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The date is finally set for OSIRIS-REx’s sampling maneuver. The spacecraft has been at asteroid Bennu since the end of December 2018. During that time, it’s found a few surprises, and mapped the surface in great deta...

SpaceX is about to make history. See Space.com's complete coverage of the company's crewed Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station, which launches on May 27.

NASA is ready to virtually host thousands of excited people for America's first launch of astronauts from United States soil to orbit since 2011.

We’ve found thousands and thousands of exoplanets now. And spacecraft like TESS will likely find thousands and thousands more of them. But most exoplanets are gassy giants, molten hell-holes, or frozen wastes. How can ...

SpaceX remains on target to launch its landmark Demo-2 mission to the space station this week, NASA officials said.

Here's a summary of Bob Behnken's career.

The International Space Station will welcome a pair of different spaceships next week. Japan's space freighter will arrive first on Monday followed by the first crewed mission from SpaceX on Thursday....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of Chile's Atacama Desert, which is bound on the west by the Pacific and on the east by the Andes....

The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX's brand new rocketship are classmates and friends, veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of young sons.

As the first NASA astronauts set to launch from American soil in almost a decade, they are laying the foundation for the pre-flight traditions that U.S. commercial spacecraft crews will follow.

Join us the day after NASA's Demo-2 commercial crew mission, scheduled to launch May 27, for a SpaceNews Live discussion with Maj. Gen. John Shaw, the two-star general responsible for ensuring the renowned 45th Operation...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), installed on an Arizona mountaintop, was quickly moving through its testing stages and making headway toward the start of its 5-year observing run as project participants ...

What if we could take a picture of an Earth-like planet around another star that was sharp enough to see continents, oceans, and clouds?

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*. The team interpreted these blinks to be ...

On February 19, 2019, the U.S. Space Force (USSF) was officially created with the signing of Space Policy Directive-4. This effectively broke it off from the U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSC) and made it into the sixth...

Week in images: 18-22 May 2020 Discover our week through the lens

Many space companies began working with their banks to apply as soon as PPP was unveiled in March, but were frustrated when the initial tranche of $320 million was committed in less than two weeks. SpaceNews.com

The North Pole ain’t what it used to be. Well, the geographic North Pole stays fixed over time (mostly because we define it to stay fixed over time) but the magnetic north pole constantly moves. And over the past decad...

A new breed of spaceship requires a new breed of spacesuits.

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has revealed tantalizing details about Mars' seismic activity for the very first time.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Video: 00:05:43 Cold, dark, remote, Antarctica is as close to space as you can get on Earth. Humans conduct research in Antarctic bases on a wide range of topics, from climate studies and astronomy to glaciology and huma...