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The brief test of the motor, at a company facility in Utah, demonstrated its ability to pull the Orion away from an SLS in an emergency. SpaceNews.com

A team of Chinese scientists has realized the satellite-based distribution of entangled photon pairs over 1200 km....

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said she approved the order Friday setting up a new deputy chief of staff for space operations position on the Air Staff of the Air Force, with a goal of making the office operatio...

A pair of French entrepreneurs have raised 1.7 million euros ($1.9 million) for a new electric propulsion system to address the small satellite market. SpaceNews.com

The CEO of Boeing Defense, Space, and Security said that the goal of reshuffling the company's upper management is to streamline operations. SpaceNews.com

South Korean satellite operator KT Sat inked a pre-launch customer in Mongolia that will lease approximately an eighth of the total capacity on the operator's next satellite. SpaceNews.com

On June 17, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) will celebrate 1,000 Earth days in orbit around the Red Planet. Since its launch in November 2013 and its orbit insertion in September 2014, MAVEN...

On June 17, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) will celebrate 1,000 Earth days in orbit around the Red Planet. Since its launch in November 2013 and its orbit insertion in September 2014, MAVEN...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity passed near a young crater this spring during the 45th anniversary of Apollo 16's trip to Earth's moon, prompting a connection...

Forty-five years after astronauts on NASA's Apollo 16 mission explored the surface of the Moon, a crater recently found on Mars similar to one investigated earlier by the astronauts was informally named for the lunar mis...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: On June 17, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) will celebrate 1,000 Earth days in orbit around the Red Planet. Since its launch in November 2013 and its orbi...

NASA named the "newest class of American heroes," as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence remarked during a June 12 ceremony in Houston to introduce 12 new astronauts to the program as NASA looks to a new era of space explorat...

Live coverage from the Paris Air and Space Show, 19-25 June

Mission officials for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which will be 100 times more powerful than Hubble, announced some of the science targets the telescope will observe following its launch and commissioning. These s...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft sees bright methane clouds drifting in the summer skies of Saturn's moon Titan, along with dark hydrocarbon lakes and seas clustered around the north pole...

Our week through the lens: 12-16 June 2017

The universe was born with the Big Bang as an unimaginably hot, dense point. SPACE.com offers an overview of the universe and its history, age and structure.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite brings us over northwest India with this false-colour image captured on 4 March 2017....

SpaceX test-fired a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket Thursday (June 15), paving the way for the booster's planned second liftoff on Monday (June 19).

A cone-shaped plume of fire and smoke erupted from the floor of the Utah desert today (June 15), as Orbital ATK completed a successful static test fire of the abort motor for NASA's Orion human spacecraft.

If we want to know whether there is life beyond Earth then the quickest way to answer that question is to explore Mars. That exploration is currently being done by remote space probes sent from Earth.