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Kerbal Space Program 2 has been announced with new features, new planets and, perhaps most surprisingly of all, a new developer.

Media are invited to accompany NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, U.S. Senator Rob Portman and U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio Wednesday, Aug. 21, as they visit the agency's Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Clevel...

The National Space Council (NSC) will convene for the sixth time Tuesday morning (Aug. 20), and you can watch the proceedings live.

NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the sixth meeting of the National Space Council at 9:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 20, from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udv...

Vulcan scores two new customers as ULA begins factory upgrades in preparation for the transition to Vulcan production. SpaceNews.com

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The private Smart Dragon-1 rocket, built by the China Rocket Co. Ltd., completed its first mission Saturday (Aug. 17), successfully launching three small satellites to Earth orbit, Chinese media outlets reported.

It's time to talk about Apophis again, I guess. Please calm down first.

A second planet has been discovered circling Beta Pictoris, a fledgling star in our own galaxy offering astronomers a rare glimpse of a planetary system in the making, according to a study published Monday.

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me at the CosmoQuest blog.

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched a new communications satellite into orbit today (Aug. 19) -- but there appears to be a problem with the satellite.

Rocket Lab's Electron mission dubbed "Look Ma, No Hands" blasted off smoothly today from a pad in mountainous New Zealand, funny name and all.

The first astronauts assigned to launch on Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft now have a mission patch to represent their flight.

If confirmed, the detection could be the first of its kind and would open new vistas on Einstein’s general theory of relativity and the physics of extreme matter --

A new case study demonstrates the steps being taken by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) to make it easier for small businesses and entrepreneurs to understand its needs and do business with it. The d...

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Three NASA astronauts remain focused on preparations for next week's spacewalk at the International Space Station. The rest of the Expedition 60 focused on biology research and a pair of docked spaceships....

After 16 years of dedicated planning and engineering, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have completed a 3.2 gigapixel sensor array for the camera that will be used in the...

A rocky world devoid of atmosphere arouses debate over the habitability of the Milky Way’s most common star systems --

Viasat selected Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to design and manufacture a cubesat for a U.S. Air Force test of a military communications terminal in low Earth orbit. SpaceNews.com

The International Space Station was again the stage for novel European science and routine operations during the first half of August. Plenty of action in the form of bubbles and sounds added to the mix in the run-up to ...

Using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope, astronomers have identified eight new repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources. The finding, reported in a paper published August 9 on arXiv.org...