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The European Space Agency (ESA) is pushing for its members to back a program to allow it to independently send astronauts to space and set ambitious, long-term human exploration goals.

ISS crew: "Welcomed the S.S. Piers Sellers cargo vehicle to the International Space Station yesterday."...

After reanalyzing data from the LRO mission, a team of scientists has determined that water ice observed in a lunar crater was deposited by a comet less than one billion years ago. The post One Crater on the Moon is Fill...

Virgin Galactic executives said Feb. 22 that they remain on schedule to begin commercial human suborbital missions before the end of the year but acknowledged it will take several years for the company to become profitab...

"NACHOS" flew to space aboard the 17th Cygnus resupply mission for the space station on Saturday (Feb. 19).

Washington state's space economy is booming. The post Washington state space economy more than doubles appeared first on SpaceNews.

What is a "morning star," and what is an "evening star"? Aren't they all planets? Can a planet sometimes be both of those things, or neither? Here's the complete guide for understanding these stargazing terms.

What does the invasion in Ukraine mean for Europe's space partnership with Russia, and can business continue as usual despite European countries rolling out economic sanctions?

The situation is sensitive and complicated, given that Russia is a key partner in the International Space Station and also supplies engines for two high-profile U.S. launch companies.

We've long known a disaster took place about 66 million years ago, where in a geological instant, 75% of the plants and animals on Earth were wiped out, including all the land-roaming dinosaurs. But here's a new detail a...

The director of the National Reconnaissance Office Christopher Scolese warned that satellites in space could be targeted by Russia's military in an effort to disrupt communications and GPS services. The post NRO chief wa...

A head-on collision between galaxies has created a vast, cosmic triangle in deep space glittering with star formation in a new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A rocket stage expected to impact the moon is still most likely to belong to China's 2014 moon mission, despite a denial from the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The post Moon-bound rocket stage still most likely ...

A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System's history could help scientists reconstruct how and when planets were born.

NASA and HeroX have launched Phase II of their Watts on the Moon Challenge, which will reward a total of $4.5 million for idea on how to distribute and store power for future lunar missions. The post NASA is Upping the P...

Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two supermassive black holes appear to be orbiting around each other every two years. The two giant bodies each have masses that are hundreds of millions of time...

IDW Publishing honors the 40th anniversary of Dave Stevens' "The Rocketeer" with a soaring miniseries starting this April.

Members of the media and public are invited to participate in NASA's imaginAviation, a three-day virtual event that will focus on the future transformation of aviation that begins Tuesday, March 1.

Quantum mechanics tells us that the forces of nature come in discrete, tiny chunks. Gravity, the bending of space-time, is a force. So is space-time quantized as well?

Selfies have become ubiquitous everywhere – even Mars. Now, the Tianwen 1 orbiter is getting into the spirit with a selfie taken high up in Martian orbit. Tianwen didn't just use an ordinary, run-of-the-mill selfie sti...

Engineers for the James Webb Space Telescope are in the midst of an intricate, three-month-long process of aligning the telescope's 18 separate mirror segments to work together as one giant, high-precision 6.5-meter (21....

A recent study looked at stellar streams hidden in Gaia's data, to uncover a torturous past. The post Gaia Finds Ancient Satellite Galaxy Pontus Embedded in Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.