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NASA has big plans for July 4 - the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence - which involves both aircraft and spacecraft.

Jupiters moon, Europa, has become high-value real estate for astrobiologists and the search for life beyond Earth. This is because the small moon, which is slightly smaller than Earths Moon, boasts a massive subsurface o...

The Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways (NESSP) project recently concluded its 2025-2026 ROADS (Rover Observation And Discoveries in Space) from Earth to Venus National Challenge, a NASA Science Activation program...

California-based launch company Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium.

After more than eight years of searching and with instruments designed to detect it, the European Space Agencys (ESA) Mars Trace Gas Orbiter has yet to find methane in the red planets atmosphere.

Europe's CERN physics research center bids 'Farewell' to the Large Hadron Collider, but it's actually more like 'See You Later, Accelerator!' The new, improved High-Luminosity LHC is due to make i...

On September 22, 2021, the IceCube Neutrino Detector in Antarctica caught a blast of neutrinos as it passed through the solar system. These neutrinos were remarkably high-energy and came from a galaxy 11 billion light-ye...

Two cinematic geniuses united to create one of Hollywoods most arresting android movies

NASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)launchedthe SBIC-NASA Initiative on Monday to increase investment in American manufacturers of industrial components and providers of technologies critical to space ex...

NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk on Tuesday (June 30), and you can watch the action live.

Stellar mass black holes may not be black holes at all. Instead, they could be a type of extremely compact star called a gravastar, which mimics a black hole. This is according to theoretical phsyicists who have discover...

Giant mirrors in space have been a staple of science fiction for decades. But so far, there's been very little work looking at the actual physics behind the concept-possibly because we're still so far from making...

A new Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study based on data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered insights into why the solar wind gradually slows as it moves toward the edge of the solar system and the...

Northrop Grumman will launch a rocket from an airplane to save NASA's SWIFT space telescope from falling out of orbit.

For NASA's next generation of deep-space exploration missions, spacecraft may need to refuel in Earth orbit before pushing farther into the solar system. Similar to how a gas pump needs a nozzle to fit your fuel tank...

This star's light left its surface around the same time that the U.S. was founded.

This star's light left its surface around the same time that the U.S. was founded.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted widespread, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its surface - despite the planet lacking the plate tectonics long thought neces...

Video: 00:03:15 What did space have in store for Europe this month? This June, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was named pilot of NASA's Artemis III mission, Ariane 6 set a new European launch record, Proba-3 returned t...

A study conducted at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris uses images from NASA's Dawn mission and a Bayesian inversion of the Hapke photometric model to analyze avalanches and ejecta deposits on the asteroid V...

MILAN - The European Space Agency will rely on external lunar topographic data during the design phase of its Argonaut lunar lander, and possibly for its first mission, while working [] The post ESA to seek lunar mapping...

Rocket Labs chief executive says the companys acquisition of Iridium was the logical next step in his ambitions to tap into the lucrative space services market. The post Beck: Iridium acquisition the logical next step fo...