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The upper stage of NASA's Artemis 3 moon rocket arrived at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida ahead of a planned 2025 launch.

Because oxygen takes up valuable weight aboard spacecraft, space mission planners are interested in the idea of creating oxygen right there on Mars with raw Martian materials.

The billionaire backing a series of private astronaut missions with SpaceX says the first of those flights will likely be delayed to some time in 2024. The post Polaris Dawn mission likely to slip to 2024 appeared first ...

The North Korean government has announced it will attempt to launch a satellite between Aug. 24 and Aug. 31. Its previous attempt in May 2023 failed and landed in the Yellow Sea.

A new study considers how future astrobiology studies could search for life "as we don't know it" on exoplanets. The post The Most Compelling Places to Search for Life Will Look Like “Anomalies” appeared first on Uni...

India's Chandrayaan-3 rover mission will try to land near the moon's south pole on Wednesday morning (Aug. 23), and you can watch the action live.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is seeking information from the private sector on barriers encountered by commercial remote sensing data providers when doing business with the intelligence community a...

China added to its fleet of Earth-observation satellites with a new launch on Sunday (Aug. 20), sending a Gaofen 12 spacecraft to orbit.

We recently got a new image of the famous Ring Nebula from JWST using its NIRCam instrument. This week we got an update taken with MIRI. The Ring Nebula is a perfect example of a planetary nebula, where a dying star thro...

The northern lights have been seen high in the Arctic Circle, indicating the start of the aurora season, which will become more apparent as we approach solar maximum.

Sidus acquired Pasadena, California-based Exo-Space to expand its "talent, technology and total addressable market," said Carol Craig, Sidus founder and CEO. The post Sidus Space acquires Exo-Space appeared first on Spac...

A distant galaxy sparkles from the soft glow of its many tiny stars in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers have made a thorough forensic study of a star that was torn apart when it ventured too close to a giant black hole and then had its insides tossed out into space.

Aotearoa New Zealand is the latest country to enter the expanding and competitive international space market.

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a warning to private space companies about the threat of foreign cyberattacks and disruptions to U.S. satellites.

The U.S. Air Force awarded Umbra a $1.25 million contract to demonstrate the capabilities of space-based radar sensors to track moving targets on the ground. The post Umbra selected to demonstrate space-based radar to tr...

Marvel's new "Star Wars: Visions" one-shot comic book features art and an original Sith-focused story by Eisner Award-winning Japanese artist Peach Momoko.

A team of space scientists at the Planetary Science Institute, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen University and the University of Aberdeen, has used data from China's Chang'E-4 rover ...

In this explainer, we explore the differences between a total solar eclipse and an annular 'ring of fire' solar eclipse.

A pair of astrophysicists at the Rochester Institute of Technology has found via simulations that some black holes might be traveling through space at nearly one-tenth the speed of light. In their study, reported in Phys...

Astronomers from Taiwan have performed X-ray observations of the galaxy NGC 1559 using NASA's Chandra spacecraft. They detected eight new ultraluminous X-ray sources in this galaxy. The finding is reported in a paper pub...

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