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By performing a series of real and 'fake' flybys, ESA's Mars Express has revealed how Mars' largest moon, Phobos, interacts with the solar wind of charged particles thrown out by the Sun - and spotted an elusive process ...

Recently completed tests of two propellant tanks set a first technological milestone in the ESA reusability roadmap towards the demonstration of a reusable first stage vehicle called Themis.

Little space lovers can have hours of fun pretending to be astronauts exploring the cosmos with this circuit-learning set.

Administration officials used a National Space Council meeting to issue a new round of criticism of Russia's antisatellite weapon test and call for a halt to future ASAT tests that create debris. SpaceNews

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A live webcast will track a newly found bright Comet Leonard star cluster in the Earth's sky and you can watch it live.

NASA has awarded the Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) to Northrop Grumman of Brigham City, Utah, to build boosters for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to support nine SLS flights.

A newfound alien world could shed some light on one of the darkest and strangest corners of the exoplanet family tree.

For the 19th mission of the New Shepard rocket, Blue Origin has offered a seat to Alan Shepard's eldest daughter - Laura Shepard Churchley! The post Alan Shepard's Daughter Will be Flying on the Next New Shepard Flight a...

Northrop Grumman Corporation , signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA under the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development program for $125.6 million to design a safe, reliable and cost-effective commercial free-flying space...

Orbital Reef, led by partners Blue Origin and Sierra Space, was selected today by NASA for a funded Space Act Agreement for collaboration to design a commercially owned and operated space station in low Earth orbit (LEO)...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch and space systems company, today revealed new details about the next generation Neutron launch vehicle in a virtual event streamed via Rocket Lab's YouTube channel at ...

NASA has signed agreements with three U.S. companies to develop designs of space stations and other commercial destinations in space.

Ultra-short-period planets are small, compact worlds that whip around their stars at close range, completing an orbit--and a single, scorching year--in less than 24 hours. How these planets came to be in such extreme con...

SpaceX will launch its next stack of Starlink satellites from the East Coast tonight (Dec. 2) as part of a rideshare mission, and you can watch the action live online.

Engineers only get one shot at making a spacecraft work as intended.  Or at least they only get one shot in space.  In the preparation leading up to that final, climactic moment, there are typically thousands of hours ...

Two NASA astronauts on a spacewalk replaced a faulty antenna outside the International Space Station Thursday (Dec. 2), restoring one of the ways the orbiting outpost communicates with Earth.

RocketLab's next-generation reusable Neutron rocket will operate like an aircraft.

An international team of scientists, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate together with other institutions from Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, UK, and Mexico, has been ab...

Spacewalking astronauts replaced a broken antenna outside the International Space Station on Thursday after getting NASA's all-clear for orbiting debris.

This weekend, the shadow of the Moon graces the Earth one last time for the year. The post Our Guide to the Only Total Solar Eclipse of 2021 appeared first on Universe Today.

Sky Tonight, from the people behind Star Walk, gives an AR look at the best bits of the night sky you can see tonight