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The United States is the dominant space power and the "gains we possess are being threatened," said Defense Secretary Mark Esper SpaceNews

NASA has just released an informative video that lets potential interstellar travellers know what they're in for! The post NASA’s New Video Shows You What it’s Like Traveling Close to the Speed of Light appeared firs...

The three Expedition 63 crew members living aboard the International Space Station will spend the weekend inside the orbiting lab's Russian segment....

India's Chandrayaan-2 mission has finished one year and 4,400 orbits around the moon -- and the spacecraft is just getting started, officials said in a press release.

You can see the moon's famous Copernicus crater along the lunar terminator -- the line lunar between day and night -- on Thursday (Aug. 27).

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to issue a Request for Information in September to learn what type of data companies plan to collect via satellite. SpaceNews

A new study led by researchers from the JHUAPL indicates that future missions to the Moon could contaminate the lunar environment with their exhaust. The post Lunar Landings Will Make it Harder to Study the Moon’s Ice ...

SpaceX has raised over $1.9 billion in new funding this month, representing the largest single fundraising round to date.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky's latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. The new images of the comet were taken on 8 ...

When it comes to places with the potential for habitability, Venus isn't usually considered on that list. The hot, greenhouse-effect-gone-mad neighboring planet with a crushing surface pressure and sulfuric acid clouds c...

Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light. But they can also emit matter in the form of plas...

California is on fire, with more than 360 individual blazes scorching across the state.

An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets--planets that float in space without orbiting a sun--than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.

Giant elliptical galaxies, the oldest known large galactic structures in the universe, have no spiral arms and little or no current star formation activity, but their central supermassive black holes are often active gal...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spectacular galaxy NGC 2442, nicknamed the Meathook galaxy owing to its extremely asymmetrical and irregular shape.

Week in images: 17-21 August 2020 Discover our week through the lens

So, you've just put the finishing touches on upgrades to your spaceship, and now it can fly at almost the speed of light. We're not quite sure how you pulled it off, but congratulations!

Optical communications, transmitting data using infrared lasers, has the potential to help NASA return more data to Earth than ever. The benefits of this technology to exploration and Earth science missions are huge. In ...

Can humanity mine water ice at the moon's poles without compromising these regions' great scientific potential?

Scientists have bolstered Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity by exploring the strange mysteries of white dwarf stars. 

China has built a testing ground for its first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, which launched to the Red Planet in July and aims to land a rover on the surface in April 2021.

China has developed a vision for an international lunar research station and is seeking international involvement in the project. SpaceNews