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Firefly Aerospace's CEO Tom Markusic is refuting reports of potentially nefarious ties to his company and suggestions of questionable behavior.

With just a week before the first scheduled launch in DARPA's responsive launch competition, the agency is tweaking the rules to allow the sole remaining company to perform both launches from the same spaceport. SpaceNew...

The Universe is full of galaxies of various shapes; some galaxies have spiral arms and others don't. Why do galaxies show such diversity? Galaxies are thought to grow by interacting and merging with other galaxies; and t...

The Red Planet briefly disappeared behind the moon for skywatchers in North America on Tuesday (Feb. 18), providing a rare celestial treat for early risers and astrophotographers.

The Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC kicked off a $350,000 national public relations campaign. SpaceNews.com

Returning American astronauts to the moon in 2024, and then sending pioneers on to Mars in the next decade, remains a top priority for the Trump administration, Vice President Mike Pence stressed.

Russia's space agency said Wednesday that two cosmonauts scheduled to launch to the International Space Station will be replaced with alternates for medical reasons.

A new technique for creating lighter and cheaper radiation shielding involves a secret ingredient: rust! The post A New Technique to Make Lighter Radiation Shielding For Spacecraft: Rust. appeared first on Universe Today...

When planning for human moon landing missions in the 2020s, NASA needs detailed budgetary estimates to get a better chance of securing Congress' support.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has sent back its first measurements from space, confirming the successful deployment of the boom that carries many of its sun-gazing instruments.

The Carl Sagan Institute released a new video to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the "Pale Blue Dot" photo.

ESA is calling on ambitious start-ups to join the new ESA Start-up Competition. This opportunity is open to entrepreneurs in all ESA Member States that are developing innovative services and/or products using space techn...

It's no secret that planet Earth is occasionally greeted by rocks from space that either explode in the atmosphere or impact on the surface. In addition, Earth regularly experiences meteor showers whenever it passes thro...

The head of NOAA's space weather office used a recent hearing to caution that a failure of an aging spacecraft in the next few years could leave the agency "hurting a little bit" in its ability to monitor solar activity....

Hungarian astronomers have observed a pre-main sequence (PMS) binary star known as DQ Tau using a set of space telescopes and ground-based facilities, finding numerous variability phenomena in this system, including ener...

Professor Clem Pryke and his group are on their way back to Minnesota from the South Pole in Antarctica after completing installation of the new BICEP Array Telescope. Over the next few years this specialized radio teles...

On April 13, 2029, an icy chunk of space rock, wider than the Eiffel Tower is tall, will streak by Earth at 30 kilometers per second, grazing the planet's sphere of geostationary satellites. It will be the closest approa...

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NASA's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate that at the equator, water makes up...

California-based rocketmaker Astra is scheduled to attempt its first orbital mission Tuesday (Feb. 25), as part of the $12 million DARPA Launch Challenge.

The world's richest man, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is starting an organization devoted to battling climate change -- and he's putting in $10 billion of his own money to get it off the ground.

The private space company Orbex recently allowed cameras into its rocket factory for the first time, offering a glimpse at where the commercial orbital rocket called Prime is being built.