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The Senate unanimously confirmed Bill Nelson to be NASA's next administrator, wrapping up a whirlwind confirmation process that was vastly different from that experienced by his predecessor. SpaceNews

Stratolaunch's Roc carrier plane, which is being groomed to haul hypersonic vehicles aloft, conducted its second-ever test flight this morning (April 29).

The space market is at a watershed moment as private and public investments continue to surge. SpaceNews

SpaceX this weekend will attempt the first U.S. splashdown of returning astronauts in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot in 1968.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will keep flying for an additional 30 days (at least), the agency announced today (April 30).

Ingenuity aced its fourth-ever Martian flight this morning (April 30), going farther and faster than it ever had before.

Antofagasta, a port city in northern Chile, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission....

NASA and SpaceX have decided to move Crew-1's undocking and splashdown from Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, respectively, following a review of the forecast weather conditions in the splashdown zones off the coast...

Early on Thursday, a Long March 5B rocket – currently the most powerful of China’s space launch vehicles – blasted off from Wenchang, carrying the first major component of an ambitious new modular space station. Th...

Does it make sense for the Pentagon to spend billions of dollars buying and maintaining satellites when there are now private companies that can provide space-based capabilities as a service? That's the question at the h...

SpaceX may launch its latest Starship prototype from the company's Starbase test site in South Texas soon, but exactly when is unclear.

NASA has a long tradition of unexpected discoveries, and the space program's TESS mission is no different. SMU astrophysicist and her team have discovered a particularly bright gamma-ray burst using a NASA telescope desi...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new mission. Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new operations demonstration phase, explorin...

Here's a look at the Lego Star Wars sets for 2021. Build, or build not -- there is no try!

A new study confirms the existence of dark energy with stunning accuracy. The post 11-Sigma Detection of Dark Energy Comes From Measuring Over a Million Extremely Distant Galaxies appeared first on Universe Today.

The community gets into a deeper conversation about space colonization and the ever-expanding universe. Then, one member blows us away with some remarkable art!

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new mission. Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new operations demonstration phase, explorin...

In an alternate reality playing out at this year's internationalPlanetary Defense Conference, a fictional asteroid crashes over Europe, 'destroying' a region about 100 km wide near the Czech Republic and German border. T...

The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern Physics at the same time: the problema of Charge and Parity in th...

Lithuania signed an Association Agreement with ESA on 28 April 2021. This Association Agreement between ESA and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, builds on the successful results achieved under the previous fr...

Lithuania signed an Association Agreement with ESA on 28 April 2021. This Association Agreement between ESA and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, builds on the successful results achieved under the previous fr...

Kleos Space is conducting a six-month test of technology for in-space manufacturing of large 3D carbon fiber structures. SpaceNews