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Virgin Orbit now expects to perform four launches this year, at the low end of earlier projections, but with a higher per-launch revenue. The post Virgin Orbit reduces launch forecast while increasing per-launch revenue ...

Earth has experienced five mass extinction events over its 4.5 billion-year history. A sixth mass extinction is underway as a result of human-driven climate change.

While there have been successful projects demonstrating readily available industry capability, the Department of Defense has not yet successfully institutionalized the imperative of responsive space The post Op-ed | DoD ...

Studying unusual processes of how ice accumulates below ice shelves here on Earth could hold lessons for the exploration and habitability of Jupiter's moon Europa.

The Lunar IceCube and Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) missions will search the moon for water using two different techniques.

NASA will hold a community town hall meeting with Associate Administrator for Science Thomas H. Zurbuchen and his leadership team at 12:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 17.

Astronomers hope to use pulsars scattered around the galaxy as a giant gravitational wave detector. But why do we need them, and how do they work?

This great big solar system has plenty of secrets to tell. Just recently, NASA's new James Webb Telescope dazzled us mere Earthlings with the first images released to date of galaxies eons in the past.

Anyone can name a star online, but the International Astronomical Union is offering a rare space opportunity: to name a planet discovered by the groundbreaking James Webb Telescope.

A prototype of the lunar rover demonstrated its capabilities in navigating the moon's challenging terrain.

An interview with British sound designer Johnnie Burn on his masterful work for the sci-fi film "Nope."

Below Europa's thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines. The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves on Earth, but a new s...

The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command awarded SpaceX a $1.9 million one-year contract to provide Starlink internet services in Europe and Africa starting this month. The post SpaceX gets $1.9 million Air Force co...

NASA will roll out its massive rocket for a flight around the moon earlier than planned.

Astronomers have conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a binary system known as TIC 60040774. Results of the observational campaign shed more light on the properties of this system, revealing that it is...

At 'supercriticality,' the difference between the liquid and gas phases of a material seems to disappear. New research finds that this weird tipping point may be simpler than scientists thought.

It's one of the stranger sights of the modern Space Age. Recently, we found ourselves under the relatively dark skies of southern Spain. Sure enough, within a few minutes, we caught sight of a chain of flashing "stars" w...

Dark energy could be caused by pressure from giant voids of nothingness that may be flinging the universe apart.

It's not easy to fry an egg on the sidewalk, but if you want to take a crack at it, here are some things you need to know.

With mirrorless cameras rapidly gaining popularity, is it still worth investing in a DSLR camera?

Director Paul W.S. Anderson recalls making Event Horizon for the sci-fi classic's 25th birthday

Hubble Space Telescope delivers a stunning new image of stellar gas and dust in the Orion Nebula