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Flying chunks of concrete, twisted metal sheets, craters blasted deep into the ground: the thunderous power of SpaceX's first test flight of Starship--the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built--inflicted serious da...

In the hunt for habitable worlds around other stars, planetary atmospheres provide fertile places to look. But, as a group of scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Studies in Germany found, maybe astron...

Japanese company ispace will attempt the first-ever private landing on the moon April 25, and you can watch the whole thing live.

Rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major announced April 24 that Astra Space selected the company's Hadley liquid engine to power the upper stage of its new Rocket 4 launch vehicle. The post Ursa Major to supply upper-stage ...

The asteroid-like Deimos may have come from planet Mars, according to new data from an Emirati spacecraft. But the debate over the moon's origin story is not over yet.

The Space Force is investing in new sensors and technologies to better characterize objects in orbit, but is not taking full advantage of commercially available data and services, says a new report by the Government Acco...

The ionosphere--the region of geospace spanning from 60 to 1000 kilometers above the Earth--impairs the propagation of radio signals from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) with its electrically charged particles...

SpaceX thought Starship's orbital launch mount could handle the vehicle's tremendous thrust during its debut launch last week. But that wasn't the case.

The Sateliot "GroundBreaker" is the first of a constellation of over 250 spacecraft designed to communicate with terrestrial 5G cell towers and fill gaps in data networks worldwide.

The NASA Entrepreneur Challenge is seeking new ideas for delivering lunar payloads and advancing climate science. The post NASA Wants New Ideas for Launching Lunar Payloads and Unlocking Climate Science! appeared first o...

What would a human conception in space mean for the sector? That's the situation posed by an international group of scientists, clinicians and other interested parties, who have authored a consultative green paper led by...

NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting 9 p.m. EDT, Sunday, April 30 (1 p.m. New Zealand Standard Time, Monday, May 1), to launch two storm tracking CubeSats into orbit.

An intense solar storm has the northern lights gracing the skies farther south than usual.

Scientists observed seismic waves traveling through Mars' core for the first time and confirmed model predictions of the core's composition.

NASA has finished its planning and is ready to go. Humans will soon be returning to the Moon--this time in a manned base. But, if this project is to succeed, astronauts must be able to grow their own food. Norwegian rese...

Our galaxy's largest nearby companion is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere. In recent years, new theoretical research and better observational capabiliti...

A Russian spacewalk to move an experiment airlock from one International Space Station module to another has been postponed, the country's federal space corporation Roscosmos announced.

The large impact craters dotting our planet are powerful reminders that asteroids and comets strike the Earth from time to time. As often said, it’s not a question of “if”; it’s a matter of “when” our planet ...

NASA is investigating some sensor trouble on one of the James Webb Space Telescope's instruments as the deep-space observatory continues work.

A spacecraft around Mars has sent back the most detailed photos yet of the red planet's little moon.

A University of Georgia research team has confirmed evidence of a previously unknown planet outside of our solar system, and they used machine learning tools to detect it.

Every giant was once a baby, though you may never have seen them at that stage of their development. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has begun to shed light on formative years in the history of the universe that have t...