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SpaceX will launch two satellites for the telecom company SES today (April 28) and land a rocket at sea, weather permitting, and you can watch the action live.

Chinese rocket startup Orienspace is moving towards a debut launch from a sea platform with a solid rocket later this year. The post Orienspace of China targets first launch in second half of the year appeared first on S...

Imagine you’re a lunar astronaut, putting in a hard day’s work building your lab or excavating moon rocks. You get back into the hab and ask, “What’s for dinner?” The answer could be “We’re starting with a ...

Last week, NASA shared a blog post saying they detected a sensor glitch associated with the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). For some reason, the sensor for MIRI's Medium Resolution Spectrosco...

A European radar instrument was designed to penetrate ice on Jupiter's icy moons. But now the JUICE mission is having issues deploying an antenna key to sending data back to Earth.

When it comes to supernovae, what is the minimum safe distance for habitable planets? Larger than we thought. The post You Don't Want to Be Within 160 Light-Years of a Supernova appeared first on Universe Today.

Astra Space and Exotrail have won orders for satellite electric propulsion systems as they work to scale up production of those products. The post Astra, Exotrail win satellite propulsion orders appeared first on SpaceNe...

NASA's Curiosity rover has spent more than 10 years exploring the Red Planet. Now the mission has new software allowing the rover to explore Mars more efficiently.

'Star Trek: Picard' actor and director Jonathan Frakes talks playing Riker again in an interview excerpt from the upcoming "Star Trek Explorer #7."

Data from China's Zhurong Mars rover reveals evidence of water activity on tiny dunes, suggesting parts of the Red Planet were shaped by salty water as recently as 400,000 years ago.

The Zhurong rover has found evidence of water on dune surfaces on modern Mars by providing key observational proof of liquid water at low Martian latitudes, according to a study led by Prof. Qin Xiaoguang from the Instit...

Researchers have applied sophisticated methods to reveal how smart dinosaurs might have been. These findings are still hotly debated among experts.

Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 8 April 2023, this image shows Los Angeles and part of the hinterland in Southern California.

The $600 saving means it's Amazon's lowest-ever price on the telescope.

Using the InSight lander scientists have measured seismic waves traveling through the core of Mars for the first time gathering clues as to why the Red Planet may not be fit for life.

A team of Japanese astronomers used simultaneous ground-based and space-based observations to capture a more complete picture of a superflare on a star. The observed flare started with a very massive, high-velocity promi...

Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi stepped out of the International Space Station (ISS) Friday for the first space walk by an Arab astronaut, a moment touted by the UAE as a "milestone".

A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds are visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In addition to several large elliptical galaxies, a ring-shaped galaxy is lurking on the right of the imag...

"Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" returns to theaters on April 28 for the 40th anniversary of the thrilling conclusion to the original trilogy.

Scientists thought our home galaxy was a four-armed spiral. Now they think it is a different shape.

A large international team of astronomers has discovered that the dwarf planet Quaoar is circled by a second ring. In their study, accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the group discovered th...

Once every 10,000 years or so, the center of a galaxy lights up as its supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star. This "tidal disruption event" happens in a literal flash, as the central black hole pulls in stell...