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Space tourism company Virgin Galactic on Monday announced a partnership with engine-maker Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial airplane that flies at three times the speed of sound.

When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Ingenuity may weigh only abou...

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A relieved SpaceX CEO Elon Musk welcomed home the first NASA astronauts to fly to space on his company's Crew Dragon vehicle.

Army cadets at West Point learn how to build small satellites and rockets. Some also are considering competing to be a NASA astronaut. SpaceNews

The astronauts' exit from the capsule was slightly delayed by noxious gas, but they ultimately made it back to Earth unscathed.

Scolese said the NRO "will be able to do more with smaller satellites." SpaceNews

The Moon mission that never happened illustrates the difference between what we can do, and what we choose to do.

President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama hailed SpaceX's first splashdown of NASA astronauts on Sunday (Aug. 2)

A cubesat launched earlier this year has successfully tested a version of an instrument that will fly on a larger NASA mission in development. SpaceNews

NASA astrophysicists and engineers are adapting detectors used by earthbound supercolliders and creating them the same way electronics companies produce all modern consumer devices, including cell phones and laptops.

Early Mars may not have been quite the warm, wet paradise scientists have hoped for -- not if the valleys scarring its surface work the same way as their counterparts here on Earth do.

Swarm Technologies is working with Exolaunch of Germany to send 24 SpaceBee satellites into orbit on the SpaceX Falcon 9 small satellite rideshare mission scheduled to launch in December. SpaceNews

Ball Aerospace says it has successfully flight-tested a green propellant developed by the Air Force, and is lowering the satellite's altitude so that it deorbits in the coming weeks. SpaceNews

Astra was poised to send a rocket to Earth orbit for the first time ever last night (Aug. 2) -- until a boat got in the way.

Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes they have shown that passive black hole ...

The French government awarded more than one million euros ($1.17 million) to Tououse-based Mecano ID to accelerate development of a small satellite deployer. SpaceNews

Planet-forming environments can be much more complex and chaotic than previously expected. This is evidenced by a new image of the star RU Lup, made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Virgin Orbit said Monday it has determined what caused the failure of its debut rocket launch and is working toward a second flight that will carry small satellites for NASA.

NASA's Lucy mission, led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), has achieved an important milestone by passing its System Integration Review and clearing the way for spacecraft assembly. This NASA Discovery Program clas...

The first-ever crew-carrying commercial orbital mission is a major spaceflight milestone --

When two neutron stars slam together, the result is sometimes a black hole that swallows all but the gravitational evidence of the collision. However, in a series of simulations, an international team of researchers incl...