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One new rocket challenge is encouraging diversity and offering a staggering $1 million prize.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has woken up from hibernation to prepare for a historic New Year's Day flyby.

A Russian space capsule carrying three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station two days after it was launched from Kazakhstan.

Senate appropriators offered a budget increase to the Federal Aviation Administration office that licenses commercial launches, while also calling on the office to streamline its regulatory processes. SpaceNews.com

British satellite operator Inmarsat rejected an acquisition offer from EchoStar Corp. of Englewood, Colorado, curbing hopes that consolidation could reduce an oversupply of satellite capacity. SpaceNews.com

Some scientists think that during several ancient episodes, the planet plunged into a deep freeze known as "Snowball Earth," when ice sheets grew to cover almost the entire planet. However, the number of these episodes, ...

Two astronauts and a cosmonaut docked with the International Space Station on Friday and joined the current crew after blasting off two days earlier, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said.

Our week through the lens: 4 - 8 June 2018

Highlights of the Soyuz docking and hatch opening, marking the arrival of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst on board the Space Station for the six-month Horizons mission

For World Oceans Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the Atlantic Ocean and the Republic of Cabo Verde....

You've never seen a Russian Soyuz rocket launch quite like this.

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered new "tough" organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks on Mars, increasing the chances that the record of habitability and potential life could have been preserved...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has imaged changes in lava flow from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii

German satellite manufacturer OHB System expects to finalize a contract in June with the European Space Agency to build a spacecraft to search for exoplanets. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

On June 4, 2018, a used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the SES-12 satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. See photos of the dazzling launch here!

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst arrived at the International Space Station today together with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev, marking the start of Alexander's Horizons mi...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of complex organic matter preserved in the topmost layers of the Martian surface, scientists report today in the journal Science.

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three crewmembers successfully joined with the International Space Station today (June 8), doubling the population of the orbiting complex to six people.

Astronomers have discovered new magnetic fields in space, which could shed light on how stars are formed and uncover the mysteries behind one of the most famous celestial images.

Universal Pictures has released the first look at "First Man.". Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong as he faced "one of the most dangerous missions in history," Apollo 11.

A majority of Americans in a new national survey expressed support for a vision of space exploration largely at odds with the federal government’s present plans --