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Two weeks ago, the head of NASA seemed sick of waiting for SpaceX and Boeing Co. to finish developing the capsules that are supposed to carry U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Using a machine learning technique, a team of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers constrained the radius of an exoplanet with known mass.

After successfully launching Thursday night, NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is in orbit for a first-of-its-kind mission to study a region of space where changes can disrupt communications and sa...

Alexei Leonov was the first person to leave the relative safety of his spacecraft and experience the silence of space.

From some viewpoints, Mars is kind of like a skeleton of Earth. We can see that it had volcanoes, oceans, and rivers, but the volcanoes no longer fume and the water is all gone. A new image from the ESA’s Mars Express ...

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Dust off your DeLoreans, sci-fi fans because Playmobil will launch three new sets from the "Back to the Future" films in 2020 that will have you channeling your inner Marty McFly.

Space Logistics LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, has launched a satellite that can extend the life of other satellites. The satellite is called MEV-1, or Mission Extension Vehicle-1. MEV-1 is the first of its kind....

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- NASA expects to buy at least one more Soyuz seat from Russia to provide assured access to the International Space Station should commercial crew vehicles suffer additional delays. In a media briefing ...

Peering into the unknown requires us to recognize our own mental blind spots --

Post-"The Wicked + The Divine," comic book artist McKelvie draws and writes his next project, and it's in SPACE!

A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) instrument aboard NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite will deliver unprecedented information to help scientists investigate how both terrestrial and solar weathe...

From former Swamp Thing creators Soule and Saiz.

ESA Web TV reports on our 'next space generation' Space Talk where students gave their opinion on future space activities

Khrunichev, the owner of ILS, announced Oct. 10 that Kirk Pysher was no longer president, but did not give a reason for his departure. SpaceNews.com

Our week through the lens: 07 - 11 October 2019

Legendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who became the first person to walk in space on his Voskhod-2 mission, died Friday (Oct. 11). He was 85.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, have used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high frame-rate movie of a growing black hole system at a level of detail never seen before. In t...

Space station astronauts ventured out Friday on their second spacewalk this week to swap more batteries.

Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness.

Polish scientists are developing a first-of-its-kind cubesat mission to Mars that could launch as early as 2022.