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Small launch startup Aevum on Dec. 3 unveiled its Ravn X vehicle, a reusable drone aircraft and rocket combination designed to launch small payloads to orbit. SpaceNews

With new data from the European Gaia spacecraft, astronomers can now explore 1.8 billion cosmic objects in unparalleled detail.

NASA has selected four companies to collect space resources and transfer ownership to the agency: Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado; Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California; ispace Europe of Luxembourg; and ispace Jap...

In our Milky Way, there are about 200 billion suns as well as large quantities of gas, some of which serves as raw material for star births. The gas collects in compact lumps but also appears as extended molecular clouds...

For the first time in more than 40 years, a robotic spacecraft has blasted off from the Moon - and for the first time ever, it’s a Chinese spacecraft, carrying precious lunar samples back to Earth. The ascent vehicle f...

The measurement of the acceleration of our solar system by astronomers of TU Dresden is a scientific highlight of the third Gaia catalog, which is now being released. With its publication on December 3, 2020, at 12:00 , ...

Western Sydney University researchers have discovered the 'senior citizens' of our neighboring galaxy--close to 120,000-year-old remains of exploding stars known as supernova remnants.

The window for the third crewed spaceflight of VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic's latest SpaceShipTwo space plane, opens on Dec. 11.

NASA just bought the rights to four batches of future moon samples for the low, low price of $25,001.

NASA has selected two SmallSat missions - a study of Earth's outer most atmosphere and a solar sail spaceflight test mission - to share a ride to space in 2025 with the agency's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Prob...

NASA's Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) program has selected three additional informal education organizations to promote learning in STEM with the goal of inspiring the next generati...

Great things take time. This is true when it comes to many processes in the universe. For example, it takes millions of years for stars--the building blocks of the universe--to form. Then, many stars last for billions of...

CSIRO has made a detailed radio survey of the southern hemisphere, and discovered a million new galaxies. The post Australian Radio Telescopes Just Completed a map of the Universe appeared first on Universe Today.

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New research involving nemotode worms aboard the ISS have shown that the effects of microgravity extend to the genetic level. The post Spacefaring Worms Show How Gravity Affects Genes appeared first on Universe Today.

ESA and Thales Alenia Space have today signed a contract to develop the new high-priority Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) environmental monitoring mission - as part of Europe's Copernicu...

A sailor in the Vendée Globesolo round-the-world yacht race faced disaster in the Southern Ocean as raging waves pounded his vessel apart. But he was saved thanks to the search and rescue antennas aboard Europe's Galile...

The universe might be full of tiny, ancient black holes. And researchers might be able to prove it.

China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon's surface and sealed them within the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first time such a mission has been attempted by any country in m...

It took 17 seconds for Arecibo's massive radio telescope to crumble. It will take much longer for the dust to settle.

The National Science Foundation released two different videos today showing the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory, as it happened on December 1, 2020. Needless to say, the footage is heartbreaking. In a press briefing ...

China has launched a small spacecraft from the surface of the moon in the critical next step in the ambitious Chang'e 5 mission to bring lunar samples to Earth.