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Telesat and MDA will be requesting money from the Canadian government's new special fund to finance low-Earth-orbit satellite systems, officials from both companies say. SpaceNews.com

Media are invited to view NASA's Parker Solar Probe at 1:30 p.m. EDT Friday, July 13, at the Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida.

For clues on the space station's current status and the transition ahead, SpaceNews spoke with Sam Scimemi, ISS director at NASA headquarters. SpaceNews.com

NASA has issued a call for proposals to construct a second mobile launch platform that will be used by an upgraded version of the Space Launch System rocket starting in the early 2020s. SpaceNews.com

Lake Titicaca is bisected by the South American countries of Peru and Bolivia with the Andes Mountain range skirting up against its northwestern edge....

Hubble shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714 about 130 million light-years away in the constellation of Boötes (the Herdsman)....

Mars' north polar layered deposits comprise a thick stack of icy layers....

A natural stellar laboratory probes a prediction of general relativity to unprecedented precision --

The president continues to bring up the Space Force at military events and political rallies, where every mention draws applause and cheers from crowds. SpaceNews.com

The American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act takes a number of important steps to provide regulatory certainty for emerging commercial space applications; and to implement the United States' international obligation t...

The Long March 9 will be a Saturn 5-class super-heavy-lift rocket comparable in capacity to the Space Launch System currently being developed under NASA. SpaceNews.com

It turns out that Uranus is so weird because of a massive collision billions of years ago.

The barrier to dining like an astronaut living on the International Space Station has now been lowered.

An unusual celestial spectacle unfolds for observers around the Great Lakes region next Tuesday at dawn. The Moon has been faithfully occulting (passing in front of) the bright star Aldebaran for every lunation now since...

Astrophotographer Damian Peach created an animation showing the dramatic effects of the global dust storm that has plunged the Martian surface deep into darkness.

Carbon-rich organic molecules, which could potentially form the building blocks of life, have been discovered in the watery plumes spewing out from fissures in the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

The hunt for E.T. may have gotten more difficult. New research suggests that alien life may not be as widespread as we had hoped.

New research by a trans-Atlantic team of scientists suggests that bacteria could survive in briny chemicals that exist on Mars, Enceladus, Europa, Pluto and possibly elsewhere.

When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive and nasty particles, but how toxic is it for ...

New research by a trans-Atlantic team of scientists suggests that bacteria could survive in briny chemicals that exist on Mars, Enceladus, Europa, Pluto and possibly elsewhere.

Smoke billowed and flames lit up the predawn sky over Cape Canaveral as SpaceX successfully launched its 15th cargo-resupply mission on Friday (June 29).

America's space program is a necessity, not a luxury. While we should not have to qualify its importance, it is helpful to remember the good that NASA does.