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It also announced a first customer for that satellite servicing system, with satellite operator SES entering into an agreement for an initial life extension mission with options for future missions. SpaceNews.com

NASA invites the public to three days of discussion and storytelling with notable aerospace experts to mark the 100th anniversary of the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Portions of the event will a...

Scientists pursue research through observation, experimentation and modeling. They strive for all of these pieces to fit together, but sometimes finding the unexpected is even more exciting.

NASA Kennedy Space Center: The launch team that dispatched NASA's Cassini probe to Saturn almost 20 years ago aboard a Titan IVB rocket often recalls the months of work that went into preparing the massive, uncrewed spac...

To date, only 536 people have traveled to space and the vast majority have been men from a handful of nations. Dylan Taylor, a space industry angel investor and SpaceNews columnist, is eager to share the experience with ...

SpaceNews is producing the exclusive online show dailies for all four exhibit days at the 31st Conference on Small Satellites, happening Aug. 5 - 10, 2017, at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: There are no mechanics on Mars, so the next best thing for NASA's Curiosity rover is careful driving. A new algorithm is helping the rover do just that. The software, r...

After scrapping an attempt at a satellite servicing business six years ago, MDA Corp. launched a new venture June 28 to repair and refuel satellites in orbit using a spacecraft it is building for the U.S. Defense Advance...

European launch provider Arianespace carried three customer payloads to orbit June 28 through the launch of two satellites, one for India and another that is split between fleet operators Inmarsat and Hellas Sat. SpaceNe...

An Ariane 5 carrying two telecom satellites inside a new lighter fairing lifted off on the fourth mission from Europe's Spaceport in two months.

In what appears to be a historic first, a chicken sandwich was successfully carried to the edge of space today aboard a high-altitude balloon.

Operations image of the week: Its prime technology demonstration mission is complete and teams are preparing for the final shut down of LISA Pathfinder on 18 July

Onboard the International Space Station today, the Expedition 52 crew continued packing the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship for its departure Sunday morning. The crew is loading Dragon all week with scientific samples and st...

Every day, Earth is hit by 60 to 300 metric tons of space dust and smaller meteors. But sometimes, larger and more dangerous space rocks plummet to Earth, such as on June 30, 1908 when an estimated 40 meter-wide meteoroi...

"Physicists have been looking for extra dimensions at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN but up to now this search has yielded no results," says physicist Gustavo Lucena Gómez at Université Libre de Bruxelles. "But grav...

Human spaceflight image of the week: Aquanauts wrap up a 10-day underwater mission testing exploration technology.

Swiss satellite and rocket component supplier Ruag Space opened a new factory June 27 at its Linköping, Sweden location, doubling its production capacity. SpaceNews.com

A NASA sounding rocket launched early this morning and lit up the skies over the U.S. East Coast with colorful clouds, ringing in an early July 4 celebration.

SpaceX intends to launch a final upgrade to the Falcon 9 rocket, known as the Block 5, later this year, and has three Falcon Heavy launches planned for the next 18 months.

On June 3, 1966, two NASA astronauts blasted off on the three-day Gemini 9 mission to rendezvous with another spacecraft and test out a rocket-powered jet pack. But the mission didn't quite go according to plan.

While Mars has water ice beneath its surface, extracting the liquid for future human missions will be a challenge.

Rocky planets are probably a whole lot more common in our galaxy than astronomers previously believed--according to the latest release of Kepler Space Telescope data last week--a scenario that enhances the prospects for ...