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The Air Force Space Test Program has awarded contracts to Rocket Lab and Vox Space. More vendors could be selected. SpaceNews.com

There are two rocket launches, a spacecraft docking, a lunar orbit arrival and an asteroid crash scheduled on Thursday (April 4). Here's how to watch live.

Centuries ago, large, wooden ships explored the seven seas. But often a ship that began its voyage with a crew of hundreds could return with tens. The silent killer? Scurvy, a disease that occurs when there's a lack of V...

Raymond says he 'fully supports' DoD's Space Force proposal SpaceNews.com

When NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landed in 2012, it brought along eclipse glasses. The solar filters on its Mast Camera (Mastcam) allow it to stare directly at the Sun. Over the past few weeks, Curiosity has been putting...

European launch provider Arianespace completed SES's first-generation O3b constellation April 4 with the Soyuz launch of four satellites. SpaceNews.com

Water vapor poured across the Mississippi landscape as NASA ground-tested an engine type that may take astronauts to the moon in the next three years.

Lockheed Martin's April Fools' Day joke passed the smell test.

A Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Thursday carrying four telecommunications and internet satellites, according to France's National Centre for Space Studies.

If you’re not a chemist, an astrobiologist, or a scientist of any sort, and that includes most of us, then a tiny, almost imperceptible whiff of methane in the Martian atmosphere might seem like no big deal. But it is,...

After a minor delay, SpaceX has conducted the first successful hop test of their Starship Hopper, a key step in validating the systems that will go into the full-scale prototype. The post The Starhops Have Begun! appeare...

NASA has awarded the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract (SMAEC) II to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Reston, Virginia.

Media are invited to attend the sixth International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland, April 29 - May 3.

A fragment of a planet that has survived the death of its star has been discovered by University of Warwick astronomers in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets, which the star ultimately consumes.

The iron core of what was once a world has been found around a white dwarf star, shedding light on the final days of planetary systems—including our own --

For almost 500 people in the southeastern United States, getting up early Thursday was its own reward.

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket is set to deploy four satellites into space today (April 4) after a successful launch from French Guiana.

SpaceIL announced April 4 that its Beresheet spacecraft has entered orbit around the moon, setting the stage for a landing attempt in a week. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

When Simone Di Matteo first saw the patterns in his data, it seemed too good to be true. "It's too perfect!" Di Matteo, a space physics Ph.D. student at the University of L'Aquila in Italy, recalled thinking. "It can't b...

The first Israeli spacecraft to journey to the moon has passed its most crucial test yet: dropping into lunar orbit one week ahead of landing.

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques snapped a photo of a Russian cargo spacecraft's zigzag launch trail from the International Space Station this morning (April 4).