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Construction of the SaxaVord spaceport on the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland is set to begin soon with the aim of hosting the first British vertical orbital launch later this year.

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced April 11 it has received an order from United Launch Alliance for 116 engines for the upper stage of ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket. The post ULA orders 116 Aerojet Rocketdyne engines for Vulcan...

The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side....

NASA has awarded a contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to provide the agency's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California with support services for ground-based aerospace test facilities a...

Area 51 is a U.S. military base that has become synonymous with tales of UFOs, government cover-ups and potentially testing alien technology.

More than 13 months after the Perseverance rover landed on Mars (on February 18, 2021), the rover's cameras have finally spotted some of the parts of the Mars 2020 landing system that got the rover safely to the ground. ...

On Feb. 14, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which is in the first few months of its journey to the Trojan asteroids, obtained a series of calibration images with its four visible-light cameras. The first test images were taken i...

It was very busy on the International Space Station on Monday with the orbiting lab hosting 11 crew members including the four-member Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) crew....

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is using its self-driving capabilities as it treks across Jezero Crater seeking signs of ancient life and gathering rock and soil samples for planned return to Earth.

Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a supernova that exploded 11,000 light-years away. The light from the exploding star likely reached Earth around 1670 (only a couple of years before Newton invented the reflecting telescope...

The SpaceNews editorial team produced four show dailies, a nightly email newsletter and all-day web coverage during the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs the week of April 4. We've compiled all our reporting into ...

The Hubble space telescope has a primary mirror of 2.4 meters. The Nancy Grace Roman telescope also has a mirror measuring 2.4 meters, and the James Webb Space Telescope has a whopping 6.5 meter primary mirror. They get ...

After decades of drought, water levels in Lake Powell, the second-largest human-made reservoir in the United States, have shrunk to its lowest level since it was created more than 50 years ago, threatening millions of pe...

This artificial bone sample is an early step towards making 3D bioprinting a practical tool for emergency medicine in space. An ESA R&D effort aims to develop bioprinting techniques capable of giving astronauts on an ext...

China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe successfully landed on the Utopia Plain at 7:18 a.m. Beijing Time, on 15 May 2021. The success rate of Mars missions is about 50%, and most failures occur during the entry, descent, and landi...

Instead of having a dedicated reserve force, the U.S. Space Force would have a regular active-duty force with full-time and part-time members, according to a proposal the Department of the Air Force submitted to Congress...

Season three of the alternate history series "For All Mankind" debuts June 10 on Apple TV Plus. A new teaser offers a first look at the upcoming season as the space race moves from the moon to Mars.

The first solar eclipse of 2022 is less than a month away, occurring on April 30 across parts of Antarctica, the southern tip of South America and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

After revolutionizing the launch industry through vertical integration, SpaceX hopes to do the same for satellite broadband with its Starlink megaconstellation. The post Connecting the Dots | Diverging NGSO distribution ...

Video: 01:26:47 Watch the replay of our live Q&A media session (In English and Italian) with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Samantha is scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station from NASA's Kenne...

The Houston Astros are celebrating their city's connection to space exploration with a new uniform inspired by NASA's astronaut wear and materials. The team debuted their "Space City" uniforms.

Physicists have become keenly interested in the first billion years of the universe--the stretch between the Big Bang and the formation of the first stars during which galaxies began to form. During the last 600 million ...