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Filmmaker Hashem Al-Ghaili has created a micro-budget sci-fi film with amazing visual effects in 'Orbital.'

The European Space Agency is considering ways to redesign a major X-ray space telescope after a number of ESA member states have backed out of the project.

SpaceLink signed an agreement with the U.S. Army to explore ways to use the company's data-relay constellation to deliver commercial satellite imagery directly to troops on the ground. The post SpaceLink and U.S. Army to...

While NASA's much-lauded Space Launch System stands ready for its maiden flight later this month with the goal of sending astronauts back to the Moon in the next few years, our gazes once again turn to the stars as we co...

Canadian launch startup SpaceRyde said Aug. 8 it has added a second member to its advisory board with the appointment of Mina Mitry, the CEO of small satellite operator Kepler Communications. The post Launch startup Spac...

NASA's water-scouting CubeSat is now poised to hitch a ride to lunar orbit. Not much bigger than a shoe box, Lunar IceCube's data will have an outsized impact on lunar science.

Rocket Lab's launch of a NASA lunar cubesat mission lived up to its name, serving as a capstone for the company's efforts to develop end-to-end space systems and interplanetary missions, according to its chief executive....

The Miniaturized In-vivo Robotic Assistant (MIRA) is getting ready to fly to the ISS and evaluate if robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) will work in space! The post A Remote Surgical Robot is Going to the International Space...

SpaceX's massive "Booster 7" Super Heavy rocket prototype moved back to the launch pad Aug. 5 and 6 to prep for an orbital test flight with Starship later this year.

Soviet-era cosmonaut Anatoly Filipchenko, who launched on two docking tests, first for a possible Russian moon landing and then the first joint flight with the United States, has died at age 94.

When a small asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere from space, its surface is brutally heated, causing melting and fragmenting. Therefore, why the rocks near the surface survive to the ground as meteorites has been somewhat...

If you're worried about the full moon washing out the Perseid meteor shower peak Aug. 12, go out now. NASA cameras have already spotted 'shooting stars.'

The first agency assignments, for Artemis 2, should be announced later in 2022.

NASA is investigating alternative ways to launch four Earth science cubesats after Astra discontinued the rocket originally contracted to launch them. The post NASA looking for new launch of remaining TROPICS cubesats ap...

Ticket sales for NASA's next moonbound launch briefly overwhelmed the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's website, but officials quickly addressed it.

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts are getting the country's new space station module ready to host crews over the next decade.

Rapidly evolving technology and space debris reported in several places around the world--including pieces of a Chinese Long March 5B Rocket in the Indian Ocean--signal the need for a new era for regulation of space, Fli...

Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace announced Aug. 8 that they will work together to develop a new first stage for Northrop's Antares launch vehicle as well as a future medium-lift rocket. The post Northrop Grumman an...

Stardust provides the building blocks that form new stars and planets. New research shows a significant proportion of this stellar material may have been left in the solar system by giant stars going supernova.

The Space Force has conducted a demonstration using "robot dogs" for security patrols and other repetitive tasks.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged globular cluster NGC 6638, located in the constellation Sagittarius.

The shifting of geological faults in the subsurface of the Earth forged the oxygen, a study suggests.