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In some applications, bigger lasers mean better lasers. That is the case in astronomy, where lasers are used for everything from telescope calibration to satellite communication. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) a...

The Federal Aviation Administration will not allow Virgin Galactic to resume flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane until it completes an investigation into a problem on the vehicle's previous flight in July. ...

Firefly Aerospace suffered a catastrophic failure during the first-ever launch of its Alpha rocket on Sept 2, 2021.

Students participating with the Nebraska 4-H will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Two cosmonauts will exit the International Space Station on Friday to begin powering up the new Russian science module....

Our neighboring planet only sits 34 billion miles away, so what's the big hold up?

NASA is inviting a limited number of media to capture imagery of the fully stacked and integrated Artemis I mission Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

So much in the astronomy community revolves around the decadal survey. Teams of dozens of scientists put hundreds of hours developing proposals that eventually try to impact the recommendations of the survey panel that i...

The epic storm that swept across the eastern United States this week hit New Jersey so hard that satellites saw the damage from space.

The four astronauts poised to launch on first-ever all-civilian SpaceX mission this month will have one heck of a view once they reach orbit.

The first teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich's new sci-fi film "Moonfall" has arrived.

How satellites are stitched together in a highly complex, multi-band and multi-network system needs to be at the forefront of SDA's Transport Layer discussion. . SpaceNews

A Chinese science proposal plans to study how to get a giant spacecraft into space.

After many technical and programmatic challenges, the first satellite of the next generation of the Meteosat family has taken a major step towards its first flight, currently scheduled for launch in autumn 2022.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson's trip to the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston this week brought back memories of his first visit to the home of U.S. human spaceflight more than 35 years ago.

Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk Sunday, Sept. 12.

Week in images: 30 August - 3 September 2021 Discover our week through the lens

The Nikon Z6 is part of Nikon's mirrorless suite of cameras, and when you combine price with performance, it's a real star in the night sky photography world.

A leader in the 'smartscope' industry releases its exciting new eQuinox telescope. The post Review: Unistellar’s New eQuinox Telescope appeared first on Universe Today.

The largest piece of Martian rock on Earth, weighing around 32 pounds, has gone on display for the first time, at a museum in Maine.

Astronomers may have captured the best view yet of matter colliding with the surface of a young star, findings that may shed light on what the sun looked like in its youth.

Just outside the Milky Way, about 200,000 light-years from the Earth, lies the Small Magellanic Cloud. Even if it's a humble shadow of the Milky Way, it's a galaxy in its own right. And the Small Magellanic Cloud fascina...