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One of the chief aims of space agencies and commercial aerospace these days is reducing the associated costs of space exploration. When it comes right down to it, it is still very expensive to send rockets into orbit, ne...

WASHINGTON -- As it explores changes to its constellation orbit and spacecraft design, Kepler Communications on Oct. 7 said it nonetheless secured launch slots for its first two fully commercial satellites. Kepler will l...

When Luca Parmitano took over command of the International Space Station recently, he became responsible for a crew that was both larger and smaller than normal. Three astronauts, two cosmonauts and a pair of Playmobil t...

SpaceX has never flown a person into space in its first spacecraft, the Crew Dragon. But already Musk is showing off his big, shiny Starship -- and NASA is bristling.

By 2024, NASA will land astronauts, including the first woman and next man, on the Moon as part of the Artemis lunar exploration program. This won't be the first time NASA takes the name Artemis to the Moon though. Two r...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will tour SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Thursday, Oct. 10, to see the progress the company is making to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station fro...

Astronomers have discovered 20 more Saturn moons, boosting the ringed planet's tally of known satellites to 82 -- three more than Jupiter.

Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian have announced the discovery that, contrary to previously accepted knowledge, Type Ia supernovae experience light curve decline plateaus, and lengthy ones ...

Move over Jupiter; Saturn is the new moon king.

If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA's Curiosity rover.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may have just captured a snapshot of the Red Planet's long-ago Great Drying.

A new study of the Ovda Fluctus lava flow on Venus indicates that it is made of basaltic lava. This discovery weakens the notion that Venus might once have been Earth-like with an ancient ocean of liquid water.

The Sunrise mission is an adventure: Carried by a giant helium balloon, the unmanned observatory peers at the Sun from an altitude of more than 35 kilometers; several days of flight are followed by a parachute landing. T...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

On 6 October, 9 159 people visited ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands to meet astronauts, space scientists and engineers

Astronomers have investigated a compact binary radio pulsar system known as PSR J0453+1559, with the aim of shedding more light on its mysterious nature. The new study, published September 26 on arXiv.org, challenges pre...

Space Science Image of the Week: More than 200 children imagined diverse extra-solar worlds at ESA's Open Day

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When the team at CBS pitched Star Trek: Picard to Sir Patrick Stewart, the veteran actor's first instinct was to turn it down. Here's how it happened.

Spacecraft are great explorers, but they can be frustrating pen pals.

One of NASA's two hired rides to the moon's surface is tackling a host of milestones leading up to a July 2021 launch and looking ahead to future flights.

A NASA official discusses how the agency plans to pull off the ambitious landing plan.