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The theme park titan's Space Mountain joins a long list of attraction-based Hollywood film projects fueling up on the development launch pad.

SpaceX launched the SN8 Starship prototype early today and while it failed to stick the landing, the flight was an overall success! The post SpaceX’s SN8 Starship Soars and Belly-Flops, but Fails to Stick the Landing. ...

This year, SpaceX launched the first privately owned capsule carrying NASA astronauts to the space station and back. NASA, as well as private companies, also made giant leaps for space travel in 2020.

NASA has selected a team of astronauts who will be eligible for future Artemis missions to the moon even as the prospects of a 2024 crewed landing continue to dim. SpaceNews

The Starship prototype flew smoothly for 6 minutes and 42 seconds before missing its landing.

Water on Mars, in the form of brines, may not be as widespread as previously thought, according to a new study by researchers at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences.

A new study suggests that planets smaller than Earth form much later than large planets, which could point to a rare Earth. The post Heard of Mini-Neptunes and gas-Dwarfs? Here's a new one: sub-Earths appeared first on U...

SpaceX performed the first high-altitude test flight of a prototype of its Starship launch vehicle Dec. 9, with the vehicle successfully lifting off the pad but exploding when attempting a landing several minutes later. ...

Vice President Mike Pence announced Dec. 9 that Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Patrick Air Force Base are being renamed as Space Force installations. SpaceNews

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Patrick Air Force Base in Florida have been formally re-designated for the U.S. Space Force, though in name only.

Fast spinning black holes could have features different from those predicted by general relativity. The post Black Holes Gain new Powers When They Spin Fast Enough appeared first on Universe Today.

Follow-up observations by NASA scientists has confirmed that the mystery object 2020 SO is indeed a relic of the early Space Age. The post That’s no Asteroid, it’s a Rocket Booster appeared first on Universe Today.

A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery much closer to home: A hypothesized, distant body in our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine."

NASA will provide live coverage Monday, Dec. 14, of a solar eclipse that will pass over South America, treating parts of Chile and Argentina to views of a total eclipse of the Sun.

We are pleased to once again welcome Casey Dreier from the Planetary Society to the WSH. Casey will update us (as much as possible) about Space Policy changes that may occur once the new American Presidential administrat...

President Donald Trump released a new national space policy Wednesday (Dec. 9), laying out the fundamental principles of, and chief priorities for, the United States' space activities going forward.

A new U.S. spy satellite will launch into space Thursday (Dec. 10) on the mightiest rocket built by the United Launch Alliance: the massive Delta IV Heavy. Watch it live.

Solar Orbiter's latest results show that the mission is making the first direct connections between events at the solar surface and what's happening in interplanetary space around the spacecraft. It is also giving us new...

Hubble Space Telescope News:

Despite its “rapid unplanned disassembly,” the company’s highest-yet flight of its next-generation rocket was a success --

Launch integration company TriSept has purchased a launch from Relativity Space that it plans to use for a smallsat rideshare mission as soon as 2022. SpaceNews

Researchers from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder are diving into the dusty environment that surrounds the sun--a search that could help to reveal how planets ...