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Astra Space announced April 12 an order of electric thrusters by LeoStella, part of the company's efforts to move beyond launch. The post Astra wins order for electric thrusters from LeoStella appeared first on SpaceNews...

A never-before-flown instrument will allow the James Webb Space Telescope to observe over a hundred distant galaxies at the same time.

While the International Space Station partnership continues, most other Russian space collaborations are in pieces.

The $26 billion NASA budget allocation for 2023 will help advance the agency's Artemis program, space and Earth science efforts, X-plane development, and commercial partnerships.

Improvements Astranis has made to the propulsion systems of four small satellites slated to launch in 2023 will add at least another year to their operational lives, according to CEO John Gedmark. The post Astranis adds ...

A team of Spanish researchers, with support from the ESA, are working on a system that will allow astronauts on Mars to turn wastewater into rocket fuel. The post Martian Astronauts Will Create Fuel by Having a Shower ap...

A new report by the Defense Intelligence Agency notes that the space fleets of China and Russia grew more than 70% in just over two years. The post Defense Intelligence Agency calls attention to China's and Russia's grow...

The 11 astronauts and cosmonauts living aboard the International Space Station today worked on a multitude of science experiments that may improve life for humans on and off the Earth....

The Axiom Astronauts began a full slate of science and outreach activities....

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The two largest reservoirs in the United States are now at their lowest levels since they were first created. After several decades of drought - with the past two years classified as intense drought in the US Southwest �...

Direct images of exoplanets are rare and lack detail. Future observatories might change that, but for now, exoplanet images don’t tell researchers very much. They merely show the presence of the planets as blobs of lig...

Gamma rays could be the new source for observing gravitational waves, according to a recent release from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. This would make a possible third way to observe gravitational waves i...

A gigantic comet is actually the largest ever seen, new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope confirm.

NASA's newest Mars rover and its trusty helicopter companion were spotted all the way from space in a new photo.

Foresail-1, the first satellite from the Finnish Center of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space, is ready for space.

Scott Kelly just launched his first-ever NFT, an art project that went on auction today (April 12) -- with all proceeds from the initial sales going to a nonprofit that's helping Ukraine survive the Russian invasion.

Astronomers have created the most detailed map yet of the magnetic field within one of the Milky Way's galactic bones.

In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You'll be cool in the shade of today’s topic: umbra! Umbra is just the Latin word for "shadow," which is a good thing because it's the...

A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth possesses an intrinsic magnetic field, the planet is surrounded by a lar...

Since 1970, China has launched more than 400 missions, and almost all have used the Long March family of rockets.

An enormous comet--approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island--is heading our way at 22,000 miles per hour from the edge of the solar system. Fortunately, it will never get closer than 1 bil...