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Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS on Thursday (July 31).

The James Webb Space Telescope's investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second star played a hand in sculpting the death of the primary star.

A United Airlines flight from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) to Munich was forced to return to the airport just moments after taking off when it suffered an engine failure. Flight 108, operated by a Boeing 787-8, departed IAD at 18:11 on Friday and was climbing through 5,000 feet when the left engine failed. The pilots declared a "mayday", and after a tense half hour in which it dumped fuel, were able to safely return to the airport without harm to passengers or crew.

From rocketships and exoplanets, to FTL and black holes, there's something for every space fan in Marvel's "The Fantastic Four: First Steps."

NASA's next moon astronauts underscored the importance of their upcoming Artemis 2 mission despite a turbulent time for the space agency full of budget cuts and workforce reductions.

Airbus has reported a strong financial performance for the first half of 2025 (H1), despite delivering fewer aircraft than in the same period last year. Revenue and profit were both up year-on-year, supported by stable production across core programs. The company’s defense and helicopter divisions also contributed to its overall performance, with steady output across both segments.

The US will welcome six new long-haul routes between August and October. As the summer is well underway, not many launches are coming. Most links will take off in October, especially towards the end of that month. That's because northern carriers will switch to winter schedules on Sunday, October 26.

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the eighth mission of its mysterious X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The flight will study experimental technology in orbit.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has flagged potential issues with ram air turbine (RAT) forward fittings on certain Boeing 787 aircraft, specifically -9 and -10 models. The FAA received notices from multiple suppliers warning that the forward fittings were possibly manufactured with substandard titanium.

NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International Space Station, four spacewalks and 300 days in space.

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.

Efrain Morales captured the image of Titan's shadow darkening Saturn on July 18, while the gas giant was over 800 million miles from Earth.

Satellites don't stop at borders and neither should science.

The satellite will scan the Earth twice every 12 days.

The Smithsonian Institution says NASA relinquished full ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery, but Congress wants to force the vehicle's relocation.

The U.S. and India just launched NISAR, a powerful radar satellite that will be able to monitor changes in Earth's surface that are as small as a centimeter.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have made the shock discovery that giant rogue exoplanets can grow their own planetary systems without needing a parent star.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary system. The discovery was possible with a little luck and some help from Einstein.

Bloomberg News is reporting that operators of the Airbus A380 are facing serious reliability issues with the jet. The Airbus A380 is, of course, the largest passenger airliner ever built. This immense size, combined with the superjumbo's technological advancements, makes it an incredibly complex aircraft. Now, over 20 years after the A380 took its first flight, airlines are beginning to feel the pain of that complexity.

An international team of astronomers has captured one of the most detailed images yet of a spectacular, ribbon-like jet emerging from the heart of the distant active galaxy, OJ 287. Enabled by the RadioAstron space telescope in combination with a global network of radio observatories, this breakthrough sheds new light on the extreme environments surrounding supermassive black holes and the powerful jets they launch into space.