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Engineers are continuing to work to free an instrument on NASA's InSight Mars lander that remains stuck just below the surface. SpaceNews.com

As our climate changes, the availability of freshwater is a growing issue for many people around the world. Understanding the water cycle and how the climate and human usage is causing shifts in natural cycling processes...

Eutelsat executives said the challenges getting Konnect Africa off the ground since 2016 are now largely in the rearview, but have nonetheless pushed any material revenue from the growth initiative out to the company's n...

Fifty years after man's first steps on the moon, the future of human exploration in the final frontier is at a critical turning point, ULA CEO Tory Bruno writes. SpaceNews.com

A sharp-eyed NASA spacecraft spotted the probable remains of an Israeli spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon last month.

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Media accreditation is open for SpaceX's third Falcon Heavy launch, targeted for Saturday, June 22, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

The first rover on the far side of the moon may have discovered the first samples from the moon's mantle, released from the lunar interior by a giant, ancient cosmic impact, a new study finds.

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A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon. The fourth Chang'E probe (CE-4) was the first mission to land on the far side of the moon, and it has co...

The Chang’e-4 mission appears to have found material excavated from a frozen magma ocean far below the lunar surface --

The monitoring of land subsidence is of vital importance for low-lying countries, but also areas which are prone to peculiar ground instability.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A new monument to the crew of the first moon landing will rise from the mission's launch site as the gift from an aptly-named financing company.

The payload and platform of the first European satellite that can be completely reprogrammed after launch have been successfully joined together. The assembly of Eutelsat Quantum took place in the Airbus facility in Toul...

Astronomers using the combined power of two Hawaii telescopes have taken groundbreaking, sharp new images of a distant planetary system that likely resembles a baby version of our solar system.

Asia Pacific Satellite Inc. and Iceye, the Finnish company that launched the first synthetic aperture radar microsatellite, announced a memorandum of understanding May 15 to deliver radar imagery to government and commer...

Based on new data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have provided more insights into properties of the nearby open cluster NGC 2682, revealing that its size is at least two times greater than previously believed. Th...

A thorough understanding of the 'solid Earth' system is essential for deciphering the links between processes occurring deep inside Earth and those occurring nearer the surface that lead to seismic activity such as earth...

Technology image of the week: the snow-capped peaks of New Zealand's South Island, taken by ESA's Earth-observing minisatellite, into its sixth year in orbit