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A DARPA responsive launch competition that started two years ago came to an end March 2 without a winner as the sole remaining team was forced to scrub their final launch attempt less than a minute before liftoff. SpaceN...

A team of researchers from Plex Corporation, Bruker Scientific LLC and Harvard University has found evidence of a protein inside of a meteorite. They have written a paper describing their findings and have uploaded it to...

Spaceflight startup Astra scrubbed a planned orbital launch attempt of its Rocket 3.0 on Monday (March 2), meaning the company will not win the $12 million DARPA Launch Challenge.

Evidence from an ancient section of the Earth’s crust suggest that Earth was once a water-world, some three billion years ago. If true, it’ll mean scientists need to reconsider some thinking around exoplanets and hab...

Image: Testing one, two and now, three. Radiofrequency testing has begun on the first Orion spacecraft that will fly around the Moon for the Artemis 1 mission, just two weeks after thermal and environmental tests were co...

PredaSAR, a Florida startup led by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, raised $25 million in seed funding for its plan to build a constellation of at least 44 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. SpaceNews.co...

NASA will unveil the name of the agency's next Mars rover, currently known as Mars 2020, during a live event on NASA Television at 1:30 p.m. EST Thursday, March 5, followed by a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. about th...

NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commerc...

One year ago today, SpaceX took a giant leap forward for private spaceflight with the launch of its first Crew Dragon to the International Space Station and the company is celebrating that feat with an epic new video.

NASA has signed Space Act Agreements with 17 companies in the aviation industry to advance plans for the first in a series of technology demonstrations known as the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Grand Challenge.

Our universe is dominated by mysterious and invisible forms of matter and energy that have yet to be fully (or adequately) understood.

The contract had been previously given to Inmarsat but had to be re-competed after Peraton successfully protested the award. SpaceNews.com

The ongoing coronavirus epidemic has so far has only a limited effect on the space industry, with few cancellations or other major interruptions. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX has fired up the Falcon 9 rocket that will ferry the company's next cargo resupply mission for NASA into space Friday, March 6.

Update: we’re happy to announce that Analog Sky is making a special offer just for Universe Today readers for its new giant binoculars. A unique, crowd-sourced, 3D-printed telescope is poised to revolutionize how we lo...

The 3D-printed thrust chamber assembly of the methane-fuelled M10 rocket engine has passed its first series of hot firing tests. TheM10 engine will power the upper stage of future Vega evolutions from 2025.

While the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting asteroid Bennu, one of the instruments on board happened to catch a glimpse of a black hole 'out of the corner of its eye,' so to speak. While intently focusing on the asteroi...

The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is beginning to affect major upcoming space and science gatherings.

You can now plant your flag or add your tag to the outside of the International Space Station thanks to a space memorabilia company.

Astronomers have succeeded in recording sunlight shining through the Earth's atmosphere in a manner similar to the study of distant exoplanets. During the extraordinary occasion of a lunar eclipse, the Large Binocular Te...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have discovered a new eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6341 (or M92). The newly found object received des...

Cosmos co-creator discusses communicating her dream for humanity --