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ESA's Prometheus is the precursor of ultra-low-cost rocket propulsion that is flexible enough to fit a fleet of new launch vehicles for any mission and will be potentially reusable.

An artificial intelligence (AI) system analyzing data from the Gaia space telescope has identified more than 2,000 large protostars, young stars that are still forming and could hold clues to the origin of the stars in o...

René Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research already made the scientific community take notice when he and his team discovered no fewer than 18 previously overlooked exoplanets in the data from th...

A NASA airborne astronomy observatory that has been grounded for nearly three months by the coronavirus pandemic may resume flights later this month as advocates for the program address another cancellation threat. Space...

Astronomers who have spent the last year worried about the effect that SpaceX's Starlink satellites will have on their observations say they are increasingly concerned about the impact from other proposed megaconstellati...

The campaign to reelect President Donald Trump launched a new "Make Space Great Again" video ad this week that has surprised NASA officials and sparked an online petition against the politicization of space.

There’s an unusual paradox hampering research into parts of the Milky Way. Dense gas blocks observations of the galactic core, and it can be difficult to observe in visible light from our vantage point. But distant gal...

Three months after the coronavirus pandemic brought large swaths of the global economy to a near halt, Asia-Pacific satellite operators say they are still trying to identify a new normal. SpaceNews.com

Silicon Valley startup Momentus announced a contract June 4 with OrbAstro, a small United Kingdom company developing hardware and software to enable satellites to operate in flocks or constellations. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX has won NASA's "capture the flag" contest for commercial space companies racing to be the first to launch astronauts to the International Space Station.

NASA has awarded the Marshall Operations, Systems, Services and Integration (MOSSI) contract to SGT LLC of Greenbelt, Maryland.

Amazing things happen in the day-to-day sky, often unseen and unwitnessed in our normal routine. Just such a 'non-event' happened this week, when Venus reached inferior conjunction between the Earth and the Sun on its ra...

For generations, astronomers have dreamed of building telescopes on the lunar farside.

Mars only has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. They’re strange, for moons, little more than lumpy, potato-shaped chunks of rock. They’re much too small for self-gravitation to have made them round. And one of them, Deim...

The three NASA astronauts and two Roscosmos cosmonauts that comprise the Expedition 63 crew are keeping the International Space Station humming with space research....

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is further probing the remnants of a massive space explosion visible from Earth 3.5 million years ago.

Among the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, KOI-456.04 is something special: less than twice the size of Earth, it orbits a sun-like star. And it does so with a star-planet distance that could permit planetary surface te...

German astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a cataclysmic variable (CV) star known as PTF1J2224+17. Results of the observational campaign confirm that this object is a polar, as suggested by previous st...

Watch live Join the event on 5 June at 11:00 CEST, where ESA and the European Commission will present their new dashboard: Rapid action in response to coronavirus with Earth observation

SpaceX's famous Falcon 9 rocket has now been flying for a decade.

A new virtual reality experience lets you fly closely, but safely, towards the supermassive black hole embedded in the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

With an epic plot twist that was shrouded in secrecy, this was the equivalent of an "Avengers" movie four decades ahead of its time.