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A pair of researchers, one with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, the other with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CIT, has found a way to estimate how long it will take already launched space vehicles to arrive at ...

It is back to work for the six-member Expedition 61 crew from the U.S., Russia and Italy after celebrating Christmas aboard the International Space Station....

A black hole was photographed, the farthest flyby was completed, and a beloved rover was proclaimed dead. Follow us through the highs and lows of 2019 space science.

China is clear to embark on ambitious exploration and space station missions following a successful return-to-flight Friday of the Long March 5. SpaceNews.com

From a world with three suns in its sky to lots of possibly habitable real estate, the past year has seen some incredible exoplanet discoveries. Here are 10 of the most memorable.

Have you noticed that Orion the Hunter--one of the most iconic and familiar of the wintertime constellations--is looking a little... different as of late? The culprit is its upper shoulder star Alpha Orionis, aka Betelge...

The eighth episode of the "Star Wars" live action series "The Mandalorian" is an entertaining conclusion to the first season on Disney Plus.

The U.S. Mint's mission to commemorate the first moon landing has reached its end. Sale of the 2019 Apollo 11 50th Anniversary coins is closing on Friday, Dec. 27.

Researchers found a new way of using lasers to find space junk in a way similar to how bats use echolocation to track their prey.

For most people, the term "spaceport" conjures up visions of launch pads and gantries, with rockets taking off vertically. But for some, spaceports are becoming a place where businesses, rather than rockets, take off. Sp...

China Friday launched one of the world's most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020.

China's biggest rocket, the Long March 5, returned to flight for the first time since a 2017 failure Friday (Dec. 27) in a dazzling nighttime launch for the Chinese space program.

On Saturday evening (Dec. 28), a lovely crescent moon will join Venus in the twilight sky, making for an eye-catching post-Christmas celestial ornament.

A new tool provides detailed, 3-D chemical view of exploded star systems --

China said Friday its Beidou Navigation Satellite System that emulates the U.S. Global Positioning System will be competed with the launch of its final two satellites in the first half of next year.

(University of Reading) Scientists conducted the first ever study to identify how the four main winter weather patterns in the US and Canada behave depending on the strength of the stratospheric polar vortex. They found ...

Boeing said it has developed a new variant of its commercial 702 satellite for WGS-11 SpaceNews.com