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On the fifth attempt, SpaceX nailed the high-altitude flight test with a Starship prototype! Onward and upward we go! The post SpaceX’s SN15 Starship Prototype Nails It! appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA is one step closer to robotically refueling a satellite and demonstrating in-space assembly and manufacturing thanks to the completion of an important milestone.

Xilinx's radiation-resistant integrated circuits help power cameras and instruments on NASA's Perseverance rover.

Satellite operators Intelsat and SES say they are on track to meet a key C-band spectrum clearing deadline this year, despite ongoing COVID-19 disruption. SpaceNews

NASA invites the public and the media to watch its first asteroid sample return mission begin a two-year cruise home at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, May 10, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website.

Life science was the main science topic aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday....

NASA has awarded the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Evolution and Development (EED)-3 contract to Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Maryland.

An astronomer spotted a huge Chinese rocket core falling uncontrolled from orbit, as the White House weighed in on the tricky international situation.

Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi will launch on its second test flight this summer, if all goes according to plan.

NASA and Boeing are now targeting July 30 for an uncrewed test flight of the aerospace company's troubled Starliner capsule to the International Space Station, they announced Thursday.

Evidence of recent volcanic activity on Mars shows that eruptions could have taken place within the past 50,000 years, a paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist David Horvath says.

The Long March 5b rocket’s core stage could plummet to Earth as early as May 9 --

For millennia, humans in the high latitudes have been enthralled by auroras--the northern and southern lights. Yet even after all that time, it appears the ethereal, dancing ribbons of light above Earth still hold some s...

Pulsars--another name for fast-spinning neutron stars--originate from the imploded cores of massive dying stars through supernova explosion.

After multiple explosive endings to previous high-altitude tests, a prototype rocket for voyages to the Moon and Mars finally touched down safely --

German launch startup Isar Aerospace beat out Rocket Factory Augsburg and HyImpulse Technologies to win a DLR endorsement that clears the way for it to secure 11 million euros from the European Space Agency's Boost! prog...

Within a decade or two, we could observe the cosmic expansion, not as a series of snapshots but as a very slow-motion film --

The U.S. Space Force on May 6 released its "Vision for a Digital Service." SpaceNews

Recent developments at the forefront of astronomy allow us to observe that planets orbiting other stars have weather. Indeed, we have known that other planets in our own solar system have weather, in many cases more extr...

Lucy's epic journey to observe Jupiter's Trojan asteroids requires a reliable communications link back to Earth, and so the spacecraft is outfitted with a 6.5-ft. (2-meter)-wide high gain antenna for this task.

After years of development, the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) project has been awarded $500,000 to support additional work as it enters Phase II of NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. While not yet ...

For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal -- that is, if it looks the same no matter how large the scale.