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The Federal Aviation Administration has wrapped up its six-week inquiry into the July 11 test flight of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane.

Space exploration requires all kinds of interesting solutions to complex problems. There is a branch of NASA designed to support the innovators trying to solve those problems--the Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC). ...

Astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of CAS and Nanjing University have revealed the wobbly and flared nature of the Milky Way disk...

The FAA said Sept. 29 that it completed its investigation into a problem on Virgin Galactic's most recent SpaceShipTwo flight, allowing the company to resume flights of the suborbital spaceplane. SpaceNews

The U.S. needs better capabilities to monitor adversaries' activities in space and has to quickly deploy satellite constellations that can survive in a conflict, said Maj. Gen. David Miller, of U.S. Space Command. SpaceN...

The SpaceX Cargo Dragon is due to wrap up its month-long resupply mission to the International Space Station on Thursday morning....

Dunes develop when wind-blown sand organizes into patterns, most often in deserts and arid or semi-arid parts of the world. Every continent on Earth has dune fields, but dunes and dune-like sand patterns are also found a...

NASA will highlight the next crew rotation flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft carrying astronauts to the International Space Station with a pair of virtual media briefings Wednesday, Oct. 6, and Thursday. Oct. 7.

NASA has selected two U.S. companies to support its Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) that will rapidly mature Electrified Aircraft Propulsion (EAP) technologies through ground and flight demonstrations.

Three months after certifying that their candies are "guaranteed to actually float while in space," Skittles is offering one fan the chance to test it out for themselves.

A satellite servicing industry group is making progress on a series of standards that it believes can help enable the growth of the nascent field. SpaceNews

BepiColombo made a quick visit to Venus in August and is on to its next rendezvous. On October 1st it’ll perform a flyby of Mercury, the spacecraft’s eventual destination. This visit is just a little flirtation--one ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will visit with students in Tallahassee, Florida to discuss the future of space exploration at 2 p.m. EDT on Friday, Oct.1.

Get every episode of Firefly streaming on your TV or laptop, whether you're tuning in to the original sci-fi series or the feature film Serenity.

When it comes to directly imaging Earth-like exoplanets orbiting faraway stars, seeing isn't always believing.

Nine small satellites will launch to Earth orbit atop Japan's Epsilon rocket tonight (Sept. 30).

Starlink keeps growing, and so do its capabilities. Lately, even people outside of SpaceX have even been developing capabilities for it. A team of researchers from the Ohio State University (OSU) and the University of Ca...

One advantage to planetary science is that insights from one planet could explain phenomena on another. We understand Venus' greenhouse gas effect from our own experience on the Earth, and Jupiter and Saturn share some c...

When Nicole Oliveira was just learning to walk, she would throw up her arms to reach for the stars in the sky.

There are many reports based on scientific research that talk about the long-term impacts of climate change -- such as rising levels of greenhouse gases, temperatures and sea levels -- by the year 2100.

SpaceX's Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station packed full of science experiments after one month at the orbiting laboratory.

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is suited, booted and ready for his Cosmic Kiss mission. As a member of US Commercial Crew-3 he will be launched to the International Space Station in a Crew Dragon spacecraft in around one ...