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Last week at the Airbus integration hall in Bremen, Germany, technicians installed the last radiator on the European Service Module for NASA's Orion spacecraft marking the module's finished integration. ESA's European se...

SpaceX exceeded everyone's expectations tonight by announcing that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa bought not just one but all of the seats in a BFR mission to fly by the Moon....

SpaceX announced Sept. 17 that a Japanese billionaire will be paying an undisclosed but significant sum to buy a flight of the company's next-generation rocket for a flight around the moon carrying a group of artists. Sp...

Melanie Stricklan, Slingshot Aerospace: "We see a big need for SSA solutions, not just in the military but also in academia and in satellite owners and operators." SpaceNews.com

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson's Space Force proposal dropped on the first day of the Air Force Association's Air Space Cyber symposium, and it took the community by storm. SpaceNews.com

The Air Force's advocacy group, the Air Force Association, is taking off the gloves and pointedly voicing opposition to separating space out of the Air Force. SpaceNews.com

A new study by an international team of researchers has indicated the need for artificial gravity to mitigate the effects of microgravity on astronauts' eyesight. The post To Avoid Vision Problems in Space, Astronauts Wi...

NASA Lunar Science Institute: As the US prepares to return to the surface of the Moon, scientists from the RIS4E node of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), led by researchers from the St...

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and a hand-picked coterie of artists could embark on a lunar mission within five years --

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Imagine being on Mercury, flying over its craters and dust. You turn around, the sunlight is really strong, but you can see a new arrived probe, BepiColombo. Big solar panels catch you...

The signal extends over a huge swath of space, an area that's 2.5 times bigger than the orbit of Pluto.

After announcing that he'll take the first-ever commercial rocket trip around the moon, Yusaku Maezawa said he wants company for the weeklong journey. The Japanese billionaire said he plans to invite six to eight artists...

Galaxies in the early universe are shrouded in a kind of mist: a cloud of hydrogen. With galaxies in the later universe this mist has disappeared. Astronomer Jorryt Matthee has made the first images of this dissipating m...

Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way--the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds--may have had a third companion, astronomers believe.

NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument powered on and opened its cover to scan the Earth for the first time, resulting in a "first light" image of the Western Hemisphere in the ultraviole...

There's nothing new under the sun -- or around the moon.

Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa has signed an unprecedented deal with SpaceX to be the first private passenger to fly around the moon on a BFR rocket. Here's how the mission will work.

Tantalizing new evidence has suggested that there may be a salty lake below a glacier on Mars.

This image shows the south-facing rim of a pit crater at 68°S in the Sisyphi Planum region of Mars. It is a colour composite made from images acquired on 2 September 2018 by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System,...

A new graphic biography details the life and science of the late Stephen Hawking.

Yusaku Maezawa may not be the only billionaire aboard SpaceX's 2023 lunar fly-around mission. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk didn't rule out the possibility of joining him.

The Apollo 8 mission took astronauts around the moon for the first time.