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Virgin Galactic and its founder, Richard Branson, hailed a successful test flight by the company's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane that carried him and five others to suborbital space, but offered few new details abou...

"Suborbital" is a term you'll be hearing a lot as Sir Richard Branson flies aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity winged spaceship and Jeff Bezos flies aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle to touch the boundary of space...

A new look at old images of Earth's strange sister shows hints that the planet's crust was more mobile more recently than previously thought.

Two Missile Defense Agency cubesats launched June 30 on Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne successfully began communicating with ground stations last week, the agency announced July 12. SpaceNews

It’s tough to see inside of Saturn, because the atmosphere is opaque to all wavelengths of radiation. We have to rely on computer simulations and physics-based guesswork to try to understand the interior of that giant ...

Richard Branson apparently won't be the only space billionaire to fly with Virgin Galactic.

Today: Payloads - Expedite the Processing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS) Rack 4 (ER4) International Subrack Interface Standard (ISIS) Drawer Check:...

Richard Branson carried snapshots of his parents and kids with him to suborbital space Sunday (July 11) on the "Unity 22" test flight of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity vehicle.

NASA has awarded a five-year contract to Sierra Lobo Inc. of Fremont, Ohio, for test and operations support at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

New camera views from the cockpit and carrier launch plane follow Richard Branson on his debut flight on a Virgin Galactic spaceship.

Russia's Nauka laboratory module is now slated to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 21.

Traces of the gas phosphine point to volcanic activity on Venus, according to new research from Cornell University.

They’ll most likely be robotic, guided by AI—so we’ll need our own AI to figure it out --

Jupiter's moon Europa and its global ocean may currently have conditions suitable for life. Scientists are studying processes on the icy surface as they prepare to explore.

Astronomers have spotted more strange "free-floating" planets that could roam deep space untethered to any star.

NASA is announcing its 2021 Entrepreneurs Challenge to invite fresh ideas and new participants that will lead to new instruments and technologies with the potential to advance the agency's science mission goals.

If it were’t for an enormous halo of dark matter enveloping our galaxy, the spin-rate of our central bar should stay pretty constant. But researchers have recently inferred that it has slowed down by almost 25% since i...

The best astronomy photos of 2021 invite the eye upward and outward, bringing stunning views such as auroras above Earth and visions of a stellar nursery

Dark matter could be even weirder than anyone thought, say cosmologists who are suggesting this mysterious substance could interact with itself in a higher dimensional universe.

Israeli fleet operator Spacecom has secured an extension to use AsiaSat-8 until 2024, filling a coverage gap left by the loss of its Amos-6 satellite in 2016. SpaceNews

SpaceShipTwo make a successful, crewed suborbital test flight to 282,000 feet (86 kilometers) above Earth’s surface --

The universe is getting bigger and so too is the amount of information we have about it.