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Wednesday, July 14, 2021: Spaceport America in New Mexico captured in a radar image two hours before the successful launch of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo on Sunday (July 11). The image was acquired by a satellite operated by San Francisco-based Capella Space, which is developing an innovative...

Boeing will launch its Starliner spacecraft on its second uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station on Tuesday (Aug. 3), at 1:20 p.m. EDT (1720 GMT). The Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2 mission) will spend about one week at the International Space Station before...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Anders Sandberg, James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford The U.S. military has released previously classified photos...

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft, in orbit around the red planet, has dropped its lander and rover — named Zhurong after a Chinese god of fire — completing the most perilous stage of its ten-month mission. According to Chinese state news agency Xinhua, an entry capsule enclosing...

With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror. The trip home for the robotic prospector, Osiris-Rex, will take two years. Osiris-Rex...

The Orion spacecraft is designed to carry astronauts to the moon and land in the ocean when it gets back. NASA’s Artemis program aims to take astronauts back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. The agency successfully fired up part...

New Horizons is going where only Voyagers and Pioneers have gone before. Voyagers 1 and 2. Pioneers 10 and 11. Those historic spacecraft are about to welcome a new member to an elite club. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will reach a distance of 50 astronomical...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has far exceeded its planned mission duration, revealing that the Moon holds surprises: ice deposits that could be used to support future lunar exploration, the coldest places in the solar system in permanently shadowed regions at the lunar poles,...

Mass is constantly being redistributed around our planet, as Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and other bodies of water on and under the surface melt, shift and stir. This mass redistribution alters Earth’s center of gravity, which in turn speeds up and slows down the planet’s spin—and...

A major component of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has been delivered to the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the phase known as assembly, test, and launch operations is now underway. Over the next year, the spacecraft will finish assembly and undergo rigorous checkout...