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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb believes he has found pieces of the first known interstellar meteorite. But others have their doubts, and the debate is turning ugly.

Engineers and scientists have shipped NASA's ComPair instrument to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ahead of its scheduled August flight early in NASA's 2023 fall balloon campaign.

SpaceX launched 15 Starlink satellites into orbit overnight, steadily adding to the company's broadband megaconstellation. A few hours after liftoff, they posted these gorgeous launch photos.

The discovery of three carved bones from 27,000 years ago could rewrite the history of the Americas, or it could join a heap of similar discoveries that fell short of such a grand goal.

NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services, LLC, of Fulton, Maryland, to provide mission and flight crew operations support for the International Space Station and future human space exploration.

The more astronomers look at the early Universe, the more discoveries they make. Some of those finds change what they thought they knew about the infancy of the cosmos. For example, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

NASA and the Department of Education, in support of STEM and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives, are hosting a competition to engage students at HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universitie...

The Space Force is using a software platform developed by Anduril Industries to integrate data from a decades-old network of space surveillance sensors. The post Space Force using Anduril software to integrate U.S. space...

Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and Boston University have successfully established a connection between the rotation rates of stars in star clusters and those outside them, so-called f...

NASA's ambitious asteroid collision mission might've created a swarm of boulders filled with key scientific information.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant "relaxed" galaxy cluster to date--the farthest cluster ever spotted that is not being disrupted by violent collisions with other clusters of galaxies. This finding is paving t...

Water is essential for life, but for astrophysicists, it represents something more. Researchers look at water in galaxies, its distribution and in particular its changes of state from ice to vapor, as important markers i...

Space telescopes use traditional polished mirrors like ground telescopes, which are heavy, unwieldy, and expensive to build. A new type of flexible telescope lens could be lighter and larger, creating space telescopes th...

Thermal satellite data startup constellr raised 17 million euros ($18.93) in an extension of the German company's seed funding round. The post Thermal data startup constellr raises 17 million euros appeared first on Spac...

Wayward asteroids present a real collision hazard to Earth. Scientists estimate that an asteroid measuring several miles across smashed into Earth 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs, among other forms of li...

The grandfather of pop culture conventions is a somewhat scaled-down affair this year, for a variety of reasons.

Scientists will attempt a first-of-its-kind guided safe reentry to Earth's atmosphere with the European Space Agency wind satellite Aeolus as it heads home at increasing speed.

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large swaths of space.

Fighter pilot Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian astronaut on the Artemis 2 mission, talks about how the T-38 supersonic fleet 'can kill you' and why that's important for space training.

When the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally slammed into asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, telescopes around the world and those in space watched as it happened, and continue...

A Pew Research Center report reveals more than half of Americans expects to have access to space, but barely a third would be willing to make the trip themselves.

The universe is full of powerful supermassive black holes that create powerful jets of high-energy particles, creating sources of extreme brightness in the vastness of space. When one of those jets points directly at Ear...