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On Tuesday (April 5), SpaceX rolled the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule that will fly the Ax-1 mission out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Data collected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed that a supernova shock wave traveling through the Cassiopeia A nebula is not expanding as evenly as it should be.

Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky has discovered hundreds of asteroids. Now he wants to make his tiny country the second best at spotting unknown space rocks after only the U.S.

Quantum Brilliance, an Australian and German quantum computing startup, is eager to identify space-based applications for its technology. The post Seeking space applications for quantum computers appeared first on SpaceN...

U.S. Space Command needs more access to cutting-edge technology from the private sector, the head of the command Gen. James Dickinson said April 5. The post U.S. Space Command sending strong demand signal for commercial ...

The most likely form of attack facing satellite networks does not happen in space but on the ground, where hackers seek to exploit vulnerabilities. The post Space Force to shore up cybersecurity as threats proliferate ap...

NASA has signed on to send a payload up using a suborbital, kinetic-energy based system developed by California-based company SpinLaunch.

Five universities were chosen by NASA for grants to provide students with opportunities to design research experiments that will be conducted on the International Space Station.

Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered unusual ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet. How and why the ridges formed and what clues they may provide about the history o...

This adorable rodent might hold the key to slowing the aging process in humans.

Leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence agencies more than doubled its procurement of commercial electro-optical imagery The post As Russia prepared to invade, U.S. opened commercial imagery pipelin...

The war in Ukraine is demonstrating the rapid pace of change in modern warfare and underscoring the need for the enhanced missile defense capabilities, said Derek Tournear, director of the Pentagon's Space Development Ag...

When comets first appear near Earth, their bright tails of ionized gas stun observers, but on every subsequent return, they become dimmer.

The two rockets -- NASA's SLS and SpaceX's Falcon 9 -- can be seen together in photos that NASA posted to one of its Flickr accounts today (April 6).

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour sitting atop the Falcon 9 rocket has rolled out to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

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"Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Official Collector's Edition" lands on April 5 from Titan Comics

NASA will stand down for now in its attempt to complete a launch pad test of the massive Artemis moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center, which paves the way for the first all-civilian launch to the International Space Stati...

Unlike the short "joyrides" of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, this mission will be reaching the roughly 400km altitude needed to dock with the ISS.

In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing to the Calypso party song "Hot, Hot, Hot." That's because these bloated Jupiter-sized worlds are ...

Researchers from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported their new findings on the study of pulsating Algol type (EA) eclipsing binaries. A total of 57 new pulsating stars were detected from 1,62...

What if countries don't follow norms of behavior for space operations? The post Consequences for nefarious activity in space appeared first on SpaceNews.