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The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City is hosting a movie night that's out of this world on Friday (June 21).

Boeing announced June 19 it will move the headquarters of its space division from the Washington, DC area to Florida as a number of its major programs shift from development to operations. SpaceNews.com

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Britain's export credit agency has long discussed more involvement in the satellite industry, but didn't have any major deals to show for it until now. SpaceNews.com

The secretive startup SpinLaunch, which aims to fling satellites into space without a traditional launch pad, has just secured its first launch contract.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that the prime contractors for the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft received hundreds of millions of dollars in award fees despite continued issues tha...

An agreement reached in the U.S. House of Representatives June 18 could keep the Export Import Bank of the United States open until 2026. SpaceNews.com

A research team discovered two Earth-like planets in our cosmic backyard, and they reside in the perfect zone for water to form on their presumably rocky surfaces.

NASA has awarded the Environmental Test and Integration Services III contract to Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems' Technical Services Division (TSD) in Greenbelt, Maryland.

SpaceX is gearing up for its busiest Falcon Heavy megarocket launch yet and now, thanks the U.S. Air Force, we know what the epic rideshare looks like.

With funding from NASA, researchers are working to build robots that can explore moon pits, sinkhole-like structures that could be full of resources and could even make good astronaut homes.

Signals written in elements from the early universe have revealed the oldest known merger between two galaxies, taking place less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

The giant rocket NASA plans to use to return to the Moon by 2024 has been beset by delays and spending has overrun by almost 30 percent, an official audit said Wednesday.

On Tuesday (June 18), the project announced that it's made the largest data release ever in the search for extraterrestrial life.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft inched closer still to an asteroid called Bennu, breaking the record it set previously -- but the real reward is the stunning photographs the probe has captured since.

Good fortune and cutting-edge scientific equipment have allowed scientists to observe a Gamma Ray Burst jet with a radio telescope and detect the polarisation of radio waves within it for the first time--moving us closer...

Moon samples collected by the Apollo astronauts a half-century ago hold answers to questions that weren't even on scientists' minds at the time, as new technological tools provide insight into some of the oldest mysterie...

Breakthrough Listen--the astronomical program searching for signs of intelligent life in the Universe--has submitted two publications to leading astrophysics journals, describing the analysis of its first three years of ...

JUICE is the first large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. Its mission is devoted to complete a unique tour of the Jupiter system.

Using the Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have conducted observations of neutral gas in the galaxy JO206. Results of these observations provide important information regarding gas stripping and enhanced star formatio...

Media are invited to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from 6 to 10 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 27, to view the agency's mobile launcher as it makes its final roll on crawler-transporter 2 to Launch Pad 39B prior to the...

With its rocky, sandy terrain and buoyant salt water, the bottom of the ocean floor has more in common with the lunar surface than you might imagine. That is why this week two members of NASA mission NEEMO 23 are testing...