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A pair of recent studies conduct in-depth analyses of Jupiter-sized exoplanets, also known as Exo-Jupiters, and were published in Nature Communications and The Astronomical Journal, respectively. The study published in N...

House appropriators would fully fund NASA's Mars Sample Return program despite its ongoing problems but halt the agency's plans to cooperate with a European Mars mission. The post House bill would fully fund Mars Sample ...

Dwindling cash reserves caused launch vehicle and spacecraft propulsion company Astra Space to default on a loan at the end of October, adding to doubts about the company's future. The post Astra, low on cash, defaults o...

A new paper shows how gravitational lenses could be used to beam power from one star system to another. The post Civilizations Could Use Gravitational Lenses to Transmit Power From Star to Star appeared first on Universe...

The space shuttle Endeavour's twin giant rockets will be hoisted by crane next week and affixed into place atop the craft's aft skirts in a first step of assembling a full-stack configuration of the shuttle at the future...

Last September, NASA purposefully smashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos, a 160m-wide space rock orbiting a larger asteroid named Didymos. The goal of the mission, called DART (the Double Asteroid Redirection Test), was to ...

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered most of the confirmed exoplanets that we know of. But its successor, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), is catching up. New research announces the validation of eight ...

Mining an asteroid probably won't look exactly like mining does on Earth, but some principles will stay the same.

Scientists proposed a novel idea on Wednesday that could solve two of the world's mysteries at once--one that passes over our heads every night, and one that sits far below our feet.

NASA just rolled out its new 'Spot the Station' free mobile app for iOS and Android.

To understand how galaxies evolve, astronomers want to use JWST to peer into the Milky Way's core.

NASA and aerospace company, Aerojet Rocketdyne, have successfully completed qualification testing of the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS), which is a 12-kilowatt, solar electric propulsion (SEP) engine being bu...

Sierra Space marked a historic achievement with the completion of its first Dream Chaser space plane, which could launch as soon as April 2024.