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Lockheed Martin announced Feb. 13 it has decided to terminate a $4.4 billion deal to acquire rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne. The post Lockheed Martin terminates agreement to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne appe...

SpaceX's entire business model is based on the reusability of its rockets. That business model has proven viable time and time again as boosters continue to land safely only to be reused later. But as the rockets they're...

A new Russian cargo ship will blast off Monday (Feb. 14) with tons of supplies and equipment for the Expedition 66 crew. Here's how you can watch it live.

A rocket set to hit the moon March 4 might not be from SpaceX after all, astronomers now say. It may be a Chinese rocket stage.

When NASA's Perseverance Mars rover tried to collect its first rock core sample last August, the outcome presented a puzzle for the mission team: The rover's sample tube came up empty. But why?

SpaceX aims to make progress in space and on Earth with its new venture, the Polaris Program. And the team behind it couldn't be more excited.

Luxembourg-based SES said Feb. 14 it has formed a joint venture with India's largest telecoms operator to provide multi-orbit connectivity in the country. The post SES forges Indian satellite capacity joint venture appea...

Some planets end by colliding with the remnant of their once shining star. The post Astronomers see Dead Planets Crashing Into Dead Stars appeared first on Universe Today.

The first orbital launch of SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket has been pushed back by at least another month.

The billionaire commander of SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission is flying back to space again with a set of new crewmates.

NASA has put together some freely available e-cards that feature iconic space photos with special Valentine's Day messages attached.

Large galaxies may steal dark matter from smaller galaxies they nearly collide with, new research suggests.

Where did Earth’s water come from? That’s one of the most compelling questions in the ongoing effort to understand life’s emergence. Earth’s inner solar system location was too hot for water to condense onto the ...

In a new Nature Astronomy study, an international team led by astrophysicists from the University of California, Irvine and Pomona College report how, when tiny galaxies collide with bigger ones, the bigger galaxies can ...

Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who chartered the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, announced Monday three more private missions with SpaceX--which will include spacewalking and culminate in the first crewed flight of ...

Astronomers famously snapped the first ever direct image of a black hole in 2019, thanks to material glowing in its presence. But many black holes are actually near impossible to detect. Now another team using the Hubble...

An international team of astronomers has performed spectroscopic observations of a nearby Type I superluminous supernova known as SN 2018bsz. The observational campaign sheds more light on the properties of this supernov...

A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning. It is possible that the stars might have...

Joseph Dunford, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general and senior managing director of Liberty Strategic Capital, has joined the board of directors of Satellogic. The post Satellogic names former chair of the Pentagon's joi...

A newly established group called the Moon Farside Protection Permanent Committee has begun framing issues and solutions to guard against RFI corruption of the moon's far side.

It's not terrible; it's just not as good as it could've been. And it could've been really good

The thorny flowers sometimes mean more than just a romantic gesture.