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Liftoff is scheduled for 12:10 a.m. EDT (0410 GMT) on Sunday (Sept. 27).

As International Observe the Moon Night goes virtual this year, NASA is inviting the public to join a live celebration online.

In anticipation of this upcoming mission, NASA has released a stunning poster for the Europa Clipper mission! The post NASA Releases a New Poster for the Europa Clipper Mission appeared first on Universe Today.

Yesterday, we posted some incredible photos from the Juno Probe's 29th flyby of Jupiter. Juno is in a highly elliptical orbit. It buzzes the planet at an altitude of 4,200km and then sweeps out to 8.1 million. Completing...

The European Space Agency launched the Gaia mission in 2013. The mission’s overall goal was to discover the history of the Milky Way by mapping out the positions and velocities of one billion stars. The result is kind ...

Most of these interstellar spacecraft carry messages intended to introduce ourselves to any aliens that find them along the way.

Italy is the latest country to sign an agreement to cooperate with NASA on the Artemis human lunar exploration program, although the details of Italy's participation have yet to be worked out. SpaceNews

SpaceX just signed a contract modification with the U.S. Space Force that allows two upcoming GPS satellite launches to use Falcon 9 rockets with preflown first stages -- a first for national-security missions.

If phosphine detected on the planet next door is really a signature of alien biology, we can send a space probe to find out --

One of the largest hurdles is coming up with a set of legal rules for governing behavior in outer space. The issue of celestial property rights is tricky. SpaceNews

HyImpulse completed the first hot-fire test of the company's 16,800-pounds-force hybrid rocket motor on Sept. 15. Credit: HyImpulse SpaceNews