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The headquarters of former Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs will be phased out. The Space Force HQ is being stood up in the Pentagon. SpaceNews.com

ESA's Solar Orbiter will cross through the tails of Comet ATLAS during the next few days. Although the recently launched spacecraft was not due to be taking science data at this time, mission experts have worked to ensur...

Join us on Wednesday 3 June for a live streamed conversation with European experts on how space can help with post-millennials' education and social lives.

You don't need a proven green thumb to give it a shot. Expert horticulturalists share their top tips for planting sprouts at home.

Two NASA veterans Nicole Stott and Cady Coleman -- ponder humanity's future in space, as well as the role women will play in it.

For the merger to go forward CPI must sell off its subsidiary ASC Signal Division. SpaceNews.com

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) play a major role in galaxy evolution. Astronomers from SRON and RuG have now used a record-setting sample of galaxies to confirm that galaxy mergers have a positive effect on igniting AGNs....

Intelsat is asking its bankruptcy court for authorization to modify a $50 million loan to Spaceflight Industries' Earth-observation business BlackSky that could become a snag in Spaceflight's sale of its launch rideshare...

For the child inside all of us space-enthusiasts, there might be nothing better than discovering a new type of explosion. (Except maybe bigger rockets.) And it looks like that’s what’s happened. Three objects discove...

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype exploded just after an engine test Friday (May 30), erupting in a dramatic fireball at the spaceflight company's South Texas proving grounds. 

A SpaceX Starship prototype was destroyed in an explosion May 29 shortly after what initially appeared to be a successful static-fire test. SpaceNews.com

SES proposed a low Earth orbit constellation to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that, if built, would make the company an operator of satellites in low, medium and geostationary orbits. SpaceNews.com

New technologies are being developed that will ensure astronauts have plenty of drinking water and food wherever resupply missions are not readily available The post How to Make the Food and Water Mars-Bound Astronauts W...

There is an Earth-sized planet only four light years from Earth. Whether it has life is yet to be known. The post Powerful Telescope Confirms There’s an Earth-Sized World Orbiting Proxima Centauri appeared first on Uni...

Russia's space agency says it will send a team of specialists to South America to investigate the leak of toxic fuel from a Russian rocket stage at the Guiana Space Center.

SpaceX pressed ahead with its second attempt to launch astronauts for NASA--a historic first for a private company--but more stormy weather threatened more delays.

One of the most striking features on Earth are the curious flows of lava as it cools, forming undulating ropes of rock known by the Hawaiian word pahoehoe. New research simulating conditions on Mars now reveals that the ...

The "worm," NASA's former logo that was retired 30 years ago, has taken over the first mission to fly astronauts to orbit from a U.S.-based launchpad in nearly a decade.

Weather was top of mind at a prelaunch briefing for NASA's first crewed launch on a SpaceX capsule, dubbed Demo-2 and currently scheduled for tomorrow (May 30).

This week, European engineers hot-fire tested a fully 3D-printed thrust chamber that could one day power the upper stages for rockets. The chamber has just three parts, and was constructed using additive layer manufactur...

The speed of light is the absolute fastest thing in the universe, clocking in at a whopping 299,792,458 meters per second. At that speed, a beam of light could travel around the Earth’s entire equator in a mere 0.13 se...

Workers are returning to Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana to resume preparations for Vega and Ariane 5 launches. Construction of the new Ariane 6 launch pad has also restarted.