United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket inside the Vertical Integration Facility earlier this month. Credit: United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance teams at Cape Canaveral are preparing to roll an Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad Wednesday, moving the launcher into position for liftoff Thursday evening with a pair of geostationary satellites for the U.S. Space Force.
SpaceX will launch a commercial communications satellite and land a rocket at sea on Wednesday (June 29), and you can watch the action live.
A massive galaxy cluster shines in a new telescope image, distorting the view of more distant galaxies lying in the background.
The Europa Clipper mission, due to launch in 2024, was originally supposed to crash into Jupiter, but there's been a change of plans.
Virgin Orbit's carrier plane, known as Cosmic Girl, is scheduled to lift off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California on Thursday (June 30) during a window that opens at 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT).
The sun is acting out, and solar weather forecasters are baffled. But one scientist might know what's going on.
Amazon.com's annual Amazon Prime Day megasale begins on Monday, July 12 with deals in telescopes, binoculars, Star Wars and other space gear.
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The latest delay will allow teams more time to assess and mitigate the consequences of elevated propellant vapor readings inside Dragon's propulsion system.
Astronomers using the ALMA Observatory have discovered an unusual, massive star near the center of our galaxy, a star that has two spiral arms. The arms are part of an accretion disk, a broad disk of dust and gas surrounding the protostar. While this is not the first star to be seen with such rare arm-like features, researchers say they believe they can track the formation of the spiral arms to a close encounter the star had with another object.
We are carbon-based life forms. That means the basis for the chemical compounds that forms our life is the element carbon. It’s crucial because it bonds with other elements such as hydrogen and oxygen to create the complex molecules that are part of life. So, when we look for evidence of life elsewhere in the solar system, we look for carbon. That includes Mars.
'The Orville' season 3 continues to wow us with enthralling stories, just the right amount of humor and mind-blowing space battles.
The Space Force's X-37B has now been aloft for 773 days, just a week shy of the program record.
A microwave oven–sized cubesat launched to space today from New Zealand by commercial company Rocket Lab and their Electron rocket. The small satellite will conduct tests to make sure the unique lunar orbit for NASA’s future Lunar Gateway is actually stable.
A "peculiar" cloud over the Caspian Sea offers an interesting case study of how satellites can detect such phenomena in Earth's atmosphere.
Del Rey Books releases Adam Christopher’s new "Star Wars" novel, "Shadow of the Sith."
Houston-based Axiom Space has found the perfect place to develop its commercial orbital outpost: a sprawling facility that comes pre-equipped with a mockup of the International Space Station.
Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher fires off the pad in New Zealand with NASA’s CAPSTONE mission. Credit: Rocket Lab
NASA’s $30 million CAPSTONE mission lifted off Tuesday on a Rocket Lab launcher from New Zealand, departing Earth on a circuitous but fuel-efficient four-month journey toward a halo orbit around the moon to test technologies and operations for the Artemis moon program.
NASA's 55-pound (25 kilograms) CAPSTONE cubesat launched toward the moon today (June 28), but it won't get there until Nov. 13.
Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show signs of key ingredients of life as we know it on Earth.
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