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Blue Origin will perform tests of the engine it is developing for its Blue Moon lunar lander at a U.S. Air Force Research Lab test site, the two organizations announced Jan. 27. SpaceNews.com

Executive producer Alex Kurtzman spoke to Space.com at the "Star Trek: Picard" world premiere in Hollywood.

Like the orbiting laboratory on which it was modeled, Lego's new International Space Station has a mission patch.

Blue Origin will test the engine for the company's lunar lander at a U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) rocket lab.

The Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm before its release as the International Space Station orbited above west Africa....

ESA is working with Argentina to test telemedicine device Tempus Pro in the harsh conditions of Antarctica as Europe prepares for its next phase of human exploration in space....

The first European device to land on the Moon this decade will be a drill and sample analysis package, and the teams behind it are one step closer to flight as part of Russia's Luna-27 mission....

NASA astronaut and Expedition 61 Flight Engineer Jessica Meir poses in front of the closed hatch of the Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman....

The United States has two choices: compete with developing nations in a new race to the moon, one it could possibly lose; or do what President John F. Kennedy did after the U.S. lost the early rounds of the space race to...

Using the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), Japanese astronomers have investigated the magnetic field structure of the protostellar core Barnard 335. The new observations suggest that the magnetic field of B...

Since the breakthrough in gravitational wave astronomy back in 2015, scientists have been able to detect more than a dozen pairs of closely located black holes--known as binary black holes--by their collisions into each ...

The first European device to land on the moon this decade will be a drill and sample analysis package, and the teams behind it are one step closer to flight as part of Russia's Luna-27 mission.

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that are accreting material onto their hot circumnuclear disks, releasing the energy in bursts of radiation or as particle jets moving ...

In principle, an advanced civilization could use blasts of light from exploding stars to accelerate spacecraft to extraordinary speeds --

Sometimes the forming star swallows up a huge amount of matter, resulting in a burst of activities in the massive star.

It was a big moment for our cosmos when the first stars awoke, but it's an elusive one for scientists.

Video: 00:03:00 ESA's new Sun-explorer, Solar Orbiter, will capture close-up images of never before seen regions of our parent star, including the poles, and study the electromagnetic environment in its vicinity. The cut...

A new generation of ground-based telescopes and proposed space missions could soon reveal their secrets.

(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe) Gravitational waves could contain evidence to prove that neutrino particles reshuffled matter and anti-matter, explains a new study.

(Kazan Federal University) According to the hypothesis, axionic dark matter, provoking structural rearrangement in compact stars with a strong magnetic field, can protect them from a catastrophic loss of magnetic energy,...

(Southwest Research Institute) Using data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP), a team led by Southwest Research Institute identified low-energy particles lurking near the Sun that likely originated from solar wind inter...

(University of New Hampshire) Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unlocked one of the mysteries of how particles from flares on the sun accumulate at early stages in the energization of hazardous radiation...