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SpaceX has passed another milestone with their Starship prototype after the successful completion of a static fire test The post Another Starship Success! Raptor Engine Fires for 4 Seconds and Nothing Explodes appeared f...

The unit known as Detachment 3 is responsible to rescue astronauts if they have to abort the mission. SpaceNews.com

During a fly-by of Jupiter's moon Europa twenty years ago, NASA's space probe Galileo may have witnessed a plume of water. A group of scientists including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Resear...

Russian astrophysicists have come close to determining the origin of high-energy neutrinos from space. The team compared data on the elusive particles gathered by the Antarctic neutrino observatory IceCube and on long el...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Silicon Valley space mapping startup LeoLabs unveiled a service May 13 to help commercial and government satellite operators avoid collisions with debris and other satellites in low Earth orbit. SpaceNews.com

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a powerful new computer program called Morpheus that can analyze astronomical image data pixel by pixel to identify and classify all of the galaxies and stars in large data set...

Space Force career tracks will include orbital warfare, space electronic warfare and space battle management. SpaceNews.com

Astronauts entered quarantine today (May 13) to prepare for a historic launch to space.

Architects and engineers are working on ways to swap steel and glass for strong, sustainable wood-based materials.

“This moon might look a little funny to you, and that’s because it is an impossible scene,” wrote photographer Andrew McCarthy on Instagram. He was talking about his other-wordly, almost Shakesperean image of the M...

The expansive space sandbox game "Stellaris" just hit its fourth anniversary this week and to celebrate, the game's makers Paradox Interactive have made it free on Steam through May 17.

Researchers recently took a new look at novel locomotory strategies developed for a NASA moon-exploration project, and the results were encouraging.

NASA has ordered 18 more rocket engines for its new Space Launch System megarocket for future Artemis moon missions.

A future rover on Mars may include shape-shifting capabilities. This innovative tech won't quite be like the liquid-metal polymorphing robot from “Terminator 2,” but will solve a problem that have plagued previous ro...

NASA will broadcast the launch of a Japanese cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station beginning at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 20, live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Currently crossing the skies above Earth, Comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN) has the potential to become a more prominent naked eye object by late May or early June. Yet it wasn't discovered by someone looking up at the night sky. I...

The Milky Way and Andromeda rule over a motley collection of a few dozen galaxies.

Sen, a British company that plans to provide ultra-high definition video of Earth, has signed a deal with California-based Momentus to get its first "EarthTV" satellite aloft next summer.

Maxar said the satellite order, which industry analysts say is likely driven by a U.S. effort to clear satellite C-band spectrum to make way for 5G wireless networks, is a "multi-hundred million dollar contract." SpaceNe...

Six SkySat satellites will be evenly split across two Starlink launches on Falcon 9. SpaceNews.com