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Chinese launch company Galactic Energy announced in late July that it used a small test vehicle propelled by a jet engine to test software for landing rockets.

China has added a new satellite to its fleet of meteorological spacecraft.

In-space transportation company Momentus is now offering a version of its Vigoride tug as a satellite bus for commercial and government customers. The post Momentus offers smallsat bus based on Vigoride appeared first on...

It’s hard to believe, but Mars Curiosity Rover has been on Mars doing its thing for 11 years. And, so what’s it doing to celebrate? Heading up a hill, making one of its toughest climbs ever. The “little rover that ...

The writer's strike is now beginning to impact conventions and organized events, which is a damn shame

Scientists have made the most precise measurements ever of Mars's rotation, for the first time detecting how the planet wobbles due to the "sloshing" of its molten metal core. The findings, detailed in a recent Nature pa...

Amazon plans to deploy its first pair of Project Kuiper prototypes this fall on an Atlas 5 from United Launch Alliance, the internet giant said Aug. 7 after switching rockets a second time to avoid mounting delays. The p...

Already running years behind, Boeing's first astronaut flight is now off until at least next March.

Set to launch this fall, NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) project will test how lasers could speed up data transmission far beyond the capacity of current radio frequency systems used in space. Known as a ...

Boeing has delayed the first-ever astronaut launch of its Starliner capsule to March 2024 at the earliest as it continues to work several issues.

Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers on the genesis of 'Subspace Rhapsody,' a musical episode of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.'

Paramount+ releases a new featurette for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'" incredible crossover

Being a fan of "Strange New Worlds" at the moment feels a little like being at the end of long piece of emotional elastic

NanoAvionics is preparing to ship a nanosatellite slated to launch this fall to study black holes and neutron stars from low Earth orbit, the Lithuanian manufacturer announced Aug. 7. The post NanoAvionics completes LEO ...

A communications satellite designed by Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency passed a critical design review, the company announced Aug. 7. The post Lockheed Martin’s data-transport satellite clears design r...

The world's largest single-dish radio telescope can be a pain to maintain, so Chinese astronomers are using smart robots to make the job easier.

Mission scientists and engineers took on the tricky task of targeting a remote stretch of the Atlantic Ocean for the reentry of Europe's Aeolus satellite.

Scientists analyzed spice grinding stones from an ancient trading port and found evidence that the spices behind the dish had blossomed in popularity.

NASA will provide live coverage beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 9, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to begin about 10:45 a....

Artemis 2's moon astronauts will need a big team of people to bring them home after arriving on Earth. The ambitious goal: To bring the astronauts from spacecraft to med bay in 2 hours.

India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander has returned images from the moon after entering orbit around our nearest neighbor.

A quartet of cubesats launched in May to monitor the development of tropical storm systems is working just in time to support monitoring of the Atlantic hurricane season. The post TROPICS cubesat constellation ready for ...