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Northrop Grumman is set to launch a Minotaur 1 rocket early Tuesday morning (June 15), and you can watch the action live online.

A recent study claims to have found evidence for mushroom-like life forms on the surface of Mars.

Small launch vehicle company Launcher announced June 15 that it is also working on an orbital transfer vehicle for small satellites that it plans to use on both its own rocket as well as SpaceX's Falcon 9. SpaceNews

Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away....

Flying isn't easy to do these days amid the pandemic, but one group of passengers got to see a rocket launch from the air last month as an unexpected reward for their efforts.

A lot of the threats humanity faces come from ourselves. If we were listing them, we’d include tribalism, greed, and the fact that we’re evolved primates, and our brains have a lot in common with animal brains. Our a...

La NASA lanza la Misión Equity (equidad, en español), un esfuerzo integral para evaluar la expansión y modificación de programas, compras de suministros, becas, y políticas de la agencia y examinar qué obstáculos ...

Brazil has signed on to the NASA-led Artemis Accords initiative to explore the moon responsibly.

Not quite ready to face the world? Sink your teeth into one of these sci-fi flicks that are streaming on Netflix.

One of the best things about that universe is that there is so much to it. If you look hard enough, you can most likely find any combination of astronomical events happening. Not long ago we reported on research that fou...

NASA is launching Mission Equity, a comprehensive effort to assess expanding and modifying agency programs, procurements, grants, and policies, and examine what potential barriers and challenges exist for communities tha...

Laying on a grassy field staring at the cloud formations in the sky and coming up with harebrained ideas about their shapes is a common feature in childhood summers – at least as they're portrayed in media. Someday tha...

The scheduled June 17 SpaceX launch of a GPS 3 satellite will be the first national security space mission to use a refurbished Falcon 9 booster. SpaceNews

NASA is looking for proposals for two new commercial astronaut missions to begin as soon as 2022 as the agency works to make space more accessible.

NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to move into "preliminary design," its next phase of development on the road to a planned liftoff in 2026.

The western world's most advanced economies have agreed to take action against space debris at the G-7 Leaders' Summit in Cornwall, U.K.

Solar activities, such as CME(Coronal Mass Ejection), cause geomagnetic storms that disturb the Earth's magnetosphere. Geomagnetic storms can affect GPS positioning, radio communication, and power transmission system. So...

Record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson will return to space to command a commercial mission for Texas-based Axiom Space, three years after her retirement from NASA in 2018.

Hungarian IT and communications company 4iG aims to buy 51% of Israeli satellite operator Spacecom to jump-start its international space ambitions. SpaceNews

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a companion to the M dwarf star known as TOI-1278. The newly found object turns out to be a brown dwarf nearly 20 times as massive as Jupiter. The finding is ...

By mapping the motion of galaxies in huge filaments that connect the cosmic web, astronomers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), in collaboration with scientists in China and Estonia, have found that...

A Minotaur 1 rocket blasted off from the Eastern Shore of Virginia Tuesday morning (June 15), heading to orbit with three secret spacecraft for the U.S. government's spy satellite agency.