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Estimating the amount of seasonal snow is important for understanding the water cycle and Earth's climate system, but establishing a clear and coherent picture of change has proven difficult. New research from ESA's Clim...

Crew Dragon has arrived at Launch Pad 39A ahead of next week's launch.

NASA is inviting the public to help celebrate a historic milestone in human spaceflight as it prepares for #LaunchAmerica - the first flight into orbit of American astronauts on American rockets from American soil since ...

Space Force will have a field command focused on acquisition that will bring together several existing organizations SpaceNews.com

Satellite imaging companies are embracing long-awaited reforms to commercial remote sensing regulations, although one member of Congress doesn't think the changes go far enough. SpaceNews.com

Satellites are keeping a careful watch on Typhoon Amphan during and after landfall near eastern India and Bangladesh Wednesday (May 20).

President Donald Trump may watch SpaceX's first astronaut launch for NASA in person on May 27.

SDA wants information on "potential launch solutions" for its first 30 satellites to be deployed in low Earth orbit. SpaceNews.com

As the "evening star" Venus begins to retreat from the evening sky, the tiny planet Mercury prepares to put on a show.

The dramatic fall in atmospheric pressure on Pluto is much larger than astronomers expected

Carrying four tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiment hardware for the Expedition 63 crew aboard the International Space Station, HTV-9 launched from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan on Wednesday, M...

Planet formation is a notoriously difficult thing to observe. Nascent planets are ensconced inside dusty wombs that resist our best observation efforts. But recently, astronomers have made progress in imaging these plane...

Bruno Carvalho, D-Orbit's vice president of business development, said the company hopes to launch one of its InOrbit Now (ION) propulsive cubesat deployers every two to three months after proving out the system and lini...

Today (May 21), former NASA astronauts Mike Massimino and Garrett Reisman will go live to chat about SpaceX's upcoming historic launch.

For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil. And for the first time in the history of human spaceflight, a private company is running ...

The pioneering astronomer and ‘mother of Hubble’ paved the way for revolutionary space observatories --

Preparations for the launch of a SpaceX commercial crew test flight with two NASA astronauts on board are continuing despite the unexpected departure of the head of the agency's overall human spaceflight program. SpaceNe...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The Artemis Accords could ensure a peaceful and prosperous future for lunar exploration—if everyone agrees to them --

We often think of asteroids and comets as distinct types of small bodies, but astronomers have discovered an increasing number of "crossovers." These objects initially appear to be asteroids, and later develop activity, ...

Over the past two decades, astronomers have concluded that most, if not all, galaxies host massive black holes at their centers--and the masses of a black hole and its host galaxy are correlated. But how are the two conn...

NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer, who paved the way for space...