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China aims to launch its first planetary defense mission by 2030, to showcase the skills needed to nudge a dangerous asteroid away from Earth.

Even a few spacecraft in orbit around the moon can create dozens of warnings of potential collisions that require several maneuvers to avoid. The post Lunar spacecraft receive dozens of collision warnings appeared first ...

Retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Engle died July 10, surrounded by his family at home in Houston. Among his many honors, he is the only astronaut to pilot both the X-15 and space shuttle. He was 91...

Armada has raised an extra $40 million through a Microsoft-led funding round to develop mobile data centers tailored for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, the San Francisco-based startup announced July 11. The post Mi...

General Atomics will provide three years of operational services for two Electro-Optical Weather System, or EWS, satellites. The post General Atomics to build second Space Force weather satellite appeared first on SpaceN...

Planetary scientists are proposing a new definition of a planet to replace one that many researchers view as sun-centric and outdated. The current definition--established in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (...

Dawn Aerospace says it has received approvals from the New Zealand government for a new round of supersonic flight tests of a rocket-powered suborbital spaceplane. The post Dawn Aerospace gets approvals for supersonic ro...

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If you've just watched 'A Quiet Place: Day One' and have been wondering about the nature of the aliens and their origin, here's all we know.

A few days before they left Skylab on Feb. 8, 1974, the final crew to occupy the station raised its altitude, hoping to keep it in orbit until a future space shuttle could revisit it. But higher than predicted solar acti...

"We have a group photo of my first project here, ASTRO-H, and that one means a lot to me because I came [to that NASA project] fresh off the street. I was super scared and intimidated. It was me and three other [technici...

We love this brick-built space-faring raccoon.

A new study suggests an earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.5 or 8 shook the Indian subcontinent 2,500 years ago, changing the course of the Ganges.

It's time to take a cosmic road trip using light as the highway and visit four stunning destinations across space. The vehicles for this space get-away are NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope.

A "guest star," briefly seen in 1181, was created by colliding dead stars.

Team members are installing pedestals aboard NASA's Pegasus barge to hold and secure the massive core stage of NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, indicating NASA barge crews are nearly ready for its first delivery ...

2024 will be a very good year to watch for the Perseids, because bright moonlight will not interfere.

The qualities and behavior of dark matter, the invisible "glue" of the universe, continue to be shrouded in mystery. Though galaxies are mostly made of dark matter, understanding how it is distributed within a galaxy off...

It's time to take a cosmic road trip using light as the highway and visit four stunning destinations across space. The vehicles for this space get-away are NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope....

Mammoths share remarkable genetic similarities with contemporary elephants -- with some notable differences.

The European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite sent back its first images; they should be able to help scientists better study Earth's energy balance.

The ancient headdress may never return to Mexico due to its delicate condition.