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Firefly Aerospace said Sept. 5 its first Alpha rocket failed when one of its first-stage engines shut down seconds after liftoff. SpaceNews

The crew of the upcoming Inspiration4 mission (the first all-civilian spaceflight) took a moment to get their pictures taken inside the glass dome that will let them to see Earth from orbit. The post Inspiration 4 Crew G...

The House Science Committee will mark up its portion of a multitrillion-dollar spending bill this week that includes several billion dollars for NASA infrastructure but nothing for lunar lander development. SpaceNews

NASA has confirmed that its Perseverance rover has succeeded in collecting its first rock sample on Mars.

The private Inspiration4 astronauts on SpaceX's first all-civilian spaceflight star in a new Netflix documentary on their historic flight.

As their name suggests, ultradiffuse galaxies, or UDGs, are dwarf galaxies whose stars are spread out over a vast region, resulting in extremely low surface brightness, making them very difficult to detect. Several quest...

The prevalent view of white dwarfs as inert, slowly cooling stars has been challenged by observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. An international group of astronomers have discovered the first evidence tha...

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Finding and collecting the best lunar samples will be a major task for the next astronauts on the moon. ESA's Pangaea training campaign launches today to equip astronauts with a geologist's eye on the moon--humanity's ne...

An international team of astronomers has detected a new ultra-hot Jupiter extrasolar planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The newfound alien world is nearly two times larger than Jupiter and ...

The search for technological relics of extraterrestrial civilizations will inspire the public and attract talent to the field of astronomy --

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's 2021 fall campaign is now underway in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, launching the first three of eight missions in August.

An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has uncovered, with a high degree of detail, the physical and chemical effects of the impact of a protostellar jet in the inte...

The German government said Monday it supports plans for a North Sea spaceport that would be used to launch small satellites into space from Europe.

"Don't fly too close to the sun," said Daedalus to Icarus. Flying too high would melt the wax in his wings, while going too low would cause the sea's moisture to create drag.

NASA astronauts at the International Space Station will only enjoy a half-day off from work on Labor Day today (Sept. 5).

Mars has a "bad reputation" for its high exposure to radiation and it has neither a magnetic field nor a thick atmosphere to shelter its surface from high energy particles from outer space.

The Chang'e-5 orbiter module which facilitated China's complex lunar sample return last year is on its way to the moon following deep space tests. SpaceNews

Finding and collecting the best lunar samples will be a major task for the next astronauts on the Moon. ESA'sPangaeatraining campaign launches today to equip astronauts with a geologist's eye on the Moon - humanity's nex...

NASA is commonly thought of as America's space agency, but its name also emphasizes another research area. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is also America's civilian aerospace research organization. In ...

Thomas Pesquet: A few night pictures from the Cupola: sometimes star lights battle it out with city lights for who's the brightest and more beautiful. I'm just lucky to get to be the judge....