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Firefly Aerospace, nearing the first launch of its Alpha rocket, announced May 4 it raised $75 million in a Series A round that values the company at more than $1 billion. SpaceNews

The outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy are a different place. Stars are much harder to come by, with most of this "galactic halo" being made up of empty space. But scientists theorize that there is an abundance of one...

Due to protests filed by Blue Origin and Dynetics, NASA has called for a stop-work order on the SpaceX Human Landing System (HLS). The post Protests From Dynetics and Blue Origin put NASA’s Lunar Lander Award to SpaceX...

This May, NASA celebrates the contributions of its Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) employees - past and present - with a variety of internal and external events and products centered around the theme: Advancin...

SpaceX continued the deployment of its Starlink broadband megaconstellation May 4 with the second launch of 60 satellites in less than a week. SpaceNews

SpaceX launched its own version of the "fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy," the Falcon 9, on Star Wars Day (aka "May the Fourth").

The Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress released a new report May 4 calling on the U.S. government to accelerate the procurement of commercial space technologies and manage growing congestion in low-Earth o...

Using the radio-echo timing technique, a team of researchers have precisely measured the length of a day on Venus The post How Long is a Day on Venus? We Finally Know the Exact Answer appeared first on Universe Today.

Europe is preparing for more emergency in-orbit maneuvers in an increasingly crowded space environment, after its Galileo satellite navigation constellation had to dodge debris for the first time March 6. SpaceNews

Industrial Light and Magic pulls back the curtain on its stunning work for the second season of Disney Plus' mega-popular "Star Wars" series "The Mandalorian."

This overlay shows radio (orange) and infrared images of a giant molecular cloud called W49A, where new stars are being formed. A team of astronomers led by Chris DePree of Agnes Scott College used the National Science F...

AST SpaceMobile, which became a public company in April to develop a cellphone-compatible satellite broadband constellation, is expanding its leadership team. SpaceNews

NASA's next megarocket for the moon, the Space Launch System (SLS) has arrived in Florida. The behemoth's core stage arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center via barge last Tuesday evening (April 27).

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A new map including rover paths of the Schrödinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions.The map was created by a team of interns at the Lunar and Planetary Institute,...

Past physics theories introduced several fundamental constants, including Newton's constant G, which quantifies the strength of the gravitational interaction between two massive objects. Combined, these fundamental const...

An open question among the physics community is whether black holes can be tidally deformed by an external gravitational field. If this were confirmed to be true, it could have important implications for many areas of ph...

Using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have detected a new extragalactic odd radio circle (ORC). The newfound radio source, designated ORC J0102-2450, has a diameter of nearly 1 mill...

Disney's newest cruise liner sets sail summer of 2022 featuring an elegant new adult bar called the "Star Wars: Hyperspace Lounge."

Rocks can tell us a lot about a planet. On Earth, the study of geology has been around for hundreds of years and has resulted in such scientific findings as the theory of plate tectonics and the discovery of dinosaur fos...

SpaceX is getting in on the Star Wars Day action as it's planning to launch its own Falcon into space this May the Fourth.

A team of international scientists, led by the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), has proposed a simple and novel method to bring...