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Engineers working on NASA's Perseverance rover mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida have begun the process of placing the Mars-bound rover and other spacecraft components into the configuration they'll be in as...

On Feb. 21, 2019, we shot an asteroid.

(University of the Basque Country ) The most extensive system of haze layers ever observed in the solar system have been discovered and characterised on the planet Saturn.

China's next-generation crew capsule successfully returned to Earth today (May 8) after nearly three days in orbit.

Some €10 million is now available for proposals to use space to improve healthcare and distance learning in response to the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to the Italian national delegation to ESA. The funding has quadru...

Despite sticker shock from some quarters, Aerojet Rocketdyne says a new contract for producing engines for NASA's Space Launch System will result in cost reductions compared to the engines used on the space shuttle. Spac...

The House Armed Services Committee said the FCC's approval of Ligado's proposal disregards federal law. SpaceNews.com

A new study indicates that, contrary to what has been previously argued, galaxies like our own may be the most likely place to find intelligent life The post Galaxies Like the Milky Way are the Best for Life appeared fir...

One of the most fascinating things about planet Earth is the way that life shapes the Earth and the Earth shapes life. We only have to look back to the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) of 2.4 billion years ago to see how li...

The new documentary "Spaceship Earth" breaks the mystery of the Biosphere 2 experiment wide open, revealing the facts in a story that feels more like science fiction than reality.

A Japanese spacecraft trekking across the solar system has yet to deliver its precious cargo of space rocks, but its data is already giving scientists a preview of an asteroid's dynamic history.

Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida have begun stacking the Perseverance Mars rover and its associated hardware in the right configuration for liftoff, which will occur during a three-week window that ope...

So, you think you know Galileo? A new book out from Simon and Schuster publishing looks at the life and times of one of the most famous astronomers there ever was: Galileo Galilei. Galileo and the Science Deniers by Dr. ...

The Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument built to fly on the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 satellite is ready to ship to the spacecraft. CrIS has passed all of its readiness tests, completing its pre-sh...

In Michael Crichton's 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain, a deadly alien microbe hitches a ride to Earth aboard a downed military satellite and scientists must race to contain it. While fictional, the plot explores a very r...

Astronauts donned gloves on the International Space Station to kick off two European experiments on metals and foams, while preparing spacesuits for future work outside their home in space.

Let's start at the beginning. Before humans, before Earth, before any of the planets existed, there were baby planets--planetesimals. Coalesced from dust exploded outward by the solar nebula, these blobs of material were...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

With hundreds of satellites launched every year, in-space collisions and the creation of fast-moving fragments of space debris--or 'space junk'--are becoming increasingly likely, threatening our continued human and techn...

Many galaxies far more active than the Milky Way have enormous twin jets of radio waves extending far into intergalactic space. Normally these go in opposite directions, coming from a massive black hole at the centre of ...

SmallSat Conference Chairman Pat Patterson will join SpaceNews Editor-in-Chief Brian Berger and Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust on Tuesday, May 12, to take questions and discuss what the smallsat community can expect from...

Finland's Iceye is demonstrating for customers its ability to detect millimeter-scale vertical differences by comparing data in multiple Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite images of the same location. SpaceNews.com