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The Orion spacecraft that will fly on the Artemis 1 mission around the Moon has returned to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, after finishing space environment tests. The spacecraft, including ESA's European S...

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Mekong Delta - a major rice-producing region in southwest Vietnam.

Denman Glacier in East Antarctica retreated 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) from 1996 to 2018, according to a new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine....

Astronomers like observing distant young stars as they form. Stars are born out of a molecular cloud, and once enough of the matter in that cloud clumps together, fusion ignites and a star begins its life. The leftover m...

The "evening star" Venus will meet up with the waxing, crescent moon in the night sky this weekend. You can spot the celestial pair above the western horizon after sunset.

Cardiac research and 3D bioprinting aboard the International Space Station today are helping NASA improve health for humans in space and on Earth....

As we all search for things to do while stuck in our homes, know that Disney Plus has many, many hours of content for space nerds to enjoy.

A new study shows how the presence of a cloud layer could make it harder for the James Webb Space Telescope to detect water on exoplanets. The post How Will Clouds Obscure the View of Exoplanet Surfaces? appeared first o...

Satellite internet startup OneWeb filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday after its largest investor, Softbank, rejected a request for additional funding. SpaceNews.com

The concluding part of the "Star Trek: Picard" season finale is going to polarize 'Star Trek' fans for a long time to come. But as a piece of writing for television, it falls short.

The $1.4 billion AEHF-6 military communications satellite took flight on Thursday (March 26) despite the coronavirus pandemic because it's essential to national security, U.S. military officials said.

NASA announced March 27 it has selected SpaceX to provide cargo transportation services for the agency's planned lunar Gateway. SpaceNews.com

Astronauts at the International Space Station are sharing positivity and stunning images of our home planet from their temporary home in orbit.

The collision helped seed Earth with its precious metals --

Every second of every day, our sun spits out a stream of tiny high-energy particles, known as the solar wind. This wind blows throughout the solar system, extending far beyond the orbits of the planets and out into inter...

The U.S. Army Satellite Operations Brigade is increasing WGS satcom capacity to the hospital ship. SpaceNews.com

With the coronavirus pandemic limiting options for personnel to gather in mission control centers to operate spacecraft, some companies are turning to virtual approaches to maintain their spacecraft. SpaceNews.com

NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other supplies to the agency's Gateway in lunar orb...

Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The team found that the disruption is ca...

Planetary defense researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) continue to validate their ability to accurately simulate how they might deflect an Earth-bound asteroid in a study that will be published in...

Video: 00:00:00 Asteroid Day and the European Space Agency connected Europe and the world with astronauts, scientists and performers bringing a message of hope and support for those facing the global Coronavirus crisis. ...

U.S. fears that China could set up a moon base for spying do not line up with the country's statements about its space program, according to security experts.