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Raymond: "It's no longer good enough just to have a satellite that can survive launch and can survive initial operations. You have to have a satellite that is defendable." SpaceNews.com

Russia is testing a gun that returning cosmonauts could use to fend off wild animals when landing in remote areas, the head of the Russian space agency said Wednesday.

Remember the asteroid Psyche? It’s the largest known asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It’s been in the news because of its unusual properties, and because NASA plans to launch a mission to Psyc...

Thompson: A major concern is a misconception that the Space Force will set national space policy. SpaceNews.com

A top NASA manager cast doubt Wednesday on the space agency's ability to land astronauts on the moon by 2024.

Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and brightnesses, ranging from humdrum ordinary galaxies to luminous active galaxies. While an ordinary galaxy is visible mainly because of the light from its stars, an ac...

NASA's effort to build and deploy a small space station in orbit around the moon now has its own logo.

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Xenesis, a laser communications startup, plans to conduct a space-based demonstration of its Xen-Hub Optical Communications terminal in 2021 on Bartolomeo, the Airbus Defense and Space external research platform on the I...

Consider the possibility that an asteroid may have transformed the picture of life on Earth -- but forget the dinosaurs and the massive crater, and rewind an extra 400 million years.

By 2024, NASA plans to land the next two people on the moon, including the first woman who will ever walk on the lunar surface.

ESA needs to succeed with two upcoming parachute tests or will see the ExoMars 2020 landing mission slip to 2022. SpaceNews.com

Inmarsat's acquisition by Bidco passed a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States SpaceNews.com

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has reportedly failed to spot India's Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander, which apparently crashed during its Sept. 6 touchdown attempt.

What might it take to feed a million people on Mars? Lab-grown meat, tunnel-grown crops and cricket farms, a new study finds.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Scientists analyzing the treasure trove of images taken by ESA's Rosetta mission have turned up more evidence for curious bouncing boulders and dramatic cliff collapses.

The six residents aboard the International Space Station continued more biomedical science and rodent research to improve human health on Earth and in space. The Expedition 60 crew is also gearing up for a crew swap begi...

Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, German astronomers have detected a new open cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. The newly found cluster, designated Gaia 8, consists of about 100 stars, most likely including the Beta L...

NASA Glenn Research Center:

When 'Oumuamua passed through our solar system two years ago, it set off a flurry of excitement in the astronomical community. Here was the first-ever interstellar object that be observed by human trackers, and the myste...

Today (Sept. 18) a unique airborne space observatory will perform its first scientific flight over Europe.