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TriSept Corp., a launch integration and mission management company based in Chantilly, Virginia, announced work Aug. 5 with Rocket Lab and Millennium Space Systems on Dragracer, a mission to demonstrate a way to de-orbit...

NASA's Curiosity rover has come a long way since touching down on Mars seven years ago. It has traveled a total of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and ascended 1,207 feet (368 meters) to its current location. Along the way, Cur...

Ariane 5 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana to place the second EDRS satellite in its planned orbit

Arianespace launched an Ariane 5 rocket Tuesday (Aug. 6) from Kourou, French Guiana, sending two new telecommunications satellites into orbit.

According to recent statements and images from their facilities, SpaceX is making progress and will have big news for us on August 24th! The post Elon Musk Outlines the Next Few Weeks of Starship Tests appeared first on ...

An Indian spacecraft is taking the scenic route to the moon and has the photos to prove it.

When you look up at the moon, there may now be a few thousand water bears looking back at you.

Today (Aug. 6), the Cygnus CRS-11 cargo spacecraft undocked from the space station to begin a secondary mission.

It's been seven years since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars, but the robot geologist is still tackling big questions about Red Planet rocks.

The Day 1 issue, published Aug. 6, features coverage of OneWeb, Arianespace, SpaceX, HawkEye 360, LeoLabs, Kubos, Ruag Space, Momentus, Blue Canyon Technologies, Capella Space and more. SpaceNews.com

HawkEye 360, a company building a constellation of radio frequency data satellites, raised $70 million in Series B financing, the Herndon, Virginia, company announced Aug. 6 at the Small Satellite Conference here. SpaceN...

The University Würzburg announced at the Small Satellite Conference that onboard electric thrusters changed the attitude of a cubesat, a first for a satellite of this size. SpaceNews.com

An ancient star in the Milky Way holds traces of another star that was among the oldest in the universe.

Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by 'tuning in' to the radio waves that they emit.

Media are invited to a behind-the-scenes look at the second phase of a major field campaign to study the impacts of U.S. wildfires and agricultural fires on air quality and climate.

The smallsat market, still rife with uncertainty, is at the beginning of an explosive growth cycle as large scale, expensive constellations face their initial launch. SpaceNews.com

For the last two decades, India and China have been engaged in an undeclared space race marked more by regional rivalry than neighborly competition. But that doesn't mean the two nations shouldn't give space cooperation ...

The three architects of supergravity are getting some high-profile recognition, more than four decades after they developed the influential theory.

Spaceflight announced Aug. 6 that it will purchase the first commercial launch a new Indian vehicle scheduled to make its debut later this year. SpaceNews.com

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: The International Space Station transiting the Sun

During the course of a deep space mission, astronauts are routinely in various degrees of peril. Depending on which Hollywood sci-fi thrillers you choose, these intrepid explorers are at the mercy of malicious aliens, ps...

Capella Space, a company building a constellation of radar satellites, announced an agreement Aug. 5 to rely on Addvalue's Inter-Satellite Data Relay System and Inmarsat satellites to speed up satellite tasking. SpaceNew...