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NASA is expected to announce awards for human lunar lander development later this month as two senators press NASA to stay the course on the use of commercial partnerships for those landers. SpaceNews.com

The first commercial satellite servicing mission has been declared a success after the Intelsat 901 (IS-901) satellite returned to work with help from Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1).

Acquisition executive Will Roper said the Air Force will consider accelerating contract awards to help suppliers stay afloat. SpaceNews.com

ManTech in 2010 received a 10-year contract for launch systems engineering and integration, and the job is now being re-competed. SpaceNews.com

In between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra lies the Sunda Strait. And in the Sunda Strait lies the much smaller island of Anak Krakatau, one of Earth’s active volcanoes. It’s erupted more than 50 times in ...

Five days before NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ended its mission on Jan. 30, 2020, scientists used the spacecraft's infrared camera to take multiple images of a region known as the California Nebula--a fitting target co...

The universe is filled with matter, and we don’t know why. We know how matter was created, and can even create matter in the lab, but there’s a catch. Every time we create matter in particle accelerators, we get an e...

NASA announced April 17 that it has set a May 27 launch date for a SpaceX commercial crew test flight that will be the first mission to launch NASA astronauts to orbit from the United States in nearly a decade. SpaceNews...

Celebrate International Dark Sky Week from anywhere, with sessions streaming online starting Sunday (April 19).

Gravity was the first force of nature to be realized, and in the centuries since we first cracked the code of that all-pervasive pulling power, scientists have continually come up with clever ways to test our understandi...

50 years ago today, on April 17, 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 came home. Safely. Successfully. The world breathed a collective sigh of relief as they watched NASA turn a disaster into one of the most dramatic happy-ending...

A SpaceX rocket will send two American astronauts to the International Space Station on May 27, NASA announced on Friday, the first crewed spaceflight from the US in nearly a decade.

Ever since Lego released spacesuit-clad minifigures in 1978, many Lego fans have been space fans and vice-versa. Now, the two fandoms have been captured in one new collectible minifigure.

SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for the first launch of American astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil in nine years. They'll fly on a Crew Dragon space capsule.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan returned to Earth Friday, along with Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos....

A 19-year-old Intelsat satellite resumed service April 2 after getting a new lease on life through Northrop Grumman's MEV-1 satellite servicer, the companies announced Friday. SpaceNews.com

Fifty years after Apollo 13, you can hear NASA's Apollo engineers discussing live what it was really like to work at the agency during one of its most hair-raising missions.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Montevideo - the capital and largest city of Uruguay....

The Soyuz spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 9:53 p.m. EDT, carrying three people back to Earth. NASA Television will air live coverage beginning at 12 a.m. Friday, April 17, for the deorbit burn...

Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping to uncover the secrets of two previously unopened samples to learn more about ancient processes on the Moon--and to refi...

A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during its first--and only--flyby of Earth on 10 April 2020, a manoeuvre needed to adjust its trajectory en route to its dest...

Meteorological conditions on Saturn's large moon Titan, the strange, distant world that may be the most Earth-like in the solar system, appear conducive to the formation of dust devils, according to new research in AGU's...