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The small LICIACube spacecraft will watch its robotic colleague, NASA's DART mission, smash into an asteroid and sending the footage back to Earth.

The commercial space company SpinLaunch just conducted its first successful launch test from their facility at Spaceport America. The post SpinLaunch Hurls a Test Vehicle Kilometers Into the air. Eventually, it’ll Thro...

Skywatchers across North America and beyond got a first class view of the longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years, though for some, weather ruined the experience.

Spanish-German company Plus Ultra Space Outposts is making moves to be the provider for essential communications and navigation infrastructure for upcoming moon missions. SpaceNews

It's one small step for Japan, but one giant opportunity for would-be space cadets: the country is recruiting new astronauts for the first time in over a decade and applicants no longer have to hold a science degree.

If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it.

Later this month, NASA will launch a mission to smack an asteroid into a new orbit to prepare for the possibility that an asteroid in the future might threaten Earth. But don't worry.

An experimental spacecraft testing solar sail space propulsion is still riding the sunbeams in Earth's orbit more than two and a half years after its launch.

The Hera mission will follow NASA's DART asteroid-deflecting spacecraft to the binary space rock Didymos and detail the aftermath of DART's collision with the smaller of the two asteroids.

It’s one of nature’s topsy-turvy tricks that the deep interior of the Earth is as hot as the Sun’s surface. The sphere of iron that resides there is also under extreme pressure: about 360 million times more pressur...

Satellite operator Telesat started trading as a public company Nov. 19 in the U.S. and Canada, boosting talks with export-credit agencies about funding the rest of its $5 billion Lightspeed broadband constellation. Space...

Stunning new videos show NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity soaring through the Red Planet skies like never before.

French startup Kinéis secured regulatory approval Nov. 18 to connect internet of things devices in the United States to its planned nanosatellite constellation. SpaceNews

To terraform Mars, we will need to give it a protective magnetic field. Here's how we might do it. The post An Absolutely Bonkers Plan to Give Mars an Artificial Magnetosphere appeared first on Universe Today.

La NASA publicó la traducción al español de una novela gráfica digital el viernes.

The Vanguard Alta Pro 263AB tripod is a solid, sturdy and flexible option for mirrorless and DSLR cameras.

Punk by name, punk by nature, the 3 Legged Thing PUNKS Brian Tripod is a showstopper among travel tripods.

Even after 30 months in space, The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 mission continues to successfully "sail on sunbeams," demonstrating solar sail technology in Earth orbit. The mission is providing hard data for future m...

There are heaps of telescopes on Amazon, many of which are discounted as part of the Black Friday sales.

SpaceNews spoke with Franck Huiban, who leads ArianeGroup's Ariane 6 program, about how it is adapting Ariane 6 for this fast-evolving market as the pandemic throws a wrench into the works. SpaceNews

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrived at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday for training ahead of his flight to the International Space Station on a Russian-operated spacecraft.

Image: Take away the clouds, bulk up the humans with suits and add an orange-red filter and this could be an image from a future mission to Mars. The actual site, the Corona lava tube in Lanzarote, Spain, is closer than ...