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As Artemis II gets ready to launch in November 2024, NASA recently announced it is pursuing contract proposals from private companies for the development of a next-generation Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) to be used for cr...

As NASA prepares to return astronauts to the Moon with Artemis III, China is ramping up its efforts for a crewed lunar landing, targeting earlier than 2030. Lin Xiqiang, the deputy director of China’s Manned Space Agen...

Observing a powerful feeding black hole in X-ray light has allowed astronomers to peer into the inner workings of what is the brightest quasar seen in the last 9 billion years of cosmic history.

China sent three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, putting a civilian into orbit for the first time as it pursues plans to send a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030.

China successfully launched the latest mission to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, with a crew that includes its first civilian astronaut.

A deep-space radar developed by Northrop Grumman for the U.S. Space Force passed a critical design review, the company announced May 30. The post Northrop Grumman's deep-space radar passes critical design review appeared...

A new video shows the three astronauts of China's Shenzhou 16 mission entering the Tiangong space station on Tuesday (May 30).

SpaceX plans to launch 52 of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early Wednesday morning (May 31), and you can watch the action live.

Three new cases from England show the long interplay between our species and Yersinia pestis.

With Virgin Orbit going through bankruptcy, other launch providers are purchasing various parts of the business. This week we learned that Stratolaunch's bid to buy Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft h...

NASA and SpaceX are targeting 12:35 p.m. EDT Saturday, June 3, to launch the company's 28th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Ce...

Recently released footage gives new, highly detailed looks at the first-ever launch of a fully stacked Starship vehicle, which SpaceX conducted last month.

A spacecraft can estimate the attitude state by comparing external measurements from attitude sensors with reference information. CubeSats tend to use 4-quadrant analog solar sensors which have the advantages of extremel...

The Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS), led by Akshay Suresh, Cornell doctoral candidate in astronomy, is pioneering a search for periodic signals emanating from the core of our gala...

A new study considers how missions landing and taking off from the lunar surface could cause damage to orbiting spacecraft. The post How Much Damage Will Lunar Landings Do to Lunar Orbiters? appeared first on Universe To...

The habitable zone is the region around a star where planets can maintain liquid water on their surface. It’s axiomatic that planets with liquid water are the best places to look for life, and astronomers focus their s...

A massive new sunspot is visible without using a telescope or binoculars, but you'll still need to protect your eyes when observing it.

A private company has plans to test a revolutionary new heat shield that folds and unfolds like origami, and it could conduct a test flight aboard a SpaceX rocket later this year.

Have you ever wondered if fire has a shadow? Learn the physics behind the illuminating relationship between flames and light.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a huge water vapor plume emanating from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Astronomers say the plume reaches nearly 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) into space, which is about the equival...

The total number of people in Earth orbit is now at a record high, though only for a short time. With Monday's (May 29) launch of China's Shenzhou 16 mission, the population in orbit grew to 17.

Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the best places we could search for life in the Solar System. A new paper proposes a single mission powered by an electric propulsion system that could visit Enceladus and other inner mo...