Space launch company Virgin Orbit has been grounded for good after a US bankruptcy court broke it up and sold off its assets to bidders. The demise of the ambitious venture comes after a failed attempt to conduct its first mission in January.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor on an object in the asteroid belt, a region of the solar system where it wasn’t known to survive. The new observations also reveal something unexpectedly missing.

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ESA's Juice Jupiter mission is back on track after Mission Control in Darmstadt, Germany managed to shake loose and deploy the stuck ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna that was stuck due to a tiny pin.

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A new study suggests that if any alien civilizations are turning their radio telescopes toward Earth, they may be able to not only detect our mobile phone signals, but could deduce a lot about our planet and even produce crude maps of it.

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Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole ripping a passing star to shreds. Not only was this closer to Earth than ever seen before, but its location and light emissions were unusual, hinting at a large unseen population of these events.

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Researchers from University College London and the University of Potsdam, Germany have studied two most massive touching stars in a neighboring galaxy that will eventually turn into black holes and collide, sending ripples through space and time.

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In an autonomous orbital ballet, Lockheed Martin's In-space Upgrade Satellite System completed a demonstration of how highly automated CubeSats can upgrade and service increasingly common constellations of small satellites.

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While astronauts' space capsules look great in sci-fi films, the reality can be quite different. Now, Airbus' new space habitation called the Loop could merge the design of Hollywood with more practical space-based needs.

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ESA's historic mission to explore the moons of Jupiter and orbit the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, has begun. The Juice robotic probe lifted off from Europe's Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana atop an Ariane 5 rocket.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has provided the most detailed look yet at the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). According to one astronomer, the data provided by the imaging is enough for him to study for the rest of his career.

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