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The Fort Collins, Colorado-based startup has expanded its telescope network with new sites SpaceNews.com

Brig. Gen. Schiess said the launch will be carried out with a lean crew and social distancing measures. SpaceNews.com

The manufacturer of Russia's workhorse Soyuz-2 rocket said it has paused production to keep factory workers safe during the coronavirus pandemic. SpaceNews.com

The new 33,514 square foot facility in Colorado triples the company's capacity for satellite production. SpaceNews.com

The contract is for three dedicated launches to deliver 44 small satellites to low Earth orbit. SpaceNews.com

It was 50 years ago Monday (April 13) that the Apollo 13 crew famously told NASA: "Houston, we've had a problem." You can celebrate the "successful failure" with a NASA documentary and more.

Fred Haise is an ex-NASA astronaut most famous for his role as the lunar module pilot on the nearly-disastrous Apollo 13 mission.

With the launch period of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14 weeks, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the past week, the assembly, test and launch ope...

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia....

NASA satellite data revealed significant reductions in air pollution over the major metropolitan areas of the Northeast United States as people reduce travel during the coronavirus outbreak.

Despite more than 100 telescope closures in recent weeks, key asteroid detection efforts remain online. Their task is harder now, and it's unclear how long they can keep observing.

As the world observes the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22, NASA is highlighting the agency's many contributions to sustaining and improving our home planet's environment with a week of online events,...

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, along with Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos joined Expedition 62 Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica M...

This Saturday (April 11), 50 years after Apollo 13 launched to the moon, you can celebrate human spaceflight with a Yuri's Night livestream event.

A Mercury-bound spacecraft swooped past Earth on Friday, tweaking its roundabout path to the solar system's smallest and innermost planet.

A spacecraft bound for Mercury beamed home stunning views of Earth during a crucial flyby conducted early today (April 10).

High-mass stars, which are eight or more times the mass of our Sun, live hard and die young. They often end their short lives in violent explosions called supernovas, but their births are much more of a mystery. They for...

In August, a robotic spacecraft will make NASA's first-ever attempt to descend to the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample, and ultimately bring it safely back to Earth. In order to achieve this challenging feat, the...

In 2017, an international team of astronomers announced a momentous discovery. Based on years of observations, they found that the TRAPPIST-1 system (an M-type red dwarf located 40 light-years from Earth) contained no le...

Week in images: 6-10 April 2020 Discover our week through the lens

Future exploration of the Moon and beyond will require tools of all shapes and sizes--from sweeping orbiters to the tiniest of rovers. In addition to current planned scientific rovers like the Volatiles Investigating Pol...

Future technologies that could enable quicker trips to Mars and robotic exploration of ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program, which invests in early-stage technology...