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How do you build a spaceship? It's not easy, because space is risky - but potential payoffs are vast. ESA's track record allows us to manage that risk, balancing it with chances for rich rewards

India launched 29 satellites into orbit on April 1, 2019 on the heels of a military anti-satellite missile test.

A reanalysis of data collected by ESA's Mars Express during the first 20 months of NASA's Curiosity mission found one case of correlated methane detection, the first time an in-situ measurement has been independently con...

Venus will meet up with a slender, crescent moon on Tuesday (April 2), and you can catch the celestial pair together in the predawn sky.

The reports urges Congress to hold hearings on "achieving true and real competition in the national security launch market." SpaceNews.com

India's recent anti-satellite test created 60 pieces of orbital debris big enough to track, 24 of which rise higher than the International Space Station's orbit around Earth.

The ancient climate of Mars is a mystery to scientists. Even with all we’ve learned about Mars, it’s still difficult to explain how lakes and rivers existed. A new study shows that Martian rivers were swollen with ru...

ExoAnalytic Solutions, a company that tracks satellites and space debris using ground-based telescopes, announced a partnership April 1 with NorthStar Earth and Sky, a Canadian startup developing a constellation of 40 sa...

We learned how to figure out the ages of objects in the Solar System, now we push out into the deeper Universe. What about stars, galaxies, and even the Universe itself? How old is it? This episode is part 3 of a series....

NASA astronaut Anne McClain is apparently a fan of Aidy Bryant's portrayal of her on "Saturday Night Live."

The folks at aerospace giant Lockheed Martin do a lot of things in space. They launch rockets. They build Mars landers. And now, they're bottling the smell of space.

Astronomers have been grappling with the mystery of dark matter for a long time, and I mean a looong time. The history of dark-matter investigations goes back at least to 1906, when physicist Henri Poincaré's 1906 specu...

Little is known about the inner structure of the Moon, but a major step forward was made by a University of Rhode Island scientist who conducted experiments that enabled her to determine the temperature at the boundary o...

This is a high-gain antenna (HGA) and a future version of it will send and receive signals to and from Earth from a looping orbit around Jupiter....

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It's back to work for China's moon mission: The Chang'e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 rover both awoke over the weekend to start their fourth lunar day.

The Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft that launched three new Expedition 59-60 crew members to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Rassvet module....

This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (the Shield)....

New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn's rings....

At this 11th hour, the United States can still close the window of nuclear vulnerability, provided it can choose the right approach and act now. SpaceNews.com

New answers for mysteries concerning Saturn's moons could shed light on whether one, Enceladus, could support life.

We may be one step closer to cracking the Mars methane mystery.