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SpaceX completed its first Cape Canaveral polar launch Aug. 30, delivering an Argentine radar satellite and two smallsats on a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceNews

SpaceX launched an Earth-observation satellite along with two small piggyback payloads today (Aug. 30) and aced yet another rocket touchdown.

Coleman is a member of the Defense Science Board and has held several senior posts in the private sector and academia. SpaceNews

Mission controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center are returning to normal operations today after setting backup control centers at remote locations....

Galactic halos are both more massive and more complicated than scientists realized, according to new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope recently passed another critical milestone - the Ground Segment Test - and is on track for its scheduled launch in Oct of 2021. The post James Webb is Working Perfectly! On the Ground. Next...

ULA statement: "Initial indications were with a ground system, and we are working to confirm the exact cause." SpaceNews

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is pioneering a new solution to the problem of spring cleaning on the moon: Why not zap away the grime using a beam of electrons?

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A long-retired NASA satellite burned up in Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, the agency has confirmed.

HELSINKI -- China is making progress with a spaceport to facilitate sea-based launch activity and development of rockets, satellites and related applications. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC), the ...

Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster, located 5.9 billion light-years away in the constellation Phoenix. This is an importan...

An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a supermassive black hole residing at the core of a galaxy that is accreting material. The accretion occurs in the vicinity of the hot torus around the nucleus, and it can generate rap...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers from Japan have probed a nearby starburst galaxy known as NGC 1482. They detected a molecular gas outflow that could be essential to improving th...

A golden age may be coming for human spaceflight research as more astronauts than ever fly to the International Space Station aboard commercial crew vehicles and through private companies.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is one step closer to getting up close and personal with a host of strange space rocks as assembly begins.

Hair may record the information swallowed by the gravitational monsters.

While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, located around 2,400 light-year...

Solar filaments are large magnetic structures confining cool and dense plasma suspended in the hot and tenuous corona.

Tune in to ESA Web TV from 02:36 BST / 03:36 CEST on 2 September to watch the return to flight of Vega on its debut rideshare mission dedicated to light satellites.

Rocket Lab successfully launched a radar imaging satellite for Capella Space Aug. 30 in the first flight of its Electron rocket since a failure nearly two months earlier. SpaceNews

The International Space Station was orbiting above Brazil when an external high-definition camera pictured the Marine Extractive Reserve of Tracuateua near the mouth of the Amazon River located on the northeast coast of ...