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The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) is eager to increase development testing. SpaceNews.com

Tethers Unlimited is designing a satellite servicing vehicle that would leverage technologies developed for the U.S. Defense Department and NASA to service spacecraft in low Earth orbit. SpaceNews.com

The Planetary Society is going to launch their LightSail 2 CubeSat next month. LightSail 2 is a test mission designed to study the feasibility of using sunlight for propulsion. The small satellite will use the pressure o...

India is launching a new Earth-observation satellite today (May 21), and you can watch it lift off live online!

GAO predicts the OCX schedule will continue to slip. Raytheon: "The GAO findings are inaccurate." SpaceNews.com

This week I had a fantastic opportunity to interview one of my favorite authors, Dennis E. Taylor, the author of We Are Legion (We Are Bob), and the rest of the Bobiverse Trilogy. We had a great conversation about the ch...

China's Chang'e-4 lunar mission recently gathered data that suggests that the impact that created the largest impact crater on the Moon could have blasted some of its mantle material onto the surface. The post Chang’e-...

Earlier this month, engineers put the Mars 2020 rover's fully assembled spacecraft through some tests at the Space Simulator Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names -- etched on microchips -- to the Red Planet with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, which represents ...

NASA is getting ready to launch living creatures to deep space for the first time in nearly five decades.

The newly translated book "Finding Our Place in the Universe" details how scientists discovered the vast supercluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way.

Researchers just created the world's first image of a terrestrial gamma-ray burst.

The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes the Earth's axis. Both were essential for Earth to develop life. Plane...

Gravity: We can live with it, and it turns out we can live without it, for a little while anyway.

NASA's aging 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter recently snapped some unique views of the twin moons Phobos and Deimos, in an effort to better understand their texture and surface composition. The post Mars Odyssey Reveals Phobos...

Astronomers at the University of Bonn and their colleagues from Moscow have identified an unusual celestial object. It is most likely the product of the fusion of two stars that died a long time ago. After billions of ye...

NASA astronaut Anne McClain performs the first series of tests of an Astrobee robot, Bumble, during a hardware checkout. To her right is the docking station that was installed in the Kibo module on the International Spac...

For the first time, a cross-disciplinary study has shown chemical, physical, and material evidence for water formation on the moon. Two teams from the University of Hawai i at Mānoa collaborated on the project: physical...

Astronomers have discovered a so-called proto-disc around the proto-brown dwarf Mayrit. With this discovery, they were able to confirm for the first time that this celestial body was formed in the same way as sun-like st...

On April 23 at 9:09 p.m. local time, residents of Aguas Zarcas, a small town in Costa Rica, saw a large "fireball" in the sky.

Experts argue that more than 85 percent of the solar system should be left untouched so that we can sustainably move off-world --

For decades, access to space has been limited based on a set of preconceived beliefs about human bodies -- but capitalism is chipping away at those restrictions.