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NASA and Astra Space are targeting no earlier than Sunday, June 12, for the first launch of NASA's Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mis...

NASA will commission a small independent study of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a move the agency says is part of its desire to support risky research that has the potential for high payoffs. The post NASA embrace...

A new SpaceX animation shows how the Starship will dispense the next-generation of Starlink satellites - Pez style! The post Starship Will Spit out Starlinks Like a Candy Dispenser appeared first on Universe Today.

NASA is targeting Saturday, June 18, for the beginning of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with tanking operat...

NASA's Artemis program has inspired a new exhibit and annual Moon2Mars festival at Space Center Houston, the agency's Texas visitor center.

The Shenzhou-14 mission, carrying three Chinese astronauts, docked successfully earlier this week with the Tiangong-3 space station. During their six-month mission on board the station, the new crew hopes to continue wor...

Momentus' newly launched Vigoride space tug has been experiencing some issues in orbit.

The Expedition 67 crew opened up BEAM, the International Space Station's expandable module, today and conducted sensor checks and organized hardware....

The world's largest plane took off for its sixth test flight on Thursday (June 9) but ended up landing before completing all of its flight objectives.

AfterShock Comics releases a brilliant new sci-fi adventure in "Where Starships Go To Die."

Jupiter is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. The amounts of each closely conform to the theoretical quantities in the primordial solar nebula. But it also contains other heavier elements, which astronomers...

SAN FRANCISCO - Launch startup Evolution Space signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a small satellite constellation for optical communications startup Xenesis. Under the $120 million deal signed in May, Evoluti...

Newly discovered fast radio burst (FRB) 190520 shows unique behavior compared to other FRBs discovered so far. This deviant cosmic burst was observed by an international team, co-led by researchers at West Virginia Unive...

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Leaders of NASA's Lucy asteroid mission are increasingly confident that the mission can continue as planned even if ongoing efforts to fully deploy and latch a solar array don't succeed. The post Efforts continue to full...

Frontier Foundry has revealed the release date for the ambitious sequel to 'Deliver Us Moon.'

A new study based on Mars Desert Research Station commanders' reports reveals differences in female and male leadership behavior. Although both genders are task-focused, women tend to be more positive. The genders also d...

Were it not for a difference in our timelines, the title of the season 3 opening episode of "For All Mankind" might have been a spoiler.

Apple TV+ officially launches the Mars-centric Season 3 of "For All Mankind" on June 10, 2022

This radar image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows us the only city-island-nation - Singapore - and one of the busiest ports in the world....

If, as astronomers believe, the deaths of large stars leave behind black holes, there should be hundreds of millions of them scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The problem is, isolated black holes are invisible.

Analysis of Hayabusa2's samples from the asteroid Ryugu shows they date to before the formation of the planets.