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Once described as the most complex flying machine ever built, comprised of more than 2.5 million moving parts, you can now assemble your own model of NASA's space shuttle using just 2,354 pieces.

Brian Binne, veteran test pilot of SpaceShipOne, weighs in on flying the first commercial spacecraft and what the future of private space travel holds in his new book "The Magic and Menace of SpaceShipOne."

NASA's InSight lander has spent more than a full Martian year stationed on the Red Planet, and scientists are pleased with the spacecraft's observations to date, despite the challenges Mars has posed.

The enormous Baikal-GVD will look for the particles from 4,300 feet (1,310 meters) below the lake surface.

In absence of (yet) being able to step foot on Mars, we have robotic vicarious experiences through our rovers including Perseverance which landed this past February 18th. In addition to photos we’ve collected from the ...

A Rocket Lab Electron booster is scheduled to lift off from the company's New Zealand launch site today at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT), on a mission dubbed "They Go Up So Fast."

A U.S. weather satellite that retired eight years ago has fallen apart in orbit, breaking into at least 16 pieces, according to government representatives.

Over the weekend, NASA's Perseverance rover dropped the debris shield that protected the Mars helicopter Ingenuity during the mission's epic Feb. 18 touchdown.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said the Space Force is making progress in the organization of its acquisition office and expects to see new proposals to accelerate acquisition programs. SpaceNews

SpaceX just fired up its latest Starship prototype, keeping the vehicle on track for a high-altitude test flight this week.

Ancient people looked up at the night sky and pondered the question of alien life, too.

A 'new star' erupted into visibility over the past weekend, and continues to brighten. The post New Binocular Nova Cas 2021 Flares in Cassiopeia appeared first on Universe Today.

We don’t know if the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua was natural or artificial—but a new telescope coming online in a few years could help us identify the next one --

Mass is constantly being redistributed around our planet, as Earth's atmosphere, oceans and other bodies of water on and under the surface melt, shift and stir. This mass redistribution alters Earth's centre of gravity, ...

Mars has lost most of its once plentiful water, with small amounts remaining in the planet's atmosphere. ESA's Mars Express now reveals more about where this water has gone, showing that its escape to space is accelerate...

Tunisia celebrated the launch Monday of its first domestically made satellite, hoping it would inspire young engineers to reach for the stars at home rather than join those emigrating overseas.

Russia on Monday put 38 foreign satellites into orbit after a succesful launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan following delays due to technical issues.

The Pentagon's renewed focus on space and the standup of the U.S. Space Force are boosting demand for technologies being developed by commercial companies. The Air Force technology accelerator known as AFWERX is respondi...

You'll soon be able to recreate one of NASA's most famous space shuttle missions in Lego for with the new NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set.

Eutelsat Communications has ordered a GEO satellite called Eutelsat 36D from Airbus for a launch in 2024 SpaceNews

The whole universe was packed together in an infinitely small point, then it exploded, and the entire mass that made up the universe was sent out into space.

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers from Chile have performed a chemical analysis of a sample of stars in the globular cluster NGC 6553. Results of this study, available in a paper published March 12 on the...