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On its third mission this year, Ariane 5 lofted more than 10.7 tonnes - its heaviest commercial cargo so far.

US space firm Blue Origin conducted a successful fourth test Sunday of its reusable New Shepard rocket, which dropped back to Earth for a flawless upright landing seen on a live webcast.

After successfully being lofted into suborbital space with three student payloads aboard, the capsule returned to Earth. The private spaceflight company tested a failure of one of the 3 main parachutes during descent.

The "New Shepard" rocket successfully landed shortly after launching three student payloads into suborbital space. This was the 4th flight of the same hardware, proving its re-usability once again.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has done it again. The private spaceflight company launched and landed a reusable rocket for the fourth time Sunday (June 19), with the typically secretive firm streaming live video of...

The "New Shepard" rocket successfully launched three student payloads into suborbital space. The rocket and capsule landed a few minutes after separation.

"This discovery marks a significant milestone, highlighting what only Hubble can accomplish," said John Grunsfeld, recently retired assistant administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. "In ...

Caltech researchers have detected, for the first time, a chiral molecule outside of our solar system, bringing them one step closer to understanding one of the most puzzling mysteries of the early origins of life. By dis...

When you spend a lot of time and effort to send a spacecraft to another planet, it's a nice benchmark when that spacecraft first spots it. The image above is Mars, as seen by the Trace Gas Orbiter, part of the European S...

On June 17, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden gave the keynote address at the Aviation 2016 conference in Washington....

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket launcher successfully sent two telecoms satellites, one for a US-based communications service provider and one for an Indonesian bank, into space on Saturday.

The Milky Way’s home supercluster of galaxies is far bigger than previously known --

(Kyoto University) A Japanese team have digitalized magnetogram recordings taken before direct observations by satellites became available. The analog recordings, taken for 72 years since the early 20th century, provide ...