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When SpaceX launches four civilian astronauts on the private Inspiration4 spaceflight, they're going to have the ultimate window.

Following the selection of the first Scout satellite mission last December, ESA has also given the greenlight to start negotiations with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in the UK to lead the development of the second Sco...

When we consider the sun's influence on Earth and our climate, we tend to think about solar radiation.

After a flawless launch, the test ended when the vehicle crashed during its landing attempt --

A rare fireball meteor bright enough to be seen during the day triggered a massive sonic boom over parts of the UK and France.

The General Observer scientific observations for the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's first year of operation have been selected. Proposals from ESA member states comprise 33% of the total number of selected pro...

South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Systems is planning to build and deploy a constellation of 2,000 satellites in low Earth orbit by 2030 to provide connectivity to urban cargo-delivery drones and passenger airplanes. Spac...

Virgin Galactic revealed its latest suborbital spaceplane March 30, a vehicle that looks similar to its existing SpaceShipTwo but incorporates significant structural improvements. SpaceNews

A recent study found that these dark marks, known as recurring slope lineae, surged following the massive 2018 dust storm that killed NASA's Mars rover Opportunity.

Perseverance is getting ready to deploy a helicopter on Mars as it takes a look back at its litter on the Red Planet.

SpaceX just conducted its fourth high-altitude flight test with a Starship prototype (SN11). Once again, there was a slight explosion! The post Latest Starship Prototype SN11 Explodes in mid-air, Raining Debris on the La...

Lava tubes on the moon are some of the most interesting, and difficult, places to explore in the solar system. But if humanity plans to eventually have a permanent presence on the moon, the more knowledge we have about t...

Amazon Web Services is working with Seraphim Capital on a space accelerator program for startups. SpaceNews

When I saw the opportunity to write about a new Lego set featuring the Space Shuttle Discovery and Hubble, I immediately went to my 7 year old son, who is obsessed with Legos, and asked him if he thought I should write a...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made a special call to the International Space Station to celebrate Women's History Month and some of the ground-breaking work astronauts are doing in orbit.

Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening night skies on our planet significantly more than previously understood....

The next crew to launch into space will fly on board a vehicle named for the first person to do so, Russia's space agency has announced. Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei will lift off on Soyuz MS-18, which ...

A small swatch of fabric is set to take flight on a first-of-its-kind aircraft more than a century, and a world away, from where it first made history. The strip of muslin,

At the start of March, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover began approaching an impressive rock formation that scientists dubbed "Mont Mercou," a nickname taken from a mountain in France. Standing about 20 feet (6 meters) tall, ...

A person suffering from arachnophobia might think their fear would stoked on a trip to Mars. However, there is such a thing known colloquially as a Martian "spider". It is much more innocuous than the eight legged animal...

New observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most recently detected interstellar visitor to our Solar S...

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