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.

There were no injuries reported, and the cause is under investigation.

A citizen scientist used old telescope data to find a trove of binary star systems that include what are sometimes dubbed “failed stars.”

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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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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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.

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

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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An early-stage Martian sailplane soared aloft, tethered to a balloon, as engineers ponder the possibilities to expand Red Planet flight.