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CAES, the former electronics unit of British defense and aerospace contractor Cobham, has forged an alliance to bring Swiss 3D printed satellite RF technology to the U.S. market. SpaceNews

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said an engine on the company's latest Starship prototype suffered a "hard start" that caused the vehicle to explode when attempting to land on a test flight last week. SpaceNews

The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper captured its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.

Guangzhou is developing a major space cluster in the city by hosting new projects including the new headquarters for the space business of Geely Group. SpaceNews

The ionic propulsion system that will allow the Lunar Gateway to orbit the Moon just got its first test, and passed with flying colors The post Lunar Gateway Will Maintain its Orbit With a 6 kW ion Engine appeared first ...

The weather often plays a role in our daily plans. You might put on a light jacket when the forecast calls for a cool breeze or delay your travel plans because of an impending storm. NASA engineers use weather data to in...

X-rays offer a unique insight into the astronomical world.  Invisible to the naked eye, most commonly they are thought of as the semi-dangerous source of medical scans.  However, X-ray observatories, like the Chandra X...

The universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, and while no one is sure why, researchers with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) at least had a strategy for figuring it out: They would combine measurements of the distri...

NASA is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is "seeing double." Peering back 10 billion years into the universe's past, Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars that are so close to each other they look like a single object in groun...

NASA engineers will teach kids about the Mars helicopter Ingenuity in a live webcast this week. Here's how to watch.

Director Malcolm D. Lee brings LeBron James to the animated court in the sequel to 1996's "Space Jam" with this summer's "Space Jam: A New Legacy."

Exploring volcanic lava tubes in Hawaii helps researchers understand how humans should prepare for living and working on worlds other than Earth.

Ariane 6 early combined tests at Latesys in Fos-sur-Mer, in France, have simulated the moment of liftoff when the umbilicals separate from the launch vehicle.

An ultra-high-resolution simulation of a tiny slice of the universe -- a million times smaller than a proton -- has revealed the very first structures to ever exist.

Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have detected significant GeV gamma-ray emission from a supernova remnant (SNR) known as G272.2-3.2. The finding is detailed in a paper published March 29...

The world's first ground-based observations of the bare nucleus of a comet nearing the end of its active life revealed that the nucleus has a diameter of 800 meters and is covered with large grains of phyllosilicate; on ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA plans to make a splash today (April 6) by dropping a test version of its Orion crew capsule into a big pool, and you can watch all the action live online.

Today is 406 Day - the annual campaigning day to spread awareness of the importance of emergency beacons, and the satellites that pick up their signals, including Europe's Galileo constellation. As well as letting people...

Lockheed Martin's space traffic management software will be used by Germany's space agency. SpaceNews

NASA's Ingenuity mini-helicopter has survived its first night alone on the frigid surface of Mars, the US space agency said, hailing it as "a major milestone" for the tiny craft as it prepares for its first flight.