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Just like your smartphone navigation app can instantly analyze information from many sources to suggest the best route to follow, a NASA-developed resource is now making data available to help the aviation industry do th...

SpaceX says it will not be able to recover the 20 Starlink satellites left in a very low orbit after a malfunction of a Falcon 9 upper stage on a July 11 launch. The post Starlink satellites lost on Falcon 9 upper stage ...

The US military recently launched a groundbreaking initiative to strengthen ties with the commercial space industry.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of intertwined galaxies glowing in the infrared.

An exclusive interview with director Nick Castle for the 40th anniversary of "The Last Starfighter," which premiered on July 13, 1984.

On Episode 119 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with John Crassidis from the University of Buffalo about orbital debris and its dangers.

iSpace's seventh Hyperbola-1 rocket suffered an anomaly on Wednesday (July 10), dragging the launch company's success rate below 50%.

We think of galaxies as ancient. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, formed 13.6 billion years ago, and the James Webb Space Telescope has allowed us to peer back to some of the first galaxies in the early universe. But are g...

Dark matter is curious stuff! As the name suggests, it's dark making it notoriously difficult to study. Although it's is invisible, it influences stars in a galaxy through gravity. Now, a team of astronomers have used th...

A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company's internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up.

Two recent studies published in The Astrophysical Journal discuss findings regarding solar flare properties and a new classification index and the Sun's magnetic field, specifically what's called solar magnetic reconnect...

In a new movie titled "Fly Me to the Moon," a marketing consultant played by Scarlett Johansson uses Tang breakfast drink, Crest toothpaste and Omega watches to give a publicity boost to NASA's Apollo moon program. The...

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