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Fresh off its purchase of geospatial intelligence firm OGSystems in January, Parsons is searching for more companies to buy that would further expand its presence in space, among other industries. SpaceNews.com

DIU: We are working with companies like Rocket Labs and Vox which are more mature as well as potentially disruptive ones like SpinLaunch. SpaceNews.com

Great news! Humankind’s greatest-ever engineering project is nearing completion. Soon we will have warmed the Earth enough to get rid of all those pesky ice sheets and other frozen areas. The finish line is in sight. I...

Media are invited to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans at 9:30 a.m. CDT Friday, June 28, to view progress on the rocket core stage for the Space Launch System's Artemis 1 Moon mission.

Media are invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 2, celebrating the renaming of NASA's Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia, afte...

The Red Planet may be more habitable than previously thought.

Some sort of a heat wave has warmed the rings of Uranus, even though the planet orbits far away from the sun.

How do spacecraft know where they are? There’s no GPS out there. Right now, it involves sending a signal to the spacecraft which the spacecraft then sends right back to Earth. The elapsed time reveals the distance. But...

China's major space missions including a lunar sample return, Mars orbiter and rover and a modular space station could be facing delays due to an apparent issue affecting rockets required for launches. SpaceNews.com

As part of a double anniversary celebration, the modern sci-fi classic "Moon" will be available for the first time on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray.

"Apollo 11" is launching onto the small screen, the giant screen and the only screen in outer space.

This Monday (June 24), the nonprofit organization The Planetary Society will launch LightSail 2, the first spacecraft propelled solely by sunlight.

Rockets from the European Space Agency (ESA) fly into space with support from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Imaging carried out at PSI in cooperation with Dassault Aviation ensures the quality of certain components ...

DoD statement: "An acting director of SDA will be announced soon." SpaceNews.com

Kelly Latimer, 54, is a test pilot for Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit--two commercial space companies owned by British billionaire Richard Branson. For space tourism company Virgin Galactic, Latimer flies the giant, tw...

With a new telescope situated on a scenic plateau in Tenerife, Spain, MIT planetary scientists now have an added way to search for Earth-sized exoplanets. Artemis, the first ground-based telescope of the SPECULOOS Northe...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Summer is about to officially begin here in the Northern Hemisphere, marking the shortest nights and the longest days.

A German telescope is ready to search for dark energy and other strange things in the universe.

This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been quiet to date, but meteorologists always know that could change. Soon they'll have a new tool for improving forecasts of how these storms will behave.

ESA plans to intercept a comet entering our solar system

A new Government Accountability Office report called on NASA to develop a contingency plan to maintain access to the station after next September should commercial crew vehicles suffer additional delays. SpaceNews.com