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The first SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has completed a series of tests at a NASA center that may put the spacecraft one step closer to an uncrewed test flight later this year. SpaceNews.com

A year and a half after ministers declined to fund one mission to an asteroid, the European Space Agency is working on a second such mission that could support planetary defense efforts.

The July 9 launches were China's 19th and 20th of 2018, with CASC aiming to carry out around 36 launches this year. SpaceNews.com

LeoSat says Spanish satellite operator Hispasat has matched Sky Perfect Jsat's investment in its low Earth orbit broadband constellation, bringing the company closer to completing its $100 million Series A. SpaceNews.com

Congressional committee staffs turn over quickly so the industry needs to be continuously engaging officials on the Hill. SpaceNews.com

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesday launched a space agency, hailing it as a "milestone" as he campaigns ahead of elections at the end of the month.

Blue Origin expects to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle "soon" and start selling tickets for commercial flights next year, a company executive said June 19. SpaceNews.com

Carrying almost three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the International Space Station crew, the unpiloted Russian Progress 70 cargo craft launched at 5:51 p.m. EDT (3:51 a.m. July 10 in Baikonur) from the Baikonur C...

One of the main challenges with long-distance space flight is transporting enough oxygen for astronauts to breathe and enough fuel to power complex electronics --

Ever since NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered about the origin of Jupiter's lightning...

Last autumn, the world was excited by the discovery of an exoplanet called Ross 128 b, which is just 11 light years away from Earth. New work from a team led by Diogo Souto of Brazil's Observatório Nacional and includin...

At the rate the commercial sector is innovating, regulatory practices will need to be agile, evolving quickly while still providing needed order and protections. SpaceNews.com

At the rate the commercial sector is innovating, regulatory practices will need to be agile, evolving quickly while still providing needed order and protections. SpaceNews.com

Last autumn, the world was excited by the discovery of an exoplanet called Ross 128 b, which is just 11 light years away from Earth. New work from a team led by Diogo Souto of Brazil's Observatório Nacional and includin...

NASA has a new mission for Snoopy, 50 years after the comic strip beagle first entered service for the U.S. space program.

In a new special episode on Science Channel, explore Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft.

This gadget looks like a precursor to the devices medical officers use to scan patients in science fiction, and it is not far off. The MyotonPRO tests muscle tension and stiffness.

With no domestic demand for Energomash's premier products -- the RD-180 and RD-181 engines -- the company faces a potentially daunting gap. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected six women and men to join the elite corps of flight directors who will lead mission control for a variety of new operations at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A study led by the researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Ana Monreal Ibero proves the presence of probable organic molecules in galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

Skylab represented the United States' first effort at long human space missions.

Minerals deep inside Earth might contain telltale traces of collisions with dark matter -- the elusive stuff that researchers think makes up most of the matter in the Universe. Experiments designed to search for these tr...