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A growing realization of the need for a medium-class launch vehicle led Rocket Lab to speed up its plans to go public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). SpaceNews

Using ground-based facilities and space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has conducted multiwavelength observations of a galaxy cluster known as CLJ1449+0856. The observational campaign detected multiple ...

A camera at an observatory in Hawaii captured a red sprite and a blue jet in the same frame.

Chinese commercial launch company iSpace stated Monday that an errant piece of foam insulation caused the loss of its Hyperbola-1 rocket in February. SpaceNews

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is being challenged to provide faster and better products and services, the agency's deputy director Stacey Dixon said. SpaceNews

The iceberg broke off after a crack formed in November 2020.

Using virtual reality, you could explore the surface of Mars from the safety of planet Earth.

Jupiter is notorious for capturing objects that venture too close to the gas giant and its enormous pull of gravity. Asteroids known as Jupiter Trojans are a large group of space rocks that have been snared by the planet...

Vega C is the next generation of the European small lift launcher developed by Avio and is now ready for the maiden flight. The rocket will also launch the Space Rider in the near future and a new smaller and versatile v...

A new comet is on its way in toward the sun, with prospects that it may become bright enough to see with the unaided eye by year's end.

About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, theorized why the chemical composition of the Sun's tenuous outermost layer differs from that lower down. His theory has rece...

An international team led by Prof. Dr. habil. Andrzej Niedzielski, an astronomer from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland), has discovered yet another three extrasolar planets. These planets revolve aroun...

The International Space Station has gone out of business -- in a Houston suburb.

Image: Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti poses in the Cupola module of the International Space Station with two 100-day patches to mark her 200th day in space. She is now set to return to her 'home away from h...

Mars' gravity makes it an amazing place to find some of the biggest landscapes in the solar system. Those would include the solar system's biggest sand dune – one that resides in Russell crater. Now, a team of scientis...

February marked significant progress for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which completed its final functional performance tests at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California. Testing teams successfully completed tw...

Around the Milky Way, there are many river-like structures made up of stars. They are called stellar streams. How these stellar streams formed remains unclear.

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 4826--a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair). This galaxy is often referred to ...

A fireball blazed across the skies of southern England Sunday night (Feb. 28), and it likely dropped singed hunks of cosmic rock on the countryside below.

Researchers spotted an object strangely outgassing far from the sun -- like a comet -- during a long road trip through our solar system that could conclude in interstellar space, NASA says.

"You can't hit what you can't see" is a common phrase in sports and was originally derived to describe baseball pitcher Walter Johnson's fastball. But the same goes for things with a more serious spin, such as some of th...

NASA officials said March 1 that the next SpaceX commercial crew mission to the International Space Station remains on schedule for late April, but that a Boeing uncrewed test flight is facing further delays. SpaceNews