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A Soyuz rocket launched the first six OneWeb satellites on Feb. 27, 2019. See the photos here!

The first batch of satellites that will make up OneWeb's immense global satellite internet constellation successfully launched into orbit today (Feb. 27).

After a brief staycation caused by a technical glitch, the Curiosity rover is back to gathering data on a clay-rich region of Mars, according to a NASA statement released today (Feb. 28).

Maxar Technologies has decided not to sell or shut down its commercial geostationary orbit satellite business, but will restructure it with a greater emphasis on smaller satellites and government customers. SpaceNews.com

Roving robots reveal remarkable research about the Red Planet.

We all know bubbles from soapy baths or sodas. These bubbles of everyday experience on Earth are up to a few inches across, and consist of a thin film of liquid enclosing a small volume of air or other gas. In space, how...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement Wednesday that Canada would be partnering with NASA and spending 2 billion Canadian dollars ($1.4 billion) over 24 years on the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway ...

Researchers have noted a distinct dearth of small craters on Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

Using New Horizons data from the Pluto-Charon flyby in 2015, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists have indirectly discovered a distinct and surprising lack of very small objects in the Kuiper Belt. The e...

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the announcement Thursday by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about Canada's support for the Gateway lunar outpost and deep space exploration:

An uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station will be a crucial milestone for the company’s grand vision of private spaceflight --

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

It has been a great week for humans banging on things around the solar system. Japan's Hayabusa2 probe touched down and grabbed a sample of asteroid Ryugu; NASA's InSight is hammering into the surface of Mars; and a priv...

Virgin Galactic's first test passenger spent part of her flight Feb. 22 "spidermanning along the ceiling" as the VSS Unity spacecraft successfully soared to a peak altitude that some say brought the spacecraft into space...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory:

A bill introduced by a bipartisan pair of senators Feb. 27 would authorize an extension of the International Space Station to 2030 and also make permanent human settlement of space a national goal.

Astronomers have spotted a puzzlingly old, dusty white dwarf star, the remains of a star like our own sun, that may change their understanding of how white dwarfs influence their environments.

SpaceX will try to send a dummy to the International Space Station this weekend in a key test for resuming manned US space flights, perhaps this year if all goes well.

Some of the peculiar aspects of our solar system--an enveloping cloud of comets, dwarf planets in weird orbits and, if it truly exists, a possible Planet Nine far from the sun--have been linked to the close approach of a...

Low-cost internet access from LEO constellations is one of the products that the Air Force wants to be able to acquire and use as soon as possible. SpaceNews.com

Humankind's most distant outpost was recently captured crossing the face of our enormous and gleaming sun. The fleeting transit of the International Space Station was over in the blink of an eye, but Ian Griffin, Directo...