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Three crew members have arrived safely at the International Space Station, following a successful launch and docking of their Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft Thursday.

IBEX is helping astronomers figure out where the edge of our solar system ends and the rest of space begins.

Durham, North Carolina-based Nuvotronics will enhance Cubic's protected communications portfolio, which includes GATR inflatable satcom terminals used by the U.S. military and other customers, Cubic said. SpaceNews.com

Four astronauts are preparing for their first spacewalks outside the International Space Station, scheduled for March 22, March 29 and April 8.

The CHIME radio telescope aims to explain two poorly understood cosmic phenomena, one dating back to the early universe and one taking place today.

Every once in a while, the Milky Way ejects a star. The evicted star is typically ejected from the chaotic area at the center of the galaxy, where our Super Massive Black Hole (SMBH) lives. But at least one of them was e...

This massively bright "star" is actually two stars.

A gigantic solar storm hit Earth about 2,600 years ago, one about 10 times stronger than any solar storm recorded in the modern day, a new study finds.

To mark the three-year anniversary of the Trace Gas Orbiter's arrival at Mars, the European Space Agency has released a stunning image the craft captured of NASA's InSight lander earlier this month.

Space mining could help open up the inner solar system to exploration.

Avio, the company that builds Europe's light-lift Vega rocket and the future Vega C, reported a double-digit jump in revenue for its first full year as a publicly traded company. SpaceNews.com

Media accreditation now is open for the next SpaceX delivery of supplies, equipment and science investigations to the International Space Station.

Future spaceships could use black holes as powerful launch pads to explore the stars.

Fast-forward to 2019, and the age of the predictable Iridium flare may be coming to an end. Already, scrolling through Heavens-Above reveals very few Iridium flares for the coming months, and these familiar nighttime fla...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Nairobi, one of the fastest growing cities in East Africa....

The Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu-2 have powered down for a third lunar nighttime on the far side of the moon, with the rover reaching its design lifetime.

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch, and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos joined NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Expedition 59 commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian S...

Our week through the lens: 11 - 15 March 2019

Curious surface features, water-formed minerals, 3-D stereo views, and even a sighting of the InSight lander showcase the impressive range of imaging capabilities of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are cooking up an alien atmosphere right here on Earth. In a new study, JPL scientists used a high-temperature "oven" to heat a mixture of hydrogen...

Spock and Burnham bicker like typical quarrelsome siblings and Adm. Cornwell becomes a fugitive in the "Star Trek: Discovery" episode "Project Daedalus."

NASA's first rover mission to Mars, the Pathfinder, imaged an extraterrestrial marine spillover landscape 22 years ago, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez.