The records keep falling for the U.S. Space Force’s robotic X-37B space plane, which has now spent 781 days in orbit on its latest mission.

CAPSTONE successfully performed its first engine burn today (July 7), an 11-minute maneuver that changed its velocity by about 45 mph (72 kph) as planned.

NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a live broadcast

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The ESA astronaut selection has been progressing as planned, with phase two of the selection process ending in March this year, and phase three ending in June.

Video: 00:01:50 FedCon is one of Europe’s largest science fiction conventions, its 2022 edition held earlier this month in Bonn in Germany. Actors from the many incarnations of Star Trek,

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Video: 00:43:03 Watch the replay of the Q&A session with the media to learn more about the preparations for the upcoming launch of Vega-C. The inaugural flight of this new

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We may not have to wait too much longer for the first-ever orbital test flight of SpaceX’s Starship deep-space transportation system.

The massive eruption from the underwater Tonga volcano earlier this year generated a blast so powerful, it sent the fastest pressure waves ever observed in our atmosphere rippling around the

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Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at all never drop to absolute zero thanks to a

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Earth’s magnetic field originates in the outer core and extends out into the magnetosphere — a region of space that helps protect Earth from space weather.