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NASA's defunct, 600-pound (270 kilograms) RHESSI spacecraft will reenter Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday (April 19) at 9:30 p.m. ET, plus or minus 16 hours, the U.S. military predicts.

The mapping of matter in the cosmos helps to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity and reveals more about mysterious dark matter.

An international team of scientists, led by a researcher at The University of Manchester, have developed a novel AI (artificial intelligence) approach to distill technical astronomy terminology into simple understandable...

Marvel Studios releases a new featurette starring the cast and crew of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3."

The U.S. Space Force is facing a new challenge in its role to safeguard the country's satellites from foreign threats, as Russian and Chinese satellites engage in disruptive maneuvers and follow other nations' spacecraft...

NASA has selected Rothe Ares Joint Venture of San Antonio to manage digital communication services, as well as information technology services, for all agency centers and headquarters.

The Linuss experiment -- short for Lockheed Martin's In-space Upgrade Satellite System -- went to orbit on the USSF-44 national security mission launched by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The post Lockheed Martin declares succes...

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has launched a new subsidiary called Crescent Space Services after NASA issued a call for a commercial lunar communications network.

When astronauts return to the moon in the next few years, the plan is to have them stay for good while establishing a permanent outpost on Earth's nearest celestial neighbor. Like all space missions, a lunar outpost will...

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Astronomers have investigated an ultraslow radio pulsar known as PSR J0901-4046, finding that it has an extremely high magnetic field--at a level of 30 quadrillion Gauss. The discovery, published April 7 in Physical Revi...

Space.com talked with the retro-futuristic show's creators on rocket passenger lists and the prospects for returning for a second season of "Hello Tomorrow!"

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was discovered Monday, turning into a dazzling fireball that was spotted throughout Europe.

Shining like a brilliant beacon amidst a sea of galaxies, Arp 220 lights up the night sky in this view from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Actually two spiral galaxies in the process of merging, Arp 220 glows brighte...

The coastal town of Exmouth in Western Australia is due to experience one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena on April 20 2023--a total solar eclipse.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the earliest and most distant galaxies ever spotted by humanity. But why do some of them look so strange and distorted?

As the first space launch of the world's most powerful rocket looms, you can now "light" or "land" your own Starship. SpaceX debuted new models of its stainless steel spacecraft.

The JUICE spacecraft has captured stunning space "selfies" as it departs Earth and embarks on its eight-year voyage to Jupiter.

Scientists have found that the distribution of matter in galactic clusters supports the lambda cold dark matter model of cosmology.

Two crew members, including a NASA astronaut, living aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk Friday, April 28, to continue installation of hardware to support future power system upgrades.

Testing the possibility of models of gravity different from general relativity may be closer to home than we think. In a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, a team of researchers has proposed that we might be a...

A new era of exploration at Jupiter’s moons began last week with the launch of the European Space Agency’s Juice, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. This mission will visit three of Jupiter's largest moons -- Europa, Ca...