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On Monday (Feb. 27) VMS Eve flew from California's Mojave Air and Space Port to Spaceport America in New Mexico, the hub of Virgin Galactic's commercial operations.

The Virtual Telescope Project will show the two planets meeting in the night sky on Wednesday (March 1) and Thursday (March 2). Here's how to watch.

Technological revolutions can bring about dramatic changes in various fields, some of which are only tangentially related to the field being disrupted. Occasionally, a few technological revolutions happen simultaneously,...

Emerging communications services that connect phones directly to satellites are attractive to military users that operate in locations where there is no cellular network connectivity The post DoD interested in smartphone...

When NASA crashed a 610 kg (1,340 lb) impactor into tiny Dimorphos, a moon of the asteroid Didymos, it was all part of an effort to defend Earth. The impact showed how asteroids respond to impacts, and the data is helpin...

You can catch an incredibly close view of these worlds for 2 hours after sunset tonight (March 1).

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into a small space rock last year, and the effects were visible from Earth orbit.

Rocket Lab is reconsidering the use of mid-air recovery of Electron boosters as part of its efforts to reuse the vehicle. The post Rocket Lab reconsidering mid-air recovery of Electron boosters appeared first on SpaceNew...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is to make a second attempt on Thursday to blast off for the International Space Station carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and the second Emirati to voyage to space.

What time is it on the moon? The dawn of a new era of space exploration means space agencies may need to decide on a common "lunar time."

NASA has awarded the Systems Engineering Advanced Services (SEAS) II contract to McCallie Associates, Inc., of Bellevue, Nebraska.

Earth experienced the most powerful solar storm of the current solar cycle last month, causing auroras to spread far away from their usual polar haunts. These are some of the most interesting sightings.

Astronomers have determined that so-called “leaky” galaxies may have responsible for triggering the last great transformational epoch in our universe, one which ionized the neutral interstellar gas. Billions of years...

Image: Atom-scale scan of space materials

When is 50,000 light-years only a small distance? When three galaxies are that close to one another. At that range, they’re fiercely interacting. In the case of the three galaxies referred to as SDSSCGB 10189, they’r...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission have found out a great deal about its target space rock, and about planetary defense in general.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft can be retrofit for missions to the International Space Station and for free-flying Earth orbiting opportunities.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:34 a.m. EST Thursday, March 2, to launch the Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will be from Laun...

The tattered shell of the first-ever historically recorded supernova was captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Víctor M. Blanc...

Stars are formed by molecular gas and dust coalescing in space. These molecular gases are so dilute and cold that they are invisible to the human eye, but they do emit faint radio waves that can be observed by radio tele...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was Earth's first attempt at launching a spacecraft to intentionally collide with and deflect an asteroid as a planetary defense technique. On September 26, 2022, the DART s...

In 2022 NASA embarked on a bold experiment to see if they could change an asteroid's velocity by smacking it with a ballistic probe--kind of like hitting it with a hammer. This experiment was to test a potential techniqu...