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Israel's attempt at a moon landing failed at the last minute Thursday when the craft suffered an engine failure as it prepared to land and apparently crashed onto the lunar surface.

ESA's 35-m deep space antenna in Malargüe, Argentina, has had a major refurbishment, getting it ready for the launch of Euclid in 2022 and able to transfer even greater quantities of 'space data'...

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A year on the space station has an undeniable impact across the human body, but many of the body's systems recover after a return to Earth.

COLORADO SPRINGS - The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) in partnership with the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit awarded Atlas Space Operations a contract to prototype an electronically steered ant...

When scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope unveiled the first image of a black hole April 10, astronomers around the world rejoiced. And so did Google.

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for acquisition Will Roper says the Air Force is looking for innovative space technologies. SpaceNews.com

NASA's commercial partner Northrop Grumman is scheduled to launch its Antares rocket carrying its Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the international Space Station at 4:46 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 17.

Shanahan on why a Space Force is needed: Threats are increasing and the importance of and the opportunities in space are growing. SpaceNews.com

NASA awarded Planet a $6.7 million contract to provide Earth imagery for climate research. SpaceNews.com

A new study takes a look at where the Voyager and Pioneer probes might one day venture to as they make their way through our galaxy The post Voyager and Pioneer’s Grand Tour of the Milky Way appeared first on Universe ...

An Israeli lunar lander originally built to win a prize competition crashed onto the surface of the moon April 11 when its main engine malfunctioned during descent. SpaceNews.com

The Israeli Beresheet spacecraft has crashed into the Moon. The craft, whose name is Hebrew for “in the beginning” made its descent to the Moon but failed to stick its landing. If it had been successful, it would hav...

The Google Lunar X Prize inspired the Beresheet mission to the moon, and today it may come to pass.

NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid ...

Results from NASA's landmark Twins Study, which took place from 2015-2016, were published Thursday in Science. The integrated paper -- encompassing work from 10 research teams -- reveals some interesting, surprising and ...

When President Trump announced plans to create a new military service for space in 2018, it took many by surprise. But the idea of creating a Space Force had been simmering behind the scenes for decades....

NASA Study reports physiological and behavioral results that could shape future space missions --

In a landmark study, a group of U.S. scientists from Johns Hopkins, Stanford University and other institutions has found no long-lasting, major differences between the epigenomes of astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a yea...

The Expedition 59 crew is now training to capture a U.S. cargo ship when it arrives at the International Space Station next week. The orbital lab residents are also busy researching how living in space affects the human ...

Anonymous to the public just days ago, a US computer scientist named Katie Bouman has become an overnight sensation due to her role in developing a computer algorithm that allowed researchers to take the world's first im...

Israel's first spacecraft to the moon was expected to make its historic landing there Thursday, making the Jewish state the fourth and smallest country to complete the trip.