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Arianespace plans to send a satellite-servicing vehicle -- along with two satellites -- into space on Friday (July 31). You can watch the festivities live from French Guiana.

Quasars are the most powerful sources of light in the universe, but sometimes they’re hard to find. A team of astronomers used the Chandra X-ray Space Telescope to find some diamonds in the rough. When gas finds itself...

The Air Force said the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 has passed a critical design review. SpaceNews

Image: The many colourful curves and folds of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia are featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

This long-exposure photograph from the International Space Station was taken during an orbital night period and reveals the Milky Way glittering above a bright but exaggerated atmospheric glow blanketing the Earth's hori...

Resembling a butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colours, 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 E...

Proton lifted off at 5:25 p.m. Eastern from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on an 18-hour mission to deploy the geostationary satellites, according to Roscosmos. SpaceNews

Two Flight Engineers and the Expedition 63 Commander, all from NASA, will talk to journalists Friday morning before the SpaceX Crew Dragon completes its stay at the International Space Station....

Should psychologists be more comfortable discussing causality?

There's always more than one way to look at the world.  There's also more than one way to look at a galaxy.  And sometimes combining those ways of looking can result in something truly special. That is what happened re...

Neowise is the first bright comet to be visible with the naked eye from the northern hemisphere since the mid-1990s.

Scientists may one day be able to predict dangerous solar flares just one day in advance using a new solar outburst model, a new study finds.

Rocket Lab said July 31 an investigation concluded that an "anomalous electrical connection" caused the failure of an Electron rocket launch nearly four weeks earlier, as the company makes plans to return to flight. Spac...

After a busy two months in space, the first two NASA astronauts to visit the space station aboard a commercial vehicle are ready to come back to Earth -- if the weather cooperates.

You can breathe easy now: All is officially well with NASA's newly launched Mars rover Perseverance.

Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center of the universe in t...

Xtar, a company that provides satellite communications services to the U.S. government, has sold its only satellite to Hisdesat, one of its shareholders. SpaceNews

No matter where you are, where you've been and where you're going, it's always good to see home.  And we all love seeing pictures of our home planet, as seen from space. The latest image of the Terran System comes from ...

Solar flares--violent explosions on the surface of the sun--can send blasts of radiation hurtling toward Earth. While the planet's magnetic field protects humans on the surface, powerful solar flares can disable satellit...

Humanity's first interplanetary sample-return campaign is now underway.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's Mars helicopter, called Ingenuity, is hitching a ride to the Red Planet with the agency's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.