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HELSINKI -- A Chinese commercial Kinetica-1 solid rocket failed late Thursday, with the launch attempt setting a new domestic record for launches in a calendar year. The Kinetica-1 (Lijian-1) solid […] The post China s...

Iceye has added $65 million to a funding round it announced in April, bringing the total the SAR imaging company has raised to more than $500 million. The post Iceye raises additional $65 million appeared first on SpaceN...

December 2024 will see a rare "black moon," a term for the second new moon in a calendar month.

Operations teams have confirmed NASA's mission to "touch" the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above t...

Learn how the existence of dark energy is being challenged due to new evidence that the expanding universe is actually "lumpy".

Astrophysicists now await a data transmission that will improve understanding of the sun's solar wind and the heat of its corona.

The recent congressional approval of the first-ever acknowledgment of space launch noise impacts on nearby communities is a landmark moment for both the aerospace sector and the communities that host these transformative...

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. A prominent bar of stars stretches across the center of this galaxy, a...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday.

The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th anniversary and skywatchers can celebrate the mighty telescope with a year-long observation challenge.

Our Lego Marvel Avengers Helicarrier review: Boring to build and flimsy in places, even if it does resemble the actual thing.

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.

Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during the solar system's formation.

Indian astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of a gamma-ray emitting compact symmetric object known as DA 362. Results of the study, presented in a research paper published December 17 on the pre-print serve...

Spacecoin said it is successfully communicating with a recently launched debut connectivity satellite, designed to test technology for a decentralized space-based network shared by multiple investors. The post Spacecoin ...

Humans are returning to the moon--this time, to stay. Because our presence will be more permanent, NASA has selected a location that maximizes line-of-sight communication with Earth, solar visibility, and access to water...

Dr. Feng Haicheng from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with his collaborators, has made progress in studying the geometrical and kinematical evolution of the broad-line region (BLR) in ...

We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle.

HELSINKI -- Chinese launch startup Landspace has secured major funding from a state-backed investment initiative to boost its development of reusable launchers. Landspace received 900 million yuan ($123 million) from [�...