope's lifetime are its data releases. Gaia, which has been operating since 2013, recently released its third major dataset, and astronomers that weren't intimately ...

What will Europe's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) tell us about the presence of life in the vicinity of the solar system's largest planet?

If you only knew the power of the dark side.

A pair of Earth, atmospheric and planetary scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown how the magnetic field of a meteorite can be damaged by amateur collectors using hand magnets. In their paper publi...

A massive wall of falling plasma, known as a polar crown prominence, was recently captured in a stunningly-detailed new photo of the sun.

If you only knew the power of the dark side.

Astronomers have developed a way to cheaply and easily measure the radiation exposure experienced by airline crews over Africa. Cosmic radiation constantly bombards our atmosphere. Composed of tiny particles traveling at...

By analyzing the data from various astronomical surveys, astronomers have detected 188,002 candidate metal-poor stars. The discovery, reported in a research paper published March 30 on the arXiv pre-print server, may hel...

More and more miniature satellites are being launched every year, driving up demand for smaller rockets.

A second pair of O3b mPower satellites for upgrading SES' medium Earth orbit broadband network are due to arrive at their SpaceX launchpad in Florida this week, Boeing announced April 11. The post Next O3b mPower satelli...