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Here we explore how long it takes to get to the moon and the factors that affect the journey to our rocky companion.

The European Space Agency is guiding its Aeolus wind-studying satellite to a destructive atmospheric reentry this week. Here's when and where it's expected to happen.

Falcon Heavy stands ready to launch the heaviest commercial communications satellite ever, the Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 satellite. Image: SpaceX.

SpaceX rolled a Falcon Heavy to the launch pad early Wednesday morning ahead of its planned liftoff tonight at 11:04 p.m. EDT (0304 UTC) with the Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 satellite, the heaviest commercial communications satellite ever launched.

NASA has awarded $150 million to advance the development of potentially revolutionary exploration technologies, including systems that could power outposts on the moon.

During a congressional hearing on Wednesday (July 26), military witnesses and members of Congress demanded more transparency from the U.S. government when it comes to UFOs.

A chemical mapping technique has revealed details of the Milky Way's spiral arms that have, until now, been obscured. This allows astronomers to see new regions of our galaxy that hold an abundance of young stars.

The final episode of Marvel's Secret Invasion fails to embellish the overall package and surprisingly leaves many doors open.

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On Tuesday 25 July, the four crew members of Crew-7, Jasmin Moghbeli (NASA), Andreas Mogensen (ESA), Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA) and Konstantin Borisov (Roscosmos) hosted a news conference where they talk about their upcoming mission to the International Space Station.

The European Space Agency released a video titled "Life of Aeolus," a musical piece written for a small wind ensemble based on one year of wind data collected by the Aeolus satellite.

NASA's Mission Control in Houston had a power outage Tuesday (July 25) and briefly lost contact with the International Space Station. No astronauts were in any danger, officials said.

China is developing spacecraft and a spacesuit to allow its astronauts to land and explore the moon.

Image: Webb snaps detailed infrared image of actively forming stars

With Venus approaching inferior conjunction in August here's a foolproof way to follow its thinning crescent as the planet transitions from Evening Star to Morning Star.

Capture One Pro 23 is aimed primarily at professional studio photographers, but can it lend itself to everyone else to get the most out of the high price tag?

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After a remarkable life in orbit, Aeolus is out of fuel and out of time - it’s returning to Earth this week. Planned before any regulations were put in place on ‘end-of-life’ disposal, the Earth explorer was designed to naturally return through our atmosphere.

The serendipitous discovery of an ancient star crashing through a gathering of young, hot stars could help explain the mysterious abundance of isotopes that existed in the early solar system.

NASA finished its first launch simulation for the crewed Artemis 2 moon mission, which is slated to lift off in late 2024. The exercise is just one of many for the moon mission team.

Scientists may have just found what makes the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, so inexplicably hot.

SpaceX's brawny Falcon Heavy rocket will launch for the seventh time ever tonight (July 26), sending a huge communications satellite skyward. Watch it live here.

On 10 July 2023, a volcano some 30 km from Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, erupted following heightened seismic activity in the area. Satellites orbiting above us have captured the molten lava and smoke plume puffing from the Litli-Hrútur volcano.