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Gen. Chance Saltzman announced the Space Force will experiment with a new command structure where a unit is responsible for all aspects of a mission area, including training, procurement and operations. The post Space Fo...

The newfound Comet P1 (Nishimura) passes its closest point to Earth on Tuesday (Sept. 12). Here's how to see it this week before it's gone for 400 years.

These black holes could have also been ejected from the star cluster they live within.

While the UK has been experiencing warm autumnal weather, a team of planetary scientists has found that Saturn's late northern summer is experiencing a cooling trend, as huge planetary-scale flows of air have reversed di...

Phase Four's Maxwell Block 2 radio-frequency thruster has been demonstrated on a commercial satellite. The post Phase Four demonstrates Maxwell Block 2 thruster in orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.

An exclusive interview with astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson for his new book, "To Infinity and Beyond," released on Sept. 12, 2023.

Intelsat expects to decide whether to proceed with plans for a medium Earth orbit constellation early next year after requesting proposals from nine satellite makers, an executive for the geostationary fleet operator sai...

As it turns out, the lectern from which President John F. Kennedy proclaimed 'We choose to go to the moon' has been rightly on display for 30 years, contrary to a report that it was a fake.

In Israel, a lab fine-tuned the process needed to concoct a synthetic human embryo, which could be used to study birth defects and more.

When you launch humanity's most powerful telescope, you expect results. The JWST has delivered excellent results by detecting ancient galaxies, identifying chemicals in exoplanet atmospheres, and peering into star-formin...

In the past few decades, several phenomena have led to excited speculation in the scientific community that they might indeed be indications that there is extraterrestrial life. It will no doubt happen again.

According to the Milankovitch cycles, Earth should actually be experiencing a cooling period right now -- but the consequences of humanity's carbon emissions have completely swamped that eons-old relationship between the...

Our galaxy has about 200 Globular Clusters (GCs,) and most of them are in the galaxy’s halo. Astronomers think most GCs were taken from dwarf galaxies and merged with the Milky Way due to the galaxy’s powerful gravit...

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight.

Modern instruments like ALMA have revealed newly forming stars surrounded by accretion disks. These images are so sensitive you can even see the gaps in the disk where new planets form, right? Maybe not. According to a n...

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara will launch toward the ISS in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft no earlier than Sept. 15. Her crew will relieve another Soyuz crewwho have been waiting six extra months to go home.

The rate at which the universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos. However, a persistent difference called the...

Support for a crowdfunded 'Space: 1999' documentary has already been off the charts, including series star Barbara Bain, original Eagle designer, Brian Johnson and astronaut Charlie Duke.

The small dot moving against the background of stars is the first view from NASA's Lucy spacecraft of the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, the first of 10 asteroids that the spacecraft will visit on its 12-year voyage of di...

On Sept. 10, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly fired its ACS (attitude control system) thrusters to point itself toward Earth, putting it on course to release its sample capsule, carrying rocks and dust from asteroid ...

NASA wants astronauts to thrive on the moon, Mars and in deep space. A new survey outlines key challenges to solve over the next decade.

A NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are set to launch to the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 15. The U.S. space agency will provide full coverage of launch and crew's arrival at the microgravity la...