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Solar wind is blowing from the sun with unusual intensity these days, and space weather forecasters think it might make polar lights brighter.

The companies plan to deliver variants of Boom's Overture aircraft for military and emergency response missions.

German launch services startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has taken a new step in the development of an orbital launcher with the hot fire test of its Helix engine.

Mattel has entered into a multi-year agreement with SpaceX to create and market toys based on SpaceX rockets and spacecraft.

Gemini South, one of the world's most productive and powerful optical-infrared telescopes, has received a major capability boost with the successful installation of a new high-resolution spectrograph called GHOST constru...

NASA has reserved three days in late August and early September for the first launch of its Space Launch System rocket to send the Orion spacecraft to orbit around the moon and back. The post NASA sets late August and ea...

NASA is considering sending "hyper-specialized" scientists to the International Space Station to work alongside career astronauts.

Using data collected over two decades ago, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have compiled the first complete map of hydrogen abundances on the Moon's surface. The ma...

A recently-released report examines the James Webb Space Telescope's performance and discusses the micrometeoroid impacts that could threaten the mission The post You can see Where JWST Took a Direct hit From a Micromete...

China launched the SuperView Neo 2 (01) and (02) commercial sensing satellites into near-polar orbit with its 24th orbital launch of 2022.

The latest image release from ESA's Mars Express takes us over two ruptures in the Martian crust that form part of the mighty Valles Marineris canyon system.

NASA is reviewing its mission to visit the asteroid 16 Psyche. The Administration has convened a 15-member review board to examine the mission and its failure to meet the scheduled 2022 launch. The review began on July 1...

NASA chose SpaceX's heavy-lift rocket to send a wide-field telescope into space that will search for dark matter.

A new statue of an Apollo astronaut now stands near NASA in Houston, just in time for the anniversary of the first moon landing. To find it, just follow the Golden Arches.

With searing temperatures and a string of record highs being smashed across western Europe, the current heatwave is all too apparent. Extreme heat warnings have been issued in several countries including France, Spain an...

University of Michigan researchers will play a central role in NASA's upcoming Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission--a first-of-its-kind look at a protective outer layer of Earth's atmosphere and how it interacts with...

Scientists who study exoplanets explain how the James Webb Space Telescope will study exoplanet atmospheres.

The DARPA-funded Red-Eye experiment demonstrated capabilities such as on-board data processing, inter-satellite communications and software-defined radios. The post Millennium Space reveals results of DARPA's ‘Red-Eye�...

If you've ever made an origami paper crane, using folds and creases to transform a square piece of craft paper into the delicate long-necked bird, it may seem odd that those same folding techniques are being used to deve...

In recent years, a large number of exoplanets have been found around single "normal" stars. New research shows that there may be exceptions to this trend. Researchers from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL),...

In the early hours of Thursday (July 21) morning, the waning crescent moon will pass close to Mars. They will be close enough to share the view in binoculars.

An analysis of fossil remains reveals a species of ancient "fishapod" that transitioned to land only to return to the water.