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The Expedition 62 crew is continuing its human research activities midweek aboard the International Space Station....

The Curiosity rover on Mars has captured the most detailed panoramic image ever taken of the Red Planet's surface. The image is made from over 1,000 images, containing 1.8 billion pixels of the Martian landscape, with 2....

The Canadian Space Agency recently awarded contracts to a series of companies to develop technologies and tools to aid in the coming era of lunar exploration. The post Beyond Robotic Arms. Canada Funds Technology for Spa...

Axiom, a start-up based in Houston, Texas, and SpaceX have agreed to work together to fly three private astronauts along with a fourth mission commander to the International Space Station.

NASA's next Mars rover has a new name -- Perseverance....

Soon, astronomers and astrophysicists will have more observing power than they know what to do with. Not only will the James Webb Space Telescope one day, sometime in the next couple years, we hope, if all goes well, and...

Concerns about the coronavirus outbreak have resulted in some cancellations and restrictions in the space industry, but many events will continue as planned.

NASA's next Mars rover -- a life-hunting, sample-caching robot scheduled to launch this summer -- is officially called Perseverance, agency officials announced today (March 5).

Axiom Space, a company with ambitions to develop a private space station, announced March 5 that it has signed a contract with SpaceX for a commercial Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

In his Feb. 3 SpaceNews opinion piece, Louis Friedman argues that the NASA authorization bill that recently cleared a House space subcommittee is best direction for America in space. The bill, H.R. 5666, would require th...

NASA's next Mars rover has a new name - Perseverance.

NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 10 a.m. EDT Monday, March 9, to discuss an international collaboration aimed at improving our understanding of air quality.

Astronomers have recently raised concerns about the impact of satellite mega-constellations on scientific research. To better understand the effect these constellations could have on astronomical observations, ESO commis...

MinoSpace has secured new series A round funding which the Beijing-based private satellite company will use to develop larger satellite platforms. SpaceNews.com

Researchers think that a newly identified subatomic particle may have formed the universe's dark matter right after the Big Bang, approximately 13.8 billion years ago.

Capella Space announced a contract March 5 to send a Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite into a mid-inclination orbit later this year on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle. SpaceNews.com

AST & Science's immediate focus is starting revenue generation in the next few years with low Earth orbit satellites numbering in the "low twenties" in an equatorial orbit. SpaceNews.com

To help answer one of the great existential questions--how did life begin?--a new study combines biological and cosmological models. Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy looked at how life's buildin...

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured the very moment when an old star first starts to alter its environment. The star has ejected high-speed bipolar ...

NASA's first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft execute...

Starting in early March, NASA's Voyager 2 will quietly coast through interstellar space without receiving commands from Earth. That's because the Voyager's primary means of communication, the Deep Space Network's 70-mete...

Using the 6-meter telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS), astronomers have conducted a detailed study of the central part of the galaxy Mkn 938. Results of the res...