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The Marshall Space Flight Center is a hub for historic and modern-day rocket power in Alabama. Once home to Wernher von Braun's crew of German rocketeers, the facility is now home to work for Artemis and Blue Origin.

Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson denied that he is in a billionaire space race with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

The $9.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope mission has passed a key launch review, keeping it on track to lift off atop an Ariane 5 rocket before the end of the year.

Astra plans to get to Earth orbit for the first time this summer -- and to return many times in the ensuing weeks and months.

An unknown methane-producing process is likely at work in the hidden ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy by scientists at the University of Arizona a...

Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of "free-floating" planets, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star....

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket landing pad drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" has moved to California for West Coast launches.

When gravitational waves were first detected in 2015 by the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), they sent a ripple through the scientific community, as they confirmed another of Einstein'...

SpaceX just rolled its Super Heavy Booster prototype (B3) onto the test pad at Boca Chica, bringing the company closer to its first orbital test flight (expected later this year) The post After Just 6 Weeks of Constructi...

Virgin Orbit is gearing up for a third launch this year -- and an even busier 2022.

China appears to be returning to its pre-pandemic pace of launching back-to-back space missions.

The UAE's Nora al-Matrooshi is the first Arab woman to start training to be an astronaut, one of two Emiratis picked from thousands of applicants as the Gulf nation looks to the stars.

Media accreditation is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman's 16th commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station ...

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Our measurements of cosmic expansion might be better than we've thought. Maybe even good enough to make cosmic tension go away. The post The "Crisis in Cosmology" Might not be a Crisis After all appeared first on Univers...

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Sometimes simple and elegant solutions are all that is needed to solve a problem. One problem that was searching for a solution was how to track microplastics. These small particles of plastics are what results after the...

Planet announced July 7 it will go public in a $2.8 billion deal with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the second SPAC deal in the Earth observation sector in as many days. SpaceNews

Certain parts of the galaxy are more magical than others. There are barren wastelands where barely a particle strays through occasionally, and there are fantastical nebulae that can literally light up the sky. But beyond...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is facing its most serious malfunction in more than a decade, and while NASA is eager to restore the iconic observatory, the agency doesn't want to rush.

A massive explosion from a previously unknown source--10 times more energetic than a supernova--could be the answer to a 13-billion-year-old Milky Way mystery.

Satellites and the space station crew are tracking the progress of the record-breaking deadly Tropical Storm Elsa as it moves along the Florida coast.