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A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet's global environ...

A new pharmaceutical production method could allow astronauts on long space missions to "grow" fresh medicines on demand using plants. The work could also bring low-cost pharmaceutical production to resource-limi...

"I dont have a relatable thing. This is not like life that weve experienced."

The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable shower has a history of surprise outbursts.

MDA Space is buying smallsat manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) for $620 million, giving the Canadian company greater access to the lucrative U.S. government market. The post MDA Space to buy Blue Canyon Technol...

NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. Can a commercial company build a spacecraft in nine months to save it?

Video: 00:23:49 Meet the voices astronauts hear in space. At ESAs European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, the EUROCOM team is the link between crew and ground, guiding astronauts like ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot t...

In April, Galileo marked a step forward with the deployment of a new signal component, known as E5a Quasi Pilot, on 12 satellites of Europes satellite navigation constellation. This upgrade makes Galileo signals easier t...

Need some good news on a Friday after a long week? The Earth may not be engulfed by the expanding fireball of the dying sun, which has long been assumed to be our home planet's ultimate fate, according to scientists....

Maybe the next Sally Ride won't be asked the "100 tampons" question.

ElevationSpace Inc. (CEO: Ryohei Kobayashi), a company developing Space-to-Earth transportation as well as a Space Environment Utilization and Recovery Platform, has raised a total of US $40 million in its [] The post El...

Current plans for flagship telescopes in the 2040s are focused on answering a simple question - are we alone? Our best telescopes to date, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have only given us tantalizing glim...

A stunningly concentrated and hefty galaxy cluster, from a time in the universe's history when such massive structures aren't expected to have fully formed yet, is challenging cosmic evolution theories. Across a ...

Easley was a human computer for the agency who helped with building the Centaur upper-stage rocket.

Short nights and bright stars make the midsummer night sky surprisingly beginner-friendly.

To some, space is the final frontier. But the reality is that once you leave Earths atmosphere, youre not entering a single, uniform void. There are several frontiers up there [] The post The MEO durability crisis: why L...

NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earths atmosphere. The post NASA selects mission to study space weather interaction with Earths atmosphere appear...

A biocontainment facility designed to protect Earth from potentially hazardous biotic contaminants from space should be part of a planned NASA base on the moon, a policy paper maintains.

A spacecraft developed by Tsinghua University is set to join international missions to study the asteroid Apophis during its close approach to Earth in 2029. The post Chinese university-led mission to study asteroid Apop...

A startup has acquired an aircraft to offer commercial parabolic flight services even as NASA seeks to acquire its own aircraft for reduced-gravity research. The post Mu-g Technologies enters the parabolic flight busines...

The Bullet Cluster has so far been considered evidence of the existence of dark matter. An international team of researchers has now analyzed new data and current images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Accord...

Evidence of chemical alteration by liquid water has been found on the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed further from the sun before being shoved inwards.