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Elon Musk's latest space-related hammer throw is to call for it to be deorbited as soon as two years from now.

NASA picked SpaceX for the launch of a space telescope dedicated to searching for near Earth objects. The post NASA selects SpaceX to launch NEO Surveyor appeared first on SpaceNews.

Top Democrats on the House Science Committee want details about the work DOGE is doing at NASA, calling the lack of transparency "ominous and unacceptable." The post House members seek more details on DOGE activities at ...

HELSINKI -- China launched a new communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit Saturday to replace the aging ChinaSat-10 spacecraft. A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 7:11 a.m. Eastern […] The post Chi...

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially discovering life as we know it? This is what a recent study presented at the American Geophysical Uni...

On Episode 149 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss a potentially hazardous asteroid, SpaceX's plans in the Bahamas, and the debate surrounding the International Space Station.

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it’s so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something called 21cm radiation. Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the univers...

Over the past two decades, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, driving sea levels to rise at an accelerated pace, according to a decades-long comprehensive analysis.

To construct a warp drive, we would need negative mass, which doesn't appear to exist in the universe and would violate everything we know about motion, momentum and energy.

There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in less than eight years. But even if this asteroid is hurtling our way, humanity is now able to defend itself against...

Conflicting signals are painting a confusing picture for a space economy caught between short-term caution and long-term optimism. The post Boom or bust? Making sense of conflicting signals in the space economy appeared ...

NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to...

BAE Systems won a $230.6 million contract to deliver spacecraft for NOAA's Lagrange 1 Series space weather project. The post BAE wins $230.6 million contract for space weather program appeared first on SpaceNews.

Learn more about the finding of over 550 fossils from horses, armadillos, and other animals in a sinkhole in Florida's Steinhatchee River.

Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have the answer.