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Precisely 50 years ago today, three astronauts blasted off into the achingly blue sky and sped into orbit around Earth. The flight was a crucial stepping stone to the moon landing that occured just nine months later.

A covert companion siphoned material from its stellar neighbor before it exploded in a fiery death, a new study suggests.

In the final minutes of a recent close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a departing view of the planet's swirling southern hemisphere....

Like SES, government agencies and space companies are applying artificial intelligence to various problems they face. SpaceNews.com

Like millions of other people around the world, on July 20, 1969, Rick and Mark Armstrong watched Apollo 11's moon landing on the television set in their living room. But for those two boys - aged 12 and 6 at the time - ...

Fresh off the success of a recent contract win to connect IBM Cloud customers with O3b satellites, SES's chief executive said many of the operator's future geostationary satellites will have attributes of O3b to appeal t...

Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. With no immediate plans for such a voyage, the Western University graduate student has done the next best thing. He's gone and found one.

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two crew members to the ISS has experienced a booster failure. The craft executed an emergency landing and both crew are safe. The post Soyuz Launch Carrying Two Astronauts is Forced to Abort,...

According to a new study from the Planetary Science Institute, Ceres poles reoriented sometime in the past, which bolsters the case for it having an interior ocean. The post Ceres Rolled Over at Some Point in the Past ap...

Carnegie's Anthony Piro was part of a Caltech-led team of astronomers who observed the peculiar death of a massive star that exploded in a surprisingly faint and rapidly fading supernova, possibly creating a compact neut...

The taxi service to the orbiting International Space Station is taking no passengers until further notice.

With Russia's Soyuz spacecraft grounded for an indefinite period, NASA managers said Oct. 11 that they will look at ways to keep the current International Space Station crew in orbit for an extended period if needed. Spa...

NASA will hold a news conference at noon EDT today, to provide a status update on the International Space Station following this morning's Soyuz spacecraft abort during launch that ended with the safe landing of two Expe...

Operations image of the week: the spectacular launch of Argentina's Earth observation satellite, with a little help from ESA, shows how collaboration is of growing importance to the success of space missions

The accident occurred during the rocket’s ascent from the launch pad, allowing an abort system to jettison the crew to safety --

The accident occurred during the rocket’s ascent from the launch pad, allowing an abort system to jettison the crew to safety --

Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin retained an enviable sang-froid Thursday as he realised while travelling at thousands of miles an hour that his spacecraft would have to make an emergency landing.

A Soyuz space rocket carrying a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut suffered an engine problem and the crew had to make an emergency landing minutes after lift-off on Thursday.

The aborted launch of a Soyuz rocket with US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin on Thursday was the first such accident in the history of manned launches in modern Russia.

The three astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station were supposed to welcome two new roommates today; here's what will happen instead.

A team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered a new case of galactic cannibalism in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, which has caused the merging of two galaxies on the smallest scale so far...