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Though Firefly Aerospace missed its own 2020 deadline to launch its Alpha rocket into space, the company says it's confident a 2021 debut is in the cards.

The world's oldest meteor impact crater is not a crater at all, say scientists of a new study suggesting natural forces put the giant indent into Earth's surface. But the jury is still out.

Tiny Earth-observing Dove satellites operated by the California company Planet have spied the giant cargo ship that's blocking the Suez Canal, as well as the traffic jam caused by the vessel's plight.

Japanese satellite operator Sky Perfect JSAT has ordered a spacecraft from Airbus for the first time, choosing the European aerospace giant to build Superbird-9 for a launch in 2024. SpaceNews

Robotic rovers like Perseverance are great, but they can’t answer the most fundamental questions about the Red Planet --

“A great fire appeared in the sky to the North, and lasted three nights,” wrote a Portuguese scribe in early March, 1582. Across the globe in feudal Japan, observers in Kyoto noted the same fiery red display in their...

Spiral troughs found on the surface of Mars are in situ ice-excavated canyons with a total volume 10 times that of the Grand Canyon, making them one of the largest and youngest geologic mega-structures in the Solar Syste...

The Space Force announced SBIRS GEO-5 will launch May 17 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. SpaceNews

Astronomers have now obtained a new view of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. Images released today by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration reveal how the black hole, some 55 million lig...

Revisiting how Earth looks from space could offer scientists clues for finding alien life on distant worlds.

"Virgin Galactic wasn't the only publicly traded space company when I opened my Roth, but it was one of the only opportunities for a small investor to back an exciting new space sector," writes high school junior Max Pro...

The most important thing we've communicated? That we exist.

The very first moments of the Universe can be reconstructed mathematically even though they cannot be observed directly. Physicists from the Universities of Göttingen and Auckland (New Zealand) have greatly improved the...

Image: The second European Service Module that will power the Orion spacecraft on a crewed flyby of the Moon is fitted with a special engine at Airbus facilities in Germany. This engine belonged to Space Shuttle Atlantis...

It looks like we'll find out in what happens when astronauts fire a gun on the moon in this week's episode of "For All Mankind" airing Friday (March 26) on Apple TV+ .

Small businesses are vital to NASA's mission, helping expand humanity's presence in space and improve life on Earth.

Human research is key aboard the International Space Station as NASA and its international partners learn to keep crews healthy during long-term exploration missions....

For well over a decade, ESA's SMOS satellite has been delivering a wealth of data to map moisture in soil and salt in the surface waters of the oceans for a better understanding of the processes driving the water cycle. ...

Arianespace successfully launched another 36 satellites for low Earth orbit broadband operator OneWeb March 25, bringing its total in-orbit constellation to 146 satellites. SpaceNews

As Carl Sagan once said, "The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars." And our first emissaries to the stars will be robotic probes. These interstellar probes will be largel...

Space communications and navigation engineers at NASA are evaluating the navigation needs for the Artemis program, including identifying the precision navigation capabilities needed to establish the first sustained prese...

Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic matter, which is the "normal" matter composing stars, planets an...