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NASA has delayed the next ISS spacewalk until at least late July while it investigates a spacesuit leak that cut a recent EVA short.

The first astronauts to fly Boeing's troubled Starliner are definitely not "stranded" at the International Space Station, NASA insisted Friday despite having no clear timeframe for bringing them home.

Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the Universe, second only to black holes. Like black holes, neutron stars are what remains after a star reaches the end of its life cycle and undergoes gravitational collaps...

NASA and Boeing plan to keep the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at the International Space Station well into July to conduct additional tests, while emphasizing its two-person crew is not "stranded" in space. The post Star...

The early Universe is a puzzling and--in many ways--still-unknown place. The first billion years of cosmic history saw the explosive creation of stars and the growth of the first galaxies. It’s also a time when the ear...

Nine months have passed since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returned its samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth. The samples are some of the Solar System’s primordial, pristine materials. They’ve made their way into scientists’ ...

European weather satellite operator Eumetsat has shifted the upcoming launch of a weather satellite from an Ariane 6 to a Falcon 9, a move that surprised and frustrated European space officials. The post Eumetsat moves w...

Discover the strange world of rogue planets left to wander the cosmos untethered to any star.

On Episode 117 of This Week In Space, Rod and guest co-host Isaac Arthur talk with Evan Jensen of ICON Build about 3D printing habitats on the moon and one day Mars.

The first-ever stellar tanning salon just opened in Germany, giving a few lucky folks the chance to see what it would be like to bake on an alien beach.

In 2020, astronomers discovered a large hourglass-shaped structure in or near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Dubbed "eROSITA bubbles," there have been a few different hypotheses proposed to explain their precise nat...

A review of "A Quiet Place: Day One" from director Michael Sarnoski, which reveals how Earth went quiet following a terrifying alien invasion.

It's one of the most advanced tripods in Benro's catalog -- we're testing the Mach3 to see how well it performs for various photographic styles, including astro.

Approximately half a dozen launches supporting NRO's proliferated architecture are planned for 2024 The post SpaceX launches second batch of satellites for NRO’s proliferated constellation appeared first on SpaceNews.

Two NASA astronauts will stay longer at the International Space Station as engineers troubleshoot problems on Boeing's new space capsule that cropped up on the trip there.

Ground-based telescopes ignore "a huge swath" of the inner solar system because the sky is simply too bright The post Prize winner wants to detect asteroids coming from sun’s direction appeared first on SpaceNews.

In the coming years, NASA and other space agencies plan to extend the reach of human exploration. This will include creating infrastructure on the Moon that will allow for crewed missions on a regular basis. This infrast...