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It took 30 years to find so many alien worlds, but the pace of discovery is accelerating.

Lockheed Martin plans to launch to orbit later this year a new satellite bus the company designed for both the commercial and government markets. The post Lockheed Martin to launch new satellite bus aimed at mid-size mar...

China is looking to spark interest in space tourism by opening its soon-to-be-completed Tiangong space station to everyday citizens.

NASA is preparing to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s. The 3-year mission will expose astronauts to a long period of microgravity, which will cause them to lose bone mass. But now, scientists report transgenic l...

A Soyuz rocket topped with the Meridian-M satellite launched today (March 22) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia.

Mission managers have given the go for two astronauts to exit the International Space Station on Wednesday for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk....

Here's everything you need to know about Blue Origin's launch of six people aboard its New Shepard spacecraft on March 29, 2022.

Changes in the geopolitical landscape following Russia's war in Ukraine are pushing space companies to tighten international supply chains amid a renewed focus on security. The post Satellite supply chains coming under i...

Swarm Technologies was the unidentified customer of an Astra Space launch this month that placed 16 of its tiny satellites into orbit. The post Swarm launched satellites on Astra mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

As space becomes increasingly important to military operations, DoD should address supply risks in the space sector given the volatility of the market, experts said. The post U.S. government urged to address supply risks...

This impressive image shows the strangely lopsided spiral galaxy NGC 772, which lies over 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Aries. Captured by the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i, one half of the ...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 23, to provide an update on the agency's goals to transport astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon under Artemis.

A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions of galaxies strewn across space and time. The missi...

Making use of the LAMOST spectra data as the training sample, a research team led by Dr. Wang Shoucheng and Prof. Ma Jun from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) proposed a new metho...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted China's Zhurong rover down on the surface, providing an epic overview of the vehicle's travels through the red dirt.

The Moon is the most studied object in space. But our nearest neighbour still holds a few mysteries. One of those mysteries is the lunar swirls. These strange serpentine features are brighter than their surroundings and ...

Editor Marc Boucher recently had the opportunity to speak with Marc Bell, CEO of Terran Orbital for the Space Economy podcast....

There are now more than 5,000 known planets in the universe, and we're just getting started. The post It's Confirmed. We now Know of More Than 5,000 Exoplanets appeared first on Universe Today.

Comet Leonard, the brightest comet of 2021 has disintegrated, according to EarthSky.

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In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from "tiger stripe" fissures near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus--sometimes as much as 200 kilograms of water per second. A new study sug...

Asteroids hold many clues about the formation and evolution of planets and their satellites. Understanding their history can, therefore, reveal much about our solar system. While observations made from a distance using e...