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Sierra Space has unveiled a new "global payload delivery" system known as Ghost that is designed to drop vital payloads from orbit to anywhere on Earth's surface within 90 minutes.

Exploration of the Moon or other dusty environments comes with challenges. The lunar surface is covered in material known as regolith and its a jaggy, glassy material. It can cause wear and tear on equipment and can pose...

After a journey lasting about two billion years, photons from an extremely energetic gamma-ray burst (GRB) struck the sensors on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope on October 9th, ...

Vulcan, United Launch Alliance's new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of being exposed to gamma rays or the bite of a radioactive spider, but it does have an origin story worthy of a comic book.

Intelsat is in talks with the U.S. government to help fund 17 medium Earth orbit satellites to expand the operator's multi-orbit broadband network. The post US government could help fund Intelsat’s MEO plans appeared f...

On April 8, 2024, the Moon's shadow swept across North America, treating millions to a breathtaking view of a total solar eclipse. As the Moon passed in front of the Sun, it revealed the Sun's wispy white outer atmospher...

CNN's space documentary, "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight" reaches its finale on April 14. You can watch an exclusive clip now.

Enterprise, the first space shuttle orbiter that NASA built, arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on April 10, 1979. Although not space worthy, as a pathfinder Enterprise carried out tasks critical to ...

On Earth Day, Learn How NASA Investigates the Blue in Our Blue Planet This Earth Day, join us in person and online to learn how NASA studies the ocean from space. Explore the complex connections between sea, air, land, a...

Watching the new trailer for the upcoming movie "Fly Me to the Moon" might leave you thinking that it is an entire work of fiction. And for the most part, you would be correct.

Our unique language systems distinguish us from other species, but researchers explore how early hand gestures paved the way for civilization.

Bats, dolphins, National Parks and a 12-hour Zooniverse Palooza are coming up for Citizen Science Month.

Spanish start-up HALO Space has unveiled its capsule design for stratospheric space tourism.

The science fiction television series 3 Body Problem, the latest from the creators of HBO's Game of Thrones, has become the most watched show on Netflix since its debut last month. Based on the bestselling book trilogy R...

In the upcoming budget cycles the Space Force needs to align its words with its actions and follow through on making tough choices The post Space Force challenged by budget stagnation appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Monday, April 15, to discuss the agency's response to a Mars Sample Return Independent Review Board report from September 2023, including next steps for the program. T...

Most satellites share the same fate at the end of their lives. Their orbits decay, and eventually, they plunge through the atmosphere toward Earth. Most satellites are destroyed during their rapid descent, but not always...

The closest extreme magnetic dead star or magnetar to Earth suddenly burst back to life to give astronomers a sight of unexpected and unexplained phenomena that are unlike anything seen before.

The Office of Space Commerce will set up operations centers in Colorado and Maryland for its civil space traffic coordination system. The post Office of Space Commerce selects locations for TraCSS operations centers appe...

In the constellation Virgo, 700 light years away from Earth, the planet WASP-39b orbits the star WASP-39. The gas giant, which takes little more than four days to complete one orbit, is one of the best-studied exoplanets...

CNN is set to conclude airing a four-part series on space shuttle Columbia's ill-fated last return to Earth. "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight" airs on Sunday (April 14).

During the Apollo missions of the 1970s, several seismometers were flown to the moon, where they collected data on lunar seismic trembling for eight years. The data showed some lunar quakes were as powerful as a magnitud...