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What month is the clearest of the year for stargazing? For much of the U.S., the answer is October.

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine on Friday praised the Russian space programme and said he expected a new crew to go to the International Space Station in December despite a rocket failure.

Arianespace said Oct. 11 it's too soon to say whether the Soyuz-ST rockets it uses to launch satellites from South America will be grounded following the failure of a Russian Soyuz-FG rocket carrying crew to the Internat...

LeoSat's strategic partners, Spanish satellite operator Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat of Japan, are helping the constellation developer update its satellite design. SpaceNews.com

NASA's chief heard one reassuring sound over the radio link after the aborted launch of a Soyuz capsule with an American and a Russian aboard.

U.S. astronaut Nick Hague thanked Russian rescue teams Friday for quickly reaching him and his Russian crewmate after an aborted launch that led to their emergency landing in the barren steppes of Kazakhstan.

According to a new study by an international team of scientists, quantum mechanics may allow for some truly-cutting edge astronomy in the near future. The post Next Generation Telescopes Could Use “Teleportation” to ...

Another NASA space telescope has shut down and halted science observations.

The next-generation crewed spacecraft will be the payload for the first flight of the Long March 5B launch vehicle, a variant of the Long March 5 and designed for lofting large modules of the planned Chinese Space Statio...

Defense officials have been sounding alarms about what they describe as a glaring national security vulnerability -- a new class of ultrafast weapons being developed by China and Russia that would overpower U.S. missile ...

Statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about the Senate confirmation of James Morhard as the agency's deputy administrator

NASA astronaut Nick Hague was one of the two men aboard the Soyuz rocket that failed soon after launch yesterday (Oct. 11) -- and NASA had hardly confirmed that he was safe before speculation about his flight schedule be...

Members of an independent NASA safety panel said they were worried that the Oct. 11 Soyuz launch failure could make safety concerns with the agency's commercial crew program even worse.

Details surrounding the dramatic abort of the Oct. 11 Soyuz MS-10 launch are coming into focus. Russian space officials say that one of the Soyuz rocket's four strap-on boosters failed to properly separate and nicked the...

Elementary school students from Missouri and Colorado will talk live with an astronaut on the International Space Station next week.

On Oct. 11, 2018, a Russian Soyuz rocket failed during the launch of two astronauts toward the International Space Station. Read all about the incident and its aftermath here.

"Prospect" is an indie darling sci-fi film, inspired by the rough, dirty, dangerous worlds of classics like "Alien," "Dune" and "Star Wars."

How (and why) was the U.S. Air Force investigating UFOs between 1952 and 1969?

Find out how our three new space explorers, Bepi, Mio and MTM, have been preparing for their epic adventure to Mercury

Our week through the lens: 8 - 12 October 2018

Six minutes of free fall, a gentle impact on the asteroid and then 11 minutes of rebounding until coming to rest. That is how, in the early hours of 3 October 2018, the journey of the MASCOT asteroid lander began on Aste...

Roscosmos now says one of the Soyuz rocket's four strap-on boosters failed to properly separate and nicked the core stage. SpaceNews.com