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By Steve Spaleta | December 5, 2016 09:08am ET The team is back up to their epic sci-fi hijinks in the latest trailer for the new movie. It premieres May 5, 2017. [Watch the first trailer] credit : Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios Watch more  ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A True Space Plane | Video […]

“The Glass Universe” follows the women of the Harvard College Observatory and their groundbreaking measurements of the stars. In the mid-19th century, women worked at the Harvard College Observatory as “human computers,” studying photographic plates of stars and unveiling some of the most fundamental discoveries of our universe.  Astronomers at the observatory captured the images […]

A striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures an extremely detailed view of the galaxy NGC 4696 and the tangled, thread-like filaments stretching from its bright galactic core.   Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth, NGC 4696 is a member of the Centaurus galaxy cluster — a group of hundreds of galaxies […]

: This false-color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around methane and ethane lakes at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. On Sept. 27, 2017, the Cassini spacecraft will dive headlong into Saturn , after spending 13 years exploring the ringed planet and many […]

Arianespace launched Göktürk-1 for Turkey Dec. 5 atop a Vega rocket. WASHINGTON — Arianespace lofted Turkey’s Göktürk-1 Earth-observation satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit Dec. 5 aboard a Vega rocket , marking the eighth success for the European light-lift vehicle. Göktürk-1 prime contractor Telespazio reported signal acquisition 68 minutes after its 8:51 a.m. EST (1351 GMT) liftoff […]

By Steve Spaleta | December 4, 2016 10:33am ET The Virgin Galactic suborbital vehicle entered its second phase of testing on Dec. 3, 2016. It was released from its WhiteKnightTwo mothership and glided back down to the Mojave Air and Space Port in California after 10 minutes of flight. [Full Story] credit : Space.com / […]

Bulk metallic glass, formed by melting and then rapidly cooling metal, doesn’t get brittle in extreme cold. Two new research papers examine the effectiveness and cost of making gears for spacecraft from bulk metallic glass. A material known as metallic glass, created by liquefying and then rapidly cooling metal, might be an ideal material for […]

The final three satellites in the Air Force’s 10-satellite WGS constellation include a digital channelizer that will boost capacity by enabling the satellite to use bandwidth more efficiently. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Air Force’s first upgraded Wideband Global Satcom satellite is ready for a planned Dec. 7 launch , Air Force officials told reporters during a […]

WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo performed its first free flight Dec. 3, a glide test that begins the next phase in testing of the commercial suborbital spaceplane. SpaceShipTwo, named VSS Unity, and its carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at about 9:50 a.m. EST (1450 GMT). […]

<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”35″> VSS Unity Is Going Solo Credit: Virgin Galactic The space tourism company Virgin Galactic performed its first glide flight test of the VSS Unity on Dec. 3, 2016. Here are the photos from the spaceship’s run-up to its first solo flight. THIS PHOTO: Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo spacecraft, the VSS Unity, and […]

An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifts off in June. TeamIndus has purchased a PSLV launch in late 2017 for its Google Lunar X Prize Lander. WASHINGTON — TeamIndus, an Indian team competing in the Google Lunar X Prize, announced Dec. 1 it has a launch contract for its lunar lander mission with the […]