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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission to asteroid Ryugu has reached one of its final milestones, if not its climax. The sample-return spacecraft has launched the Minerva-II2 rover at the asteroid. This is the last of four rovers ...

Intuitive Machines, a company with a NASA contract to fly payloads to the moon in 2021, announced Oct. 2 it has signed a contract with SpaceX for the launch of its lunar lander. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

More than six months after canceling what would have been the first spacewalk conducted by a team of two all women, NASA has rescheduled the historic moment for Oct. 21.

This spring, scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole -- but what they really want is to create a movie of a black hole.

An instrument on NASA's InSight lander has been stuck in the Martian soil for months, but engineers have come up with a new plan to try to save the device.

NASA is gearing up for a marathon of spacewalks, and one of them could be the first spacewalk to be conducted entirely by women.

Increasingly, space industry and government officials suggest the guidelines, adopted in 2002, no longer make sense in light of plans for constellations comprised of hundreds or thousands of satellites. SpaceNews.com

An international team of astronomers recently obtained spectra from the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, which confirmed the presence of cyanide gas. The post Astronomers Find Cyanide Gas in Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov,...

Billy Dee Williams shared his thoughts about human spaceflight with Space.com at New York Comic Con 2019.

Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stopped by the University of North Dakota on Sept. 4 to check out its spacesuits and possibly, recruit help for his looming moon deadline.

Check out these photos of some of the most incredible space costumes at New York Comic Con 2019.

Cailabs, a Rennes, France-based company founded in 2013, says it has developed a technology that controls the shape of light within optical fibers, enabling a thousandfold increase in data speeds. SpaceNews.com

There are many reasons NASA is pursuing the Artemis mission to land astronauts on the moon by 2024: It's a crucial way to study the moon itself and to pave a safe path to Mars. But it's also a great place to learn more a...

Our week through the lens: 28 September - 04 October 2019

According to the most widely accepted cosmological models, the first galaxies began to form between 13 and 14 billion years ago. Over the course of the next billion years, the cosmic structures now observed first emerged...

After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe--galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium--about half of it is still missing. So not only is 85% of the matter in th...

The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

"Lucy in the Sky" is a fictional story of an astronaut coping with a return to Earth, apparently inspired by a real-life event.

Three women who were essential to the moon landing and NASA's Apollo program as a whole chatted with Space.com about discrimination, engineering and our future on Mars.