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China is almost finished its floating spaceport in the Yellow Sea, which will begin making regular launches and servicing rockets in the near future! The post China is Building a Floating Spaceport for Rocket Launches ap...

Virgin Orbit has asked OneWeb's bankruptcy court to require OneWeb pay $46.3 million on a contract termination fee for 35 LauncherOne missions it canceled in 2018 SpaceNews

I wear glasses for astigmatism. But, as a stargazer with a visual impediment, turns out I'm in good company. The GREGOR telescope, a solar telescope located at the Teide Observatory in the Canary Islands also suffered fr...

This year's ESA Open Day at ESTEC in the Netherlands is taking place on an online basis. Continuing COVID-19 restrictions make it impossible to let people on site in person, but participants will still enjoy virtual tour...

Raytheon is one of several major defense contractors selected by the U.S. Air Force for the program known as "defense experimentation using commercial space internet." SpaceNews

NASA is offering to buy lunar samples collected by companies for a token sum primarily to set a precedent for space resource rights on the moon. SpaceNews

Week in images: 07-11 September 2020 Discover our week through the lens

The better our technologies get, the better we get at finding objects in space. That’s certainly true of Jupiter and its moons. Prior to Galileo, nobody knew the other planets had moons. Then in 1609/10, as he made imp...

With the help of citizen science volunteers, researchers are using artificial intelligence to try and make scientific breakthroughs.

United Launch Alliance is looking at a three-core version of its Vulcan Centaur rocket, although an executive said that such a vehicle is "pretty far out on the horizon." SpaceNews

Just how many planets are visible without a telescope? Most people will answer "five," but there is a sixth planet that can be glimpsed without visual aid: the planet Uranus.

NASA astronaut and biologist Kate Rubins is participating on Friday, Sept. 25, in a final round of media interviews before her October launch to the International Space Station, the second space mission of her NASA caree...

Astronomers address the intersection between climate change and astronomy in three new studies.

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows the Amazon River meandering through one of the most vital ecosystems in the world - the Amazon rainforest in South America....

As a free-flying, cube-shaped robot dubbed Astrobee zipped through the International Space Station today, the Expedition 63 trio aboard was occupied with upkeep and experiment maintenance tasks....

Planets form from the gas and dust in disks that surround young stars. Chemicals in the disk that evaporate easily, called volatiles, include important molecules like water, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, as well as other si...

Video: 00:06:25 Space missions are complex and require input from many specialists. The Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) is where most of ESA missions are conceived and conceptually designed. In this episode of Meet the ...

Image: Captured on 10 September 2020, this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows thick smoke blanketing the US west coast.

The cosmos will come to a close through a cold and lonely death called the Big Freeze.

Two-time NASA spaceflyer Clayton Anderson is the first speaker in a new virtual initiative designed to keep astronauts in the public eye.

The Japanese space agency JAXA announced Sept. 11 that the first launch of the country's new H3 rocket will be delayed to no earlier than the spring of 2021 because of problems with the rocket's main engine. SpaceNews

The detection of gravitational waves could explain how our universe began when another one ended.