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Sierra Space's Dream Chaser will delay about half a year to December, while its new United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket's upper stage had an anomaly during testing.

Two mysterious cosmic phenomena appeared in the same patch of sky nearly at once, and it may not be a coincidence.

Now that spring is officially here, we have a great view of some of the most interesting double stars in our sky.

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, and we’ve learned much about these superlative outbursts since their discovery in 1967.

NASA has appointed Steve Shih as the agency's first diversity ambassador and Elaine Ho as the next associate administrator for the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.

Week in images: 27-31 March 2023

The US Air Force will not use a Lockheed Martin-made hypersonic weapon for its Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon program. Other hypersonic research continues.

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The Making of Juice series takes the viewer behind the scenes of the European space industry, space technology and planetary science communities around ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission.

It's taken seven years, but now it's official: one of NASA's Apollo-era rocket movers is the heaviest self-powered vehicle. Guinness World Records confirmed Crawler-Transporter 2 tipped the scale.

The flag of Belgium flew proudly over ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands as ESTEC was honoured with a visit by Thomas Dermine, Belgium’s State Secretary for Science Policy, Recovery Program and Strategic Investments, accompanied by new Belgian astronaut Raphaël Liégeois.

There's no firm release date for when ALE plans to generate its first artificial meteor shower, which it previously pledged to begin in 2023.

The solar system's hottest planet (Venus) and its coldest one (Uranus) will be in conjunction tonight (March 31), offering a rare opportunity for skywatchers.

Mercury emerges this week far below Venus at dusk, while Venus makes its way toward the Pleiades. Orion turns his belt horizontal for the warming weather.

Europe has just endured its second warmest winter on record. Much of southern and western Europe has been affected by substantial anomalies of soil moisture owing to this exceptionally dry and warm winter. Data from ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission have been used to monitor the low levels of soil moisture across Europe.

Image: Part of southern Italy is featured in this wintery image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

ESA Impact 2023 – Quarter 1

Israel’s Ofek 13 radar spy satellite lifted off aboard an Israeli-built Shavit 2 launch vehicle. Credit: Israel Ministry of Defense

Israel’s military launched a radar spy satellite March 28 from an air base south of Tel Aviv, adding an all-weather observation sentinel to the country’s fleet of intelligence-gathering spacecraft.

We've got an exclusive clip from the 9th episode of Apple TV+'s addictive retro-futuristic sci-fi series "Hello Tomorrow!"

Virgin Orbit is ceasing operations "for the foreseeable future" and laying off about 90% of its workforce, according to CNBC.

NASA has set up a new office to manage the agency's crewed activities at and around the moon and Mars.