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Europe's Vega light-lift rocket is back to normal operations at Europe's Spaceport and is scheduled for two more missions this year. So how did Vega reach this success after an anomaly halted all Vega launches?

This selection of images of different kinds of light from various missions and telescopes have been combined to better understand the universe....

The International Space Station was orbiting above North America when an Expedition 63 crew member, looking from northeast to southwest, photographed the Rocky Mountains running from Canada and into the United States....

A prototype of Organic Processor Assembly (OPA) - technology capable of treating mixed organic wastes - arrives at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 19,...

Rocket Lab announced Sept. 3 that it has placed its first Photon satellite into orbit, demonstrating the spacecraft's technologies and the company's ability to provide end-to-end space solutions. SpaceNews

SpaceX has nailed the hop test once again and the Starship is on its way toward making high-altitude flights and trips to space! The post SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Nails Another Hop Test! Bring on Orbital Flights! ap...

China launched an experimental spacecraft into orbit on Friday (Sept. 4), with few details about what the spacecraft will do.

Looking for a science project to do with kids? These experiments go beyond the trivial and incorporate real-world scientific research.

The three-person Expedition 63 crew focused its attention today on Japanese science hardware and Russian cardiac studies....

NASA has selected CBF Partners Joint Venture of Reston, Virginia, to provide secretarial and administrative support to all levels of offices and organizations at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississipp...

NASA's Science Mission Directorate will hold a community town hall meeting with Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen and his leadership team at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 10, to discuss updates to NASA's...

For black holes, a collision doesn't have to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, new research suggests.

The White House released a new space policy directive Sept. 4 intended to improve cybersecurity of space systems. SpaceNews

Every once in a while, something will appear in the sky that will attract the attention of even those who normally don't bother looking up.

In a show that is primarily set aboard a fictional spacecraft flying through simulated space, there is a scene in the new Netflix Mars mission series, "Away," that looks particularly close to the real thing -- and that i...

The new space series "Away," which highlights the emotional (and often life-threatening) struggles that the first humans embarking on a trip to Mars may face, launches on Netflix today (Sept. 4).

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Video: 00:06:49 Comets are small objects of loosely packed ice and dust. Sometimes oddly shaped, they can tell us much about the formation of our Solar System. Cometary scientist Charlotte Götz discusses comets, their f...

NASA's highly anticipated mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa needs a rocket -- and soon, the project's planners say.

A new documentary series titled "Venus: Death of a Planet / Cloud Cities of Venus" explores the possibility of life on Venus -- and how humans could one day terraform Earth's "twin."

In many ways, Venus shows us an Earth that could have been; the twin that grew up in a different environment.

The absolute model age (AMA), or geologic age of Finsen crater on the moon's far side is determined to be about 3.5 billion years (Ga) based on crater counting method, according to a study published in Icarus.