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The sacred belief that finely ground espresso beans are supreme doesn't hold up to scientific testing.

The second satellite in the European Data Relay System has reached its intended orbit and completed its in-orbit tests. Dubbed the "SpaceDataHighway" by its commercial operator Airbus, EDRS uses innovative laser technolo...

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Firefly Aerospace says it had an "anomaly" during a Jan. 22 static-fire test of the first stage of its Alpha rocket under development, an incident that prompted evacuations and road closures in the vicinity in the test s...

The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space.

Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Nightingale, OSIRI...

MRO has been observing Mars for 6 Mars Years (MY), each of which lasts for 687 Earth days....

Which camp are you in: volcanoes? Or asteroids? When it comes to the extinction of the dinosaurs, science has whittled it down to those two possibilities. The asteroid strike has been the leading candidate for quite some...

SpaceX has asked the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California to hold a hearing on March 2 to consider the company's protest against the U.S. Air Force. SpaceNews.com

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named Dennis Andrucyk director of its Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, effective immediately. Andrucyk has been serving as the acting director of Goddard since De...

While "Star Trek" fans worldwide are rejoicing at the return of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, the actor who plays him says his younger self would have been surprised to reprise the role.

An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Cambridge have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere o...

Boeing has withdrawn from Experimental Spaceplane, a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program designed to increase the nation's access to space.

One of the most luminous stellar explosions ever detected may now be explained. It came from the detonation of a dead star within the dense shell of matter ejected from that sun's companion star, a new study suggests.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon astronaut taxis may not always cap their missions with ocean splashdowns.

One technique that could help alleviate the space-junk scourge just passed a key off-Earth test.

Swedish and Japanese researchers have, after ten years, found an explanation to the peculiar emission lines seen in one of the brightest supernovae ever observed--SN 2006gy. At the same time they found an explanation for...

NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) scientists will discuss Solar Orbiter, the agencies' collaboration set to launch next month on its journey to the Sun, during two media teleconferences on Monday, Jan. 27.

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Betelgeuse keeps getting dimmer, and everyone is wondering what exactly that means. The star will go supernova at the end of its life, but that's not projected to happen for tens of thousands of years or so. So what's ca...

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan will exit the International Space Station airlock together for the fourth time Saturday 25 January. It is the ninth spacewalk for Expedition 61 - the most spa...

The second satellite in the European Data Relay System has reached its intended orbit and completed its in-orbit tests.