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The car-sized Perseverance rover is set to launch toward Mars Thursday (July 30) during a two-hour window that opens at 7:50 a.m. EDT. Watch it live here.

A mysteriously long, thin cloud has again appeared over the 20-km-high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars.

Spanish startup Sateliot on July 28 selected Open Cosmos to build and operate a constellation of up to 100 small satellites, but stopped short of a firm contract for the full system. SpaceNews

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on July 30 approved Amazon's request to operate a constellation of roughly 3,200 internet satellites in low Earth orbit. SpaceNews

A point of contention is the Air Force proposing "incremental" funding for space systems like satellites SpaceNews

The Expedition 63 crew checked out SpaceX Crew Dragon suits today and stayed busy with a full slate of space research....

Satellite engineers know what every photographer knows: get close to your subject to get better pictures. Not just visible light pictures, but all across the spectrum. The lower altitude also improves things like radar, ...

Intelsat has agreed to help market half the capacity on an upcoming Eutelsat satellite designed mainly for government customers, the companies announced July 30. SpaceNews

At the heart of every white dwarf star--the dense stellar object that remains after a star has burned away its fuel reserve of gases as it nears the end of its life cycle--lies a quantum conundrum: as white dwarfs add ma...

The liftoff of NASA's Perseverance rover sparked the launch of a new collectible in celebration of the Mars 2020 mission.

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will address their upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon departure and splashdown in a news conference at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, July 31, from the International Space Station.

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover entered "safe mode" after a successful launch Thursday (July 30), but should recover, NASA says.

DARPA acting director Highnam said the agency sees no need to demonstrate launch capabilities that are now available from commercial providers. SpaceNews

The actor who played astronaut Captain Kirk on "Star Trek" hinted during an online San Diego Comic-Con panel that he may be interested in going to space.

Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A. Based on observations of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and a theoretical follow-up st...

Resembling a butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colors, and intricate patterns, this striking bubble of gas--known as NGC 2899--appears to float and flutter across the sky in this new picture from ESO's ...

China's Chang'e 4 moon lander and rover have concluded their science tasks for a 20th lunar day on the far side of the moon.

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is now successfully on its journey to Mars, launching from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 am EDT (1150 GMT). Just minutes before the Atlas 5 rocket...

Perseverance will stow away rocks for eventual delivery to Earth, and will listen for Martian sounds for the first time --

Mars seems so far away, even though it's been close to people for so long.

The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built--a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers--blasted off for the red planet Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bri...

Astronomers recently spotted a rare type of supernova explosion that was accompanied by a massive flare of ultraviolet radiation. Untangling the mystery of the UV flash could help unravel the mysterious nature of these s...