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Virgin Galactic says it is delaying the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle by more than two months to address technical issues, part of a revamped flight test program that will postpone flights of sp...

SpaceX has fired up its newest Starship prototype for the second time, continuing the vehicle's test-flight prep.

Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and teasing out the rock’s secrets. Mars would be the ultimate field trip for man...

On Friday, NASA celebrated the agency's first African American female engineer, Mary W. Jackson, with a ceremony to formally name the agency's headquarters building in Washington in her honor.

Two NASA astronauts are getting their tools and spacesuits ready for Sunday's spacewalk to ready the International Space Station for new solar arrays....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Vancouver - the third largest city in Canada....

NASA has selected Astra Space Inc. to provide a launch service for the agency's Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) mission.

China successfully sent three reconnaissance satellites into orbit Tuesday (Feb. 23), according to media reports.

NASA commemorated Mary Jackson, one of the agency's "Hidden Figures," today (Feb. 26) during a ceremony renaming the agency's headquarters after her.

Virgin Galactic won't be launching tourists to space this year after technical tweaks delayed the company's upcoming test flight by more than two months.

It was the brightest supernova in nearly 400 years when it lit the skies of the southern hemisphere in February 1987. Supernova 1987A – the explosion of a blue supergiant star in the nearby mini-galaxy known as the Lar...

A new study of x-ray bursts from a local magnetar confirms the origin of a fast radio burst. The post One Type of Fast Radio Bursts… Solved? appeared first on Universe Today.

Richard Garriott thought he would have been there and back by now.

Veteran astronaut Garrett Reisman was reviewing the script for an episode of "For All Mankind" when he came across a familiar name -- his own.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Chinese automaker Geely has got the green light to begin manufacturing satellites for navigation, connectivity and communications needed for self-driving cars. SpaceNews

Week in images: 22 - 26 February 2021 Discover our week through the lens

Astronomers always like to look at incredibly violent places. Violence, in the astronomical sense, makes for rare conditions that can explain much about our universe. One of the violent places that astronomers love to st...

After 14 years at satellite communications fleet operator SES, Nicole Robinson is taking on a new role: president of Ursa Space Systems, the geospatial analytics firm based in Ithaca, New York. SpaceNews

Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan blasted off from the Taurus-Littrow valley on the moon in their lunar module Challenger on December 14 1972. Five days later, they splashed down safely in the Pacific, closing the Apoll...

Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and teasing out the rock's secrets. Mars would be the ultimate field trip for many ...

It is increasingly likely that a NASA astronaut will fly on a Russian Soyuz mission to the International Space Station in April as the agency finalizes an agreement with its Russian counterpart. SpaceNews