The Italian government is investing 70 million euros into upgrades to Grottaglie Airport to allow it to serve as a spaceport for Virgin Galactic. Credit: Aeroporti di Puglia WASHINGTON — Virgin ...

A view of the center of our galaxy shows the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, where cold dust (magenta) and warmer gas and dust (cyan) surround a cluster of massive stars. The stars generate high-speed ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (the “Company” or “Virgin Galactic”) and Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile (“ENAC”), the civil aviation authority of Italy, ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have investigated three open clusters in the galactic disk, namely Berkeley 17, 18 ...

A team of astronomers has created the first-ever map of magnetic field structures within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Previous studies on galactic magnetic fields only gave a very general ...

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At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky Way. Stelios ...

Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...

Study to Evaluate Technical and Regulatory Feasibility of Operating from Italy’s Grottaglie Spaceport The study will evaluate the necessary technical requirements for suborbital spaceflight operations ...