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Lawmakers in the 2023 NDAA recommended that the Space Force and Space Development Agency use a "common launch integrator" to manage rideshares The post As DoD shifts to smaller satellites, new questions emerge on how to ...

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Despite astronomy's success in detecting worlds outside the solar system, there is a troubling gap in the exoplanet catalog. New research may show why Neptune-sized exoplanets are tough to locate.

The European Space Agency will seek funding this fall for a feasibility study of space-based solar power, the latest sign of support for a concept that still faces significant technical and financial challenges. The post...

An international team of researchers has found a strain of cyanobacteria that could produce biomass on Mars and grow food for astronauts! The post Cyanobacteria Will be our Best Partner for Living on Mars appeared first ...

Industry's attention is shifting to a larger class of rockets, sometimes called "mini-launchers" capable of placing about a metric ton into orbit. The post Big plans for mini-launchers appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA has selected 13 regions around the south pole of the moon that it is considering for the first crewed landing of the Artemis program later this decade. The post NASA selects potential lunar landing sites for Artemis...

Debris from the most spectacular comet outburst ever is visible from Earth this month and astronomers hope the observations might shed light on the puzzling event that brightened up the sky in 2007.

Rocket Lab aims to send a probe to Venus soon, and a new paper lays out the details of the ambitious mission.

A loud explosion heard Saturday (Aug. 13) in Utah may have been an exploding Perseid meteor.

On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going to show us, for the first time, what the outer solar system planets looked like close-up. It w...

We now know where on the moon NASA astronauts will set foot after more than 50 years' absence.

Scientists show that the pests are programmed to sleep at around midday, when the weather is warmest.

With NASA's first Artemis mission to the moon set to launch before the end of the month, teams are gearing up for future missions with astronauts including just exactly where the next people to set foot on the moon will ...

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver surprise after surprise. Next up, a team of astronomers have identified likely candidates for proto-globular clusters. Clusters like these can help astronomers understa...

Recent weeks and months have seen growing activity among satellite network operators keen to integrate the soon-to-be-available LEO-derived bandwidth with existing GEO services. The post Op-ed | Satellite industry consol...

Solar flares are solar storm events driven by magnetic field in the solar activity area. When this flare radiation comes to the Earth's vicinity, the photo-ionization increases the electron density in the D-layer of the ...

The most massive known star in the universe has been photographed in the greatest detail to date and it might be smaller than astronomers previously thought.

Mientras la NASA se prepara para enviar astronautas a la Luna con el programa Artemis, la agencia ha identificado 13 regiones candidatas para aterrizar cerca del polo sur lunar.

In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington, Valdosta State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the National Radio Astrono...

Astronomers at Western Sydney University have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky.

Four astrophysics mission proposals to study stars, galaxies and some of the most violent explosions in the universe have been selected for further study by NASA.