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This year marks the 40th anniversary of "Alien," and fans have lots of reasons to celebrate -- including new short films.

Rocket Lab successfully launched an experimental satellite for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency March 28 as the company looks to move to a monthly cadence of launches. SpaceNews.com

A small asteroid has been caught in the process of spinning so fast it's throwing off material, according to new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories....

Scisys Group, a formerly British company involved in the European Union's Galileo satellite program, says its change of location from Chippenham, England, to Dublin, Ireland, was immediately positive for its space busine...

This week, we discuss the celestial dogs romping around our early evening springtime sky.

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch successfully completed a spacewalk at the International Space Station today to continue an ongoing power upgrade at the orbiting lab.

Germany's Zweibrücken Observatory bears a striking resemblance to a beloved "Star Wars" sidekick.

United Nations-backed talks to prevent an arms race in outer space ended without agreement on Friday, delivering another blow to global disarmament diplomacy.

In the wake of the March 27 Indian anti-satellite test, Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation suggested companies consider boycotting India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

Two proposed microsatellites could help NASA explore Venus and the moon.

ESA's Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, was recently declaredready to flyafter completing a series of final spacecraft tests.

This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (the Shield). Messier 11 is also known as the Wild Duck Cluster, as its brightest stars form a "V" sh...

Shortly after Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return humans to the moon by 2024, reactions from space companies and organizations ranged from excitement to bewilderment.

The newfound beast is a blind, cave-dwelling, aquatic crustacean.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

New Space, quest for innovation and integrated applications, new business models, global challenges: this is the scenario that the ESA Education programme is now even more equipped to address with the inauguration of Gal...

Our week through the lens: 25 - 29 March 2019

A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced legislation designed to reform commercial launch and remote sensing regulations, this time without a provision that led to the bill's defeat last year in the House. SpaceNe...

Instead of shrinking, this giant glacier is growing, NASA scientists found.

Spacewalking astronauts hustled through battery hookups outside the International Space Station on Friday in a major upgrade of the solar power grid.

U.S. Strategic Command was handed the responsibility last fall to solve one of the Defense Department's most sensitive and complex technology problems: the modernization of the nation's nuclear command, control and commu...

Between 1969 and 1972, a new type of archaeological site was created. For the first time, human bodies and the technology needed to sustain them altered the landscape of another world. The astronauts from the six Apollo ...