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Brig. Gen. Cothern: What type of launch vehicles will be needed "depends on the threats." SpaceNews

Northrop Grumman statement: "We have chosen not to continue development of the OmegA launch system at this time." SpaceNews

A team of researchers has found evidence suggesting that the regolith material on which the Chinese rover Yutu-2 is situated consists mainly of material that was thrown there when an asteroid struck the moon nearby. In t...

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NASA's Juno mission orbiting Jupiter is seeking a long-term extension that would allow the spacecraft to carry out new studies of the planet and some of its largest moons. SpaceNews

Chinese firm Landspace has raised $175 million in series C+ round funding for development of its Zhuque-2 methane-liquid oxygen launch vehicles. SpaceNews

Californians woke up to an alien-looking sky this morning, Wednesday, September 9, 2020. Dense smoke and ash from the ongoing wildfires have been blown high into the upper atmosphere, blocking nearly all sunlight. This i...

You can now attend a full lineup of live astronaut talks and "meet and greet" opportunities -- all without having to leave your home.

A new theory has emerged that the cigar-shaped space rock 'Oumuamua might actually be a dust bunny.

The DoD IG was asked to look at whether the Air Force complied with its own guidelines when it certified SpaceX's rockets to launch national security payloads. SpaceNews

In August 2014, the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its destination, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, after a 10 year journey. Rosetta carried a small companion, the Philae Lander. On November 12th, Philae was sent...

Pseudoscience and genuine archaeological mysteries surround humanity's oldest known temple. But was it the world's first astronomical observatory?

In January 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting asteroid Bennu when the spacecraft's cameras caught something unexpected: Thousands of tiny bits of material, some just the size of marbles, began to bounce off ...

William Shatner wants U.S. Space Force to rename its colonels to captains.

A new study published this month in JGR Planets posits that the major particle ejections off the near-Earth asteroid Bennu may be the consequence of impacts by small, sand-sized particles called meteoroids onto its surfa...

The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible as twin dusty smears in the Southern Hemisphe...

Sunspots are darker regions which often appear on the Sun's surface. They are caused by strong concentrations of magnetic field, and can be as big as the Earth, or even much bigger.

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Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics in Cairo, Egypt, have explored the open star cluster Kronberger 60. Results of the study, published Septe...

This structure is the frame and base for the European Service Module, part of NASA's Orion spacecraft that will return humans to the moon.

On 19 August 2020, the world's largest and longest polar research expedition - known as MOSAiC - reached the North Pole after making an unplanned detour owing to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions. The expedition is n...

Video: 00:01:41 English Advice from an astronaut ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano provides words of wisdom to young people on how investing their time wisely today can help build a better tomorrow. In this video, Luca recall...