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Work to assemble a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket is underway at Wenchang spaceport as China prepares to complete the construction of its Tiangong space station. The post China begins launch campaign for final space sta...

While hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the Space Coast two weekends in a row for a shot to see the most powerful rocket to ever lift off from Earth, a couple of scrubs for NASA's Artemis I mission left t...

The interiors of the solar system's ice giants, Neptune and Uranus, could experience an exotic form of precipitation, and these 'diamond rains' could be more common than previously thought.

Astronauts with their sights on the moon are receiving world-class geology training during the fifth edition of ESA's Pangaea campaign. From choosing landing sites for a future Artemis mission, to designing science opera...

The sun-exploring Solar Orbiter spacecraft came face to face with a massive eruption of plasma from the sun, just ahead of a pivotal flyby of Venus.

Green sand might sound like a strange thing to find on the Red Planet, but that is exactly what a new paper from researchers led by a team at Purdue found in images from Perseverance. The findings, published recently in ...

Private spaceflight is taking off, though some are going faster than others. As SpaceX preps for its sixth crewed launch on a NASA contract, their rival Boeing has announced that they will be delaying the first crewed fl...

The researchers stored astronaut blood for 20 years to see how short space shuttle flights affected spaceflyer health.

In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age

The DJI Avata makes FPV video accessible to the masses thanks to an impressive drone that's capable of satisfying the needs of both beginners and highly-skilled FPV drone pilots.

The Mars Express spacecraft captured new images of the Holden Basin on Mars, a key area in the search for ancient life on the Red Planet.

Reusable rocket engines have become all the rage lately, even as NASA's continually delayed Artemis I mission attempts to launch with non-reusable technology. Realistically, the only way to significantly lower launch cos...

The company is pivoting to a new launch vehicle after multiple failures, including one in June that destroyed two hurricane-tracking NASA satellites.

Life on Venus, or the possibility thereof, has been a hot topic as of late. There's also been plenty of controversies, including the (still disputed) discovery of phosphine, a potential biomarker in the atmosphere. The b...

China launched a mysterious spy satellite that will "monitor land, crop yield and natural disasters" but could also gather military intelligence, analysts think.

An interdisciplinary team centered around a Jena astrophysicist utilized observations from antiquity to prove that Betelgeuse--the bright red giant star in the upper left of the constellation Orion--was yellow-orange som...

This glittering gathering of stars is the globular cluster NGC 6558, and it was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. NGC 6558 is closer to the center of the Milky Way than Earth ...

Saber Astronautics announced Sept. 5 the U.S. Space Force has extended the company's contract to develop a space domain awareness tool designed for satellite operators. The post Space Force extends Saber Astronautics' co...

Violent activity on the sun last week resulted in stunning views for observers in the northern hemisphere over the weekend.

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The brightest planet in the night sky, Venus, will appear by the brightest star of the constellation Leo, Regulus , on and around Labor Day (Sept. 5).

NASA has revamped its "Eyes on the Solar System" 3D visualization tool, making interplanetary travel easier and more interactive than ever. More than two years in the making, the update delivers better controls, improved...