According to Virgin Orbit, yesterday’s historic orbital launch attempt from its Cornwall Spaceport— a first within the UK—made “numerous significant...
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In our solar system neighborhood, there’s one planetary family that we haven’t met properly: the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune. Thanks to Voyager mission...
Using the first dataset released by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of scientists have discovered something surprising– evidence...
The next private mission to the International Space Station will carry a private paying customer and three trained astronauts, with two members of Saudi...
Breathtaking visuals of the swirling arms of spiral galaxies are some of the awe-inspiring images our galaxy and others have to offer.
In only its first...
This article was originally featured on The Conversation.
For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the...
Following over a decade of research, including two years of testing origami-inspired components, a small prototype satellite designed to harvest solar energy...
This article was originally featured on The Conversation.
If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or...
On its 40th pass over Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft caught a unique and magnificent sight: the shadow of Jupiter’s most mammoth moon, Ganymede, lurking...
NASA is putting $278.5 million into supporting the development of new ways to connect with devices operating in near-Earth space. In a Wednesday statement...