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The Sun is active, dynamic, and occasionally violent. Unfortunately our view of the Sun is limited to a small handful of orbiting satellites and ground-based observatories. The Solar Ring is new proposal that hopes to ra...

Virgin Orbit acknowledged it has taken longer than planned to get approvals for its first launch from the United Kingdom but still expects to conduct the mission before the end of the year. The post Virgin Orbit says U.K...

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic may be sued by shareholders, a media report suggests, while Virgin Orbit is bleeding cash ahead of its first launch from the United Kingdom.

Did the skies above you cooperate this morning to see the total lunar eclipse? Mine did not, and Fraser reports he was clouded out as well. But thankfully, we can live vicariously through all of the wonderful friends and...

China's Tiangong space station just received its final module, the Mengtian laboratory, making it complete, The post China Launches Mengtian, the Last Major Module to its Space Station appeared first on Universe Today.

Canada's Telesat is relocating an in-orbit C-band satellite it bought from another operator as thruster issues force its Anik F2 spacecraft into early retirement. The post Telesat buys in-orbit satellite to help cover An...

DARPA's RSGS satellite-servicing payload has completed key tests and is on track to be integrated with a Northrop Grumman spacecraft next year and launch to orbit in 2024 The post DARPA's robot could start servicing sate...

By sheer chance, astronomers have spotted the stripped core of a star that was once 12 times the mass of the sun during a stage of stellar evolution that lasts the blink of a cosmic eye.

Canopy Aerospace plans to set up a pilot factory in Denver to produce thermal protection systems (TPS) for rockets, spacecraft, reentry capsules and hypersonic vehicles. The post Canopy Aerospace to supply thermal protec...

NASA's huge Artemis 1 moon rocket stares up at its blood-red target in amazing lunar eclipse photos posted by the space agency today (Nov. 8).

The last of NASA's space shuttle crew cabin mockups to leave the training room floor has arrived at its new home, the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is widely referred to as the successor to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In reality, it is the successor to a lot more than that. With the inclusion of the Mid-InfraRed I...

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada voted in the U.S. midterms from a bunk bed aboard the International Space Station, joining an elite cadre of people who cast their ballots from orbit.

When we think about finding life beyond Earth, especially on exoplanets, we immediately want to search for the next Earth, or Earth 2.0. We want an exoplanet that orbits a star firmly in its habitable zone (HZ) with vast...

All stars are composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, but most stars also have measurable amounts of heavier elements, which astronomers lump into the category of "metals." Our sun has more metals than most stars because...

The James Webb Space Telescope's supercold camera MIRI is back in full science mode after a technical problem on its grating wheel forced scientists to halt some observations.

By combining written texts, folklore, and astronomical calculations, a team of researchers at Nagoya University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Otaru University of Commerce identified, examined, and ...

Scientists have sent a batch of seeds to the International Space Station to create new strains of agricultural plants resistant to climate change.

Cognitive Space won a $1.2 million contract extension to continue development of the company's satellite tasking software for the Air Force Research Laboratory. The post Cognitive Space gets $1.2 million U.S. Air Force c...

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) was not the only mega-moon rocket to recently roll out at the agency's Florida spaceport -- albeit the other was considerably smaller and much more tasty.

A team of researchers with members from Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidad Andres Bello has found evidence of a large extragalactic assembly hiding behind one part...

NASA has begun the contracting process for the next-generation lunar rover to be used during the Artemia Moon missions, starting in 2024.