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The SpaceX Dragon space freighter approaches the International Space Station as the Canadarm2 robotic arm is poised to reach out and grapple the commercial resupply ship....

A satellite network that can zoom in on ships at sea and check for oil spills in almost real time has demonstrated its capabilities at a high-level international event in Brussels.

As NASA's Parker Solar Probe approaches its third encounter with the Sun, mission scientists are hard at work poring over data from the spacecraft's first two flybys of our star -- and thanks to excellent performance by ...

The International Space Station is hosting five spaceships today as August ramps up for more orbital traffic activity. Six Expedition 60 crewmembers are also unloading U.S. and Russian cargo, activating new science exper...

On Aug. 10, an asteroid about the size of the Empire State Building will pass close by Earth, but it will not hit us.

SpaceX plans to build facilities at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A for launches and, eventually, landings of its next-generation launch vehicle, according to a newly released report. SpaceNews.com

Months after President Donald Trump announced the creation of the U.S. Space Force, France is beginning to lay the groundwork for its own version.

Good news from The Planetary Society: LightSail 2’s solar sail is functioning as intended. After launching on June 25th, then deploying its solar sail system on July 23rd, mission managers have been working with the so...

There are few places in the Solar System which are as fascinating as Saturn's moon Titan. It's a world with a thicker atmosphere than Earth. Where it's so cold that it rains ammonia, forming lakes, rivers and seas. Where...

See photos from SpaceX's spectacular launch and docking of the CRS-18 Dragon cargo mission for NASA in July 2019!

In the hunt for life on other worlds, astronomers scour over planets that are light-years away. They need ways to identify life from afar--but what counts as good evidence?

With the Artemis program, NASA aims to land the first woman on the moon, but the agency has yet to announce which of the 12 women who are currently active in NASA's astronaut corps will take on the mission.

Glaciologists mapped out ice velocity in Antarctica using data from six satellites.

NASA's renewed effort to return humans to the moon draws inescapable parallels to Apollo a half-century ago. SpaceNews.com

Uncertainty in science is a good thing. Because here's how the scientific model works: you observe a phenomenon, then form a hypothesis about why that phenomenon is taking place, then test the hypothesis, which leads you...

Scientists can tell a lot about a star by the light it gives off. The color, for example, reveals its surface temperature and the elements in and around it. Brightness correlates with a star's mass, and for many stars, b...

A team of researchers at the University of Warsaw has created the most accurate 3-D model of the Milky Way Galaxy to date. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group explains how they used measurements fr...

Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. But how could that be?

Improved data analysis could substantially increase the total known planets from NASA’s K2 mission, revealing fascinating new worlds and intriguing planetary patterns --

The launch of a Long March 2C from Xichang last week included a first use of grid fins by China to minimize the threat posed by the spent first stage to populated areas downrange.

A report released Aug. 1 concluded that a problem with an instrument on the GOES-17 weather satellite is likely caused by some kind of blockage in a system used to cool the instrument. SpaceNews.com

Moons of "hot Jupiter" alien worlds may detach from their parent planets and begin orbiting stars on their own.