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Arianespace has postponed the final launch of the Ariane 5, potentially for several weeks, after discovering a potential problem with pyrotechnical systems on the rocket. The post Technical problem postpones final Ariane...

Apple TV+ unwrapped a new full trailer for this summer's sophomore season of "Foundation," a television adaptation of Isaac Asimov's sprawling space epic.

European scientists are developing an inflatable radio telescope concept that could do groundbreaking science on the moon.

Three spaceflight anniversaries have a nexus of sorts, in a comic strip that ran in newspapers over 20 years ago. It all comes down to the imagination and knowledge (or lack thereof) of Johnny Hart.

Remote-sensing space companies worry that U.S. defense and intelligence agencies are not adopting commercial products and services at the pace and scale they hoped. The post Despite growing interest in commercial satelli...

A new viral video by a NASA astrobiologist explains the space agency's efforts to find out whether we are alone in the universe.

NASA Awards Institutional, Maintenance, Operations, and Repair Contract

NASA has selected COLSA Corporation of Huntsville, Alabama to provide a broad range of support to the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC). The contract includes support for financial management, human resources, procureme...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago. That simplistic statement is common, and it’s a good starting point for understanding our planet and our Solar System. But, obviously, Earth didn’t form all at once. The proc...

Two of six newly discovered runaway stars launched by supernovas have broken the record for the fastest objects of this type ever discovered.

The core of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa might have formed billions of years after the rest of it did, if indeed it has formed at all, a new study finds.

Fossil evidence confirms that dinosaurs were among Earth's largest ever to live. Each new discovery leads to greater learning about these incredible creatures.

The theory of general relativity (GR), proposed by Einstein over a century ago, remains one of the most well-known scientific postulates of all time. This theory, which explains how spacetime curvature is altered in the ...

Firefly Aerospace has agreed to buy Virgin Orbit's remaining assets -- inventory at two company production facilities -- as part of Virgin Orbit's bankruptcy proceedings. The post Firefly to buy remaining Virgin Orbit as...

Yesterday, ESA formally gave possession of the second European Service Module to NASA for the Artemis II mission that will see four astronauts circle our moon and return to Earth.

The galaxy NGC 7292 billows across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, accompanied by a handful of bright stars and the indistinct smudges of extremely distant galaxies in the background. It lies around ...

ESA's pair of sun-watching Proba-3 satellites have been placed in take-off configuration, one on top of the other, for testing in simulated launch and space conditions at IABG in Germany, ahead of their planned lift-off ...

New footage released by China's human spaceflight agency shows the Tiangong space station in its new configuration following a series of arrivals to and departures from the orbital outpost.

Wondering how long your cat will live? The lifespan of cats has a lot to do with their environment and genetics. Here's how you can help them live their best and longest life.

Media are invited to view NASA's Orion spacecraft for upcoming Artemis missions at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida later this summer.

A team of planetary scientists from Belgium, the U.S., France and Germany has found evidence from the InSight lander that suggests Mars has an all-liquid core and internal mass anomalies. In their paper published in the ...

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