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Boeing said April 17 that the next test flight of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle won't take place until at least August, confirming a lengthy delay widely expected because of the schedule of other launches...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter lifted off on the Red Planet early this morning (April 19), performing the first-ever powered flight on a world beyond Earth.

Scientists baked meteorites in an oven and studied the gases they released to investigate the atmospheres of rocky planets.

Could we slow down global warming by creating an aerosol reflector to deflect the sun's rays away from Earth? And should we?

NASA has selected SpaceX to develop the Human Landing System (HLS) that will bring the "first woman and next man" to the Moon in 2024! The post NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Astronauts on the Moon! appeared first on Universe...

The National Reconnaissance Office wants to better understand the capabilities of commercial satellite radar imagery providers. SpaceNews

Mars has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. With the historic landing of the Perseverance Rover earlier in the year, and the successful flight of Ingenuity, the first-ever aircraft to fly in another atmo...

Arnold Schwarzenegger had some important words for NASA ahead of the historic first flight of the agency's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity.

NASA conducted its first flight on another planet early Monday morning, a short hop for a small chopper named Ingenuity which demonstrated technology that could prove critical to the future of space exploration.

The winners of the first ESA-EGU Excellence Award were awarded their prizes earlier today at the virtual EGU General Assembly ceremony, attended by ESA's Director General, Josef Aschbacher and ESA's Acting Director of Ea...

Amazon has ordered nine Atlas 5 rockets from United Launch Alliance to help place its 3,236-strong Project Kuiper broadband constellation. SpaceNews

Asteroids can pose a threat to life on Earth but are also a valuable source of resources to make fuel or water to aid deep space exploration. Devoid of geological and atmospheric processes, these space rocks provide a wi...

Download the digital edition of the April 19 issue of SpaceNews magazine, provided compliments of Blacksky. SpaceNews

Scientists and engineers react with elation to the historicinterplanetary flight --

On April 21, 1908, near Earth's North Pole, the Arctic explorer Frederick Albert Cook scrawled in his diary a memorable phrase: "We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice." These words may soon take on ...

NASA pulled off a Wright Brothers moment on Mars early today by successfully flying the tiny Ingenuity helicopter for approximately 40 seconds. "We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,...

Video: 00:30:26 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is set to go back to the International Space Station on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft on 22 April 2021. Watch the replay of the media Q+A session held on 19 April with Thoma...

Canada's space industry seems to be on the path of a relaunch. The relaunch is two-pronged -- backed by an ambitious and hungry private sector and increasing government support. SpaceNews

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully hovered for 40 seconds in Mars’s thin atmosphere --

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully hovered for 40 seconds in Mars’s thin atmosphere --

A team of astronomers led by Dutch scientists has directly imaged a giant planet orbiting at a large distance around a sun-like star. Why this planet is so massive and how it got to be there is a mystery. The researchers...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a detailed kinematic study of a radio galaxy known as 3C 84. The research sheds more light on the properties of this source and its connection to gamma-ray emission. The...