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It's some next-level skywatching: Scientists are using images captured by NASA's InSight lander to look for meteors on Mars.

It's 'almost a racing certainty' there's alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa--and Mars could be hiding primitive microorganisms, too.

There are still many details to be hashed out, and Congress has yet to sign off on personnel transfer policies. SpaceNews.com

At 9:34 p.m. EST, the hatch closed between the Soyuz spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking. NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Luca P...

A 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman made a special visit to NASA Headquarters in Washington on Wednesday (Feb. 5), the day after he was cited in President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.

SpaceX is hosting a Starship career day today (Feb. 6) at the company's facility near the South Texas village of Boca Chica, where the big spaceship is coming together.

A NASA safety panel is recommending a review of Boeing's software verification processes after revealing there was a second software problem during a CST-100 Starliner test flight that could have led to a "catastrophic" ...

We can create matter from energy in the lab. Particle accelerators do this all the time. When we do, half of what is created is matter and the other half antimatter. There is a symmetry in physics that requires matter an...

NASA has repeatedly imaged the Martian surface, and sometimes a feature appears that wasn’t there in prior images. That’s what happened when a meteorite survived the plunge through Mars’ thin atmosphere sometime be...

Intelsat, SES and other satellite operators could receive up to $14.7 billion to cover the cost of losing C-band spectrum and to expedite transitioning those airwaves to 5G cellular networks. SpaceNews.com

In the third episode of "Star Trek: Picard," Jean-Luc assembles his crew and sets off in an unregistered starship to track down the mysterious Dr. Bruce Maddox.

Steve Kitay: The creation of a U.S. Space Force is a major new development that has to be reflected in the DoD strategy. SpaceNews.com

Instead of kicking off a sustained campaign of monthly launches, OneWeb intends to take a break in April after putting up 68 satellites with the pair of launches planned for February and March. SpaceNews.com

A trio of space travelers returned to Earth this morning from the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, at 326 straight days...

Coordinated by NASA and ESA, an ambitious effort to retrieve samples from the Red Planet faces major obstacles --

Final steps are underway here at Cape Canaveral to prepare the next sun-observing spacecraft, a $1.5 billion joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, for launch.

After setting a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, along with Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscos...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch wrapped up her first stay on the International Space Station today (Feb. 6).

ALMA captured the aftermath of a scrap between two stars.

Watch the launch of ESA's new powerful Sun explorer, Solar Orbiter, on ESA Web TV on Monday 10 Februaryfrom 03:30 GMT (04:30 CET).

The fairing of the US Atlas V 411 rocket with ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft inside at the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida during launch preparations on 21 January 2020.

When a black hole chews up a star, it produces visible light or X-rays, but astronomers have almost never detected both types of radiation. Astronomer Peter Jonker (SRON / Radboud University) and his colleagues have now ...