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SpaceX fired up the massive booster rocket for its new Starship spacecraft for the first time Monday night (July 19).

NASA has announced that after more than a month of troubleshooting, the Hubble Space Telescope is operational once more! The post Good News! NASA Announces that they have Fixed Hubble! appeared first on Universe Today.

Blue Origin sent its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and three crewmates to suborbital space today (July 20) on the first crewed mission of its New Shepard vehicle.

For people who are disabled and have always dreamed of training to fly to space, the SciAccess Initiative has opened up applications to disabled crew participants for a Zero-G parabolic flight.

Ever since the announcement last September that astronomers found evidence of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, the planet has been getting a lot of attention. It’s not surprising. Phosphine is a potential biosignature...

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin took Amelia Earhart's goggles, Skittles and aviation artifacts to space on New Shepard's first crewed flight.

Russia is launching its Nauka science module, which includes a new European robotic arm, to the International Space Station on Wednesday (July 21).

Blue Origin's first spaceflyers launched to space and back today (July 20) and loved it so much that some are already planning their return trips.

Blue Origin successfully completed New Shepard's first human flight today with four private citizens onboard....

As the week kicked off, the Expedition 65 crew members spent much of their Monday fine-tuning procedures in anticipation of Wednesday's port-relocation activity, which will free up the Harmony's forward port for the dock...

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun its search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. Flexing its 7-foot (2-meter) mechanical arm, the rover is testing the sensitive detectors it carries, capturing their ...

Blue Origin plans to fly two more flights with paying customers in 2021 after founder Jeff Bezos and three other crew members made a debut trip on New Shepard Tuesday (July 20).

Microbes are really good at eating a range of substances, so humans are putting them to work cleaning up our messes -- and our art.

Visualizations shape how we perceive space exploration. Whether it's the Pale Blue Dot, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Earthrise, or any other myriad images captured as part of this great endeavor, they all help inspire th...

At a post-flight press conference, Jeff Bezos made several announcements and spoke about the next steps Blue Origin will take. The post What's Next for Blue Origin After Today's Successful Flight? appeared first on Unive...

The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now started its scientific mission at the WIYN 3.5m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona.

On 23 July 2012, humanity escaped technological and economic disaster. A diffuse cloud of magnetized plasma in the shape of a slinky toy tens of thousands of kilometers across was hurled from the Sun at a speed of hundre...

A team of solar physicists led by Laurent Gizon of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and the University of Göttingen in Germany has reported the discovery of global oscillations of the Sun with ve...

On the anniversary of the first Moon landing, Blue Origin became the second commercial space company in just nine days to send people just past the edge of space. During the seemingly flawless 10 minute and 10 second fli...

The billionaire and three others take a suborbital trip onboard the craft New Shepard --

The analog dials used to fly a 40-year-old NASA space shuttle have inspired the look of a new, avant-garde timepiece. The UR-100V P.02 wristwatch combines Urwerk's unique approach to displaying time with the aesthetics o...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: