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French propulsion startup ThrustMe is preparing to conduct an in-orbit demonstration of an iodine electric propulsion system on a 12-unit Spacety cubesat launched Nov. 6 at 10:19 Eastern time on a Chinese Long March 6 ro...

Airbus and Raytheon have filed protests with the Government Accountability Office challenging Space Development Agency contracts awarded to L3Harris and SpaceX last month for eight missile-tracking satellites, putting th...

It's all about that barrel.

We may never know.

China launched a Long March 6 rocket early Friday (Nov. 6), successfully sending 13 satellites into orbit.

After a special election in Arizona, the veteran spacefarer is set to become a senator --

As the race to launch the first astronaut into space heats up, NASA faces more challenges and delays in the sixth episode of National Geographic's "The Right Stuff."

Solving the equations of general relativity for colliding black holes is no simple matter.

A galactic bar is the approximately linear structure of stars and gas that stretches across the inner regions of some galaxies. The bar stretches from one inner spiral arm, across the nuclear region, to an arm on the oth...

With the successful launch of 10 satellites, Earth observation company Satellogic says it can now move ahead of its rivals in providing high-resolution imagery. SpaceNews

Magnetars are the highly magnetic corpses of massive stars. Recent observations show magnetars cause the mysterious Fast Radio Burst signals that astronomers have detected for more than a decade.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Week in images: 02-06 November 2020 Discover our week through the lens

Time transfer technology based on navigation satellites started in the 1980s. The conventional common view (CV), all-in-view (AV) and precise point positioning (PPP) time comparison methods based on global navigation sat...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm, on November 3, 2020, Sol 2931 of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, ...

Astrophysicists consider that around 40% of the ordinary matter that makes up stars, planets and galaxies remains undetected, concealed in the form of a hot gas in the complex cosmic web. Today, scientists at the Institu...

China's main space contractor is developing launch vehicles capable of learning and adapting as well as multiple technologies for recovering and reusing rockets. SpaceNews

Virgin Galactic aims to launch its VSS Unity space plane on its third test flight to suborbital space between Nov. 19 and Nov. 23, according to an update the company released on Thursday (Nov. 5).

Astronomers say they'll have to keep an eye on the near-Earth asteroid Apophis to see how much of a danger the space rock poses to our planet during a close pass in 2068.

New theory suggests cosmic bubbles during the birth of our universe are responsible for creating dark matter.

As private launches increase dramatically, so will emissions of CO2, particulates and other noxious substances --

As preparations for the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich continue, the team at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has bid farewell to the satellite as it is sealed from view within the two half-s...