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As part of a scientific collaboration with the Mexican Space Agency and other Mexican scientific public entities, ESA has combined images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to produce a detailed view of the different...

The Commerce Department plans to soon release a new rule designed to streamline licensing of commercial remote sensing systems with what one official called a "fundamentally different" approach for licensing. SpaceNews.c...

While it may not be your typical Halloween fare, a pumpkin held aloft by a parachute and an air blower is par for the course when engineers engage in a pumpkin carving contest at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasad...

According to new study supported by NASA, a team of researchers found that Mars may have enough oxygen in subsurface environments to support life. The post There Might be Enough Oxygen Below the Surface of Mars to Suppor...

Shanahan envisions the Space Development Agency will have a technology-focused mission but also would help consolidate duplicative efforts currently pursued by individual services. SpaceNews.com

The Pentagon official responsible for space policy says he expects an "exciting and interesting discussion" in Congress next year when the House and Senate take up the administration's proposal to establish a Space Force...

Media are invited to see a test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft, as well as the hardware that will be used to recover the spacecraft on its return from space, at 9 a.m. PST Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Naval Base San Diego.

Glow in the dark stars twinkling inside his childhood bedroom and science fiction books in his lap, Shayan Shirshekar grew up like most kids fascinated by space. When he was old enough to say what he wanted to be when he...

The Space Force that U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to set up could be a dim prospect if Republicans lose control of either the House or Senate when voters go to the polls Nov. 6 for the midterm electio...

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Eight months after SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into space, the sports car can now be found 170 million miles away from Earth -- and on local toy store shelves.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite takes us over Kyoto, shown in the top right, and Osaka, seen in the bottom left of this image. This striking false-colour image captures two of Japan's larger cities, which are home t...

Botany science and solar array photography were on the Expedition 57 crew's schedule today including ongoing maintenance of the orbital lab....

The "Ghost of Cassiopeia," a slowly eroding cloud of gas and dust, forms a glimmering haze in this eerie image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel, "Red Moon" (Orbit, 2018), readers launch 30 years into the future and follow the lives of humans living and working on the moon.

By tracking every neutrino that hit a detector beneath a mountain in Italy over ten years, scientists have painted the most detailed picture yet of the sun's interior.

Member states of the European Space Agency met this week in Madrid to coordinate their strategy for the next triennial ministerial meeting. SpaceNews.com

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell is now considered the father of the U.S. Air Force, but the Air Force has forgotten the lessons of Mitchell's experience when it comes to the new combat domain of space. Spac...

Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on the lowest ranking members of Starfleet.

JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's) Hayabusa2 mission is on track to return samples from its target asteroid, 162173 Ryugu, a C-type Near Earth Asteroid (NEA). The past month has seen the successful deployment ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A team of Hungarian astronomers and physicists may have confirmed two elusive clouds of dust, in semi-stable points just 400,000 kilometres from Earth. The clouds, first reported by and named for Polish astronomer Kazimi...