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Two NASA astronauts finalized their preparations today, ahead of Thursday's spacewalk, to complete battery swaps on the outside of the International Space Station....

A historic Mars launch has been delayed again by troublesome weather conditions at the launch site.

If you like the smell of space, wait until you get a whiff of the moon.

Video: 00:03:28 The first images from ESA's Solar Orbiter, captured around the spacecraft's first close pass of the Sun, some 77 million kilometres from its surface, are already exceeding expectations revealing interesti...

Florida will soon reopen to launches for pole-orbiting spacecraft --

Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut down in massive galaxies. Although many theories have been proposed to explain this process, known as "quenching,...

NASA's Perseverance rover and elements of the Mars 2020 mission were recently loaded aboard the rocket that will take it to Mars! The post Perseverance Has Been Put Inside its Atlas V Rocket appeared first on Universe To...

It seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared.

The launch of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now planned for 31 October 2021.

Spacewalking astronauts completed their part of a three-year power upgrade to the International Space Station on Thursday, replacing six more outdated batteries with powerful new ones.

The Falcon 9 rocket for the Crew-1 mission, which is scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 30, reached the Sunshine State on Tuesday (July 14).

A study conducted by scientists at São Paulo State University's Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 19 asteroids of interstellar origin classified as Centaurs, o...

Exotrail, a French startup that builds electric propulsion systems and designs flight software for smallsats, has raised 11 million euros ($13 million) from investors, the company announced July 16. SpaceNews

Just. Wow. If you're like us, your space-feed has been inundated with some pretty spectacular images of Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE as of late. F3 NEOWISE broke from the pack of good binocular comets for 2020 early this mont...

NASA now is targeting Oct. 31, 2021, for the launch of the agency's James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, due to impacts from the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as technical challenges.

Every 26 months, the orbits of both Earth and Mars conspire to make travel between the two planets shorter. Launching in one of these windows means the travel time can be reduced to only six months. Our robotic missions ...

New data released today by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile indicate our universe is around 13.8 billion years old, matching the measurements made by the Planck satellite in 2015, and calling into question ...

HawkEye 360 completed environmental testing of three satellites scheduled to launch in December on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission. SpaceNews

The 2,410 airmen selected to transfer are all from space operations career fields. SpaceNews

Close-up reveals a surface dancing with ‘campfires’ --

NASA's inspector general criticized the agency for its accounting of Orion program costs in a new report, arguing it has "hindered the overall transparency" of the program amid growing costs and schedule slips. SpaceNews

Take a look at some of the best and worst Red Planet landings of all time.