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Believe it or not there are some people out there who think traditional rocket science is too easy and want more of a challenge. A group at the University of Illinois (UI) decided to up the difficulty a bit by attempting...

Lockheed Martin received a $187.5 million contract and York Space Systems a $94 million contract for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 0. SpaceNews

PLD Space has taken a step closer to qualifying its Teprel-B rocket engine that will power the company's suborbital Mirua 1 rocket. SpaceNews

It turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks. With a recent upgrade to a 50-year-old radio telescope, astronomers have spotted nearly a dozen of a rare class of quasars, ones capable of flickering in less than an hou...

An Ancient Voyage Earth is on a journey... While our planet orbits the Sun each year – a billion kilometers – our entire Solar System is drifting through the Milky Way Galaxy making one rotation every 225-250 million...

DoD report: China intends to pursue ASAT weapons capable of destroying satellites up to geosynchronous Earth orbit. SpaceNews

NASA has awarded a contract to Cornell Technical Services LLC of Columbia, Maryland, for evaluations, assessments, studies, services, and other support for the Science Office for Mission Assessments (SOMA) at the agency'...

Commercial satellite operator Intelsat, still operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, is purchasing a large chunk of inflight connectivity provider Gogo's business for $400 million. SpaceNews

If you're a Star Trek fan, you may think the above image portrays the “Nexus” from the movie Star Trek: Generations. In the film, the Nexus was a ribbon-like extra-dimensional realm that exists outside of normal spac...

Astronomers have known for two decades that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, but the physics of this expansion remains a mystery. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa have made ...

The Sun is our star and has a profound influence on our planet, life, and civilization. By studying the magnetism on the Sun, we can understand its influence on Earth and minimize damage of satellites and technological i...

An asteroid the size of a jumbo jet will have a close encounter with Earth today (Sept. 1), zooming past our planet at about one-third the average distance to the moon.

NASA is looking for leaders for one of the best jobs on Earth for human spaceflight - including missions to the Moon - the position of flight director in mission control at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Media accreditation is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman's 14th commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) astronomers have detected 18 very metal-poor stars in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. They found that one of the stars from the sample has an extremely low metallicity, slightly ...

Image: What looks like an engine made its way to space and back last November. While the hardware of the Perwaves experiment will not end up in your car, results from this research could lead to more efficient and carbon...

Mars is often a very dynamic place due to its atmosphere and how it interacts with the surface. At present, we're in the "windy season" in Gale crater. This means that we're seeing increased aeolian (meaning "related to ...

A study using commercial aircraft has found that ozone has increased over the Northern Hemisphere over the past 20 years.

The crewed lunar rover being developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Toyota now has a (nick)name.

SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company is making "good progress" on its next-generation Starship launch vehicle despite delays in the schedule of test flights of the vehicle. SpaceNews

Estonia celebrates its fifth anniversary in ESA after becoming ESA's 21st Member State on 1 September 2015.

Electrifying research by Clemson University scientists could lead to the creation of lighter, faster-charging batteries suitable for powering a spacesuit, or even a Mars rover....