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Space launch startup Launcher said its first spacecraft, which launched on a SpaceX rocket last month, has failed.

The U.S. Space Force on Feb. 16 released its procurement strategy for the next national security launch services contracts expected to be awarded in 2024. The post Space Force to change how it buys national security laun...

The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting in unexpected ways that could lead to its rapid collapse, a new study has revealed.

The object blasted out of the sky over the Yukon on Feb. 11 may have been an amateur radio pico balloon -- specifically, a 33-inch-wide one called K9YO-15.

The Visible and Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the recently launched NOAA-21 satellite started collecting Earth science data from its day-night band (DNB) and its thermal emissive bands (TEB) on Feb. 9, 202...

After completing the first sample depot on another world, the rover continues its hunt for Mars rocks worthy of study on Earth.

To study how stars and planets are born we have to look at star cradles hidden in cool clouds of dust. Far-infrared telescopes are able to pierce through those clouds. Conventionally, niobium nitride bolometers are used ...

When you go to space, it’s going to change your brain. Count on it. That’s because space travelers enter microgravity, and that challenges everything the brain knows about gravity. The experience alters their brain f...

A popular public website that tracks activities on NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has been taken offline for what NASA calls a "cybersecurity review" linked to future Artemis missions. The post NASA conducting cybersecu...

AI will transform how decisions are made across every human activity, especially as nations begin to further operate and compete in space. The post Op-ed | Enlisting AI to secure the space domain appeared first on SpaceN...

SpaceX launched 51 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Friday (Feb. 17), acing the first of two orbital missions the company has planned for the day.

Kilonova explosions are almost perfectly spherical, which could help us study cosmic expansion. The post When Neutron Stars Collide, the Explosion is Perfectly Spherical appeared first on Universe Today.

The moon will meet up with the closest planet to the sun Mercury on Saturday, as the two celestial bodies meet in conjunction in the morning sky.

For companies who provide unique capabilities, or deliver sophisticated platforms or components to the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, or NASA, inflationary pressures and delivery delays are seriously ...

There's apparently a dearth of close-orbiting Neptune-size planets in our galaxy, and two observation techniques are starting to explain why.

The FAA announced Feb. 17 it is seeking to fine SpaceX $175,000 for failing to provide collision avoidance data before a Falcon 9 launch last year. The post FAA proposes fining SpaceX for missing launch data appeared fir...

Days after the Chinese spy balloon was shot down by the U.S. military off the coast of South Carolina, AI startup Synthetaic backtracked the balloon's trajectory across the continental United States using Earth imaging d...

Venus and Jupiter should make for a very striking visual spectacle, no doubt attracting the attention of even those who don't give more than a casual glance at the night sky.

More than half the cubesats that launched on Artemis 1 in November have suffered problems, underlining the myriad challenges facing small satellites beyond Earth's orbit. The post Deep space smallsats face big challenges...

Kathleen Mandt, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory has published a Perspectives piece in the journal Science arguing that NASA should send a dedicated probe to the planet Uranu...

Apple TV+'s enticing new sci-fi series, "Hello Tomorrow!" delivers a shiny retro-future for space fans who dream of living on the moon.

Gas clouds in the Cygnus X Region, a region where stars form, are composed of a dense core of molecular hydrogen (H2) and an atomic shell. These ensembles of clouds interact with each other dynamically in order to quickl...