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A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S., Canada and Italy has found that studying the craters on asteroid Bennu allowed them to calculate how long it has been orbiting near Earth. In thei...

When humans return to the moon, they'll have formidable challenge lying in wait: lunar dust. The talcum-like lunar regolith is considered the biggest operational problem facing moon colonists. Within a few days of dust e...

The Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30, has now traveled 146 million miles (235 million kilometers) in deep space -- half of the total required to reach the Red Planet.

The spread of the fire was visible from space.

The Federal Communications Commission approved the sale of OneWeb to the British government and Bharti Global Oct. 27, as rival SpaceX started a public beta test of its Starlink system. SpaceNews

The Aerospace Corp. is calling for U.S. government agencies to work together to develop space solar power technologies in a paper that underscores the importance of collaborating with international partners. SpaceNews

The satellites lifted off today (Oct. 28) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which launched from the company's New Zealand pad at 5:14 p.m. EDT (2114 GMT; 10:14 a.m. on Oct. 29 local New Zealand time).

The Soil Health in Space experiment is now being conducted on the ISS, which could lead to sustainable farming on the Moon, Mars, and also Earth! The post What Martian Settlers Need to Know About Soil Can Teach us How to...

Launchspace Technologies Corp. announced a contract Oct. 28 with Airbus to test its Orbital Debris Collection and Spacecraft Shielding payload for 12 months on the Bartolomeo platform on the International Space Station. ...

As Hurricane Zeta churned toward the northern Gulf Coast today (Oct. 28), the International Space Station captured some incredible views of the massive storm from orbit.

If NASA's long-silent Opportunity Mars rover could phone home one last time to sing a sweet, sentimental song to its Earthly overlords from its dusty grave, it might go a little something like this.

Our sun's death is a long way off -- about 4.5 billion years, give or take -- but someday it's going to happen, and what then for our solar system?

“Shifting and stacking” method could unveil the elusive world and other objects in the outer solar system --

Tupperware Brands is looking beyond the kitchen by going to space.

SpaceX, having established a formidable reputation in rocket launches, is starting to roll out what it hopes will be an even more muscular arm of its business: broadband internet service.

Scientists have found the second place where a bouncing European lander touched down on Comet 67P six years ago, and the discovery is shedding light on the icy wanderer's composition.

Rocket Lab will loft 10 new Earth-imaging satellites into orbit today (Oct. 28) and you can watch it live.

After years of detective work, the second touchdown site of Rosetta's Philae lander has been located on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in a site that resembles the shape of a skull. Philae left its imprint in billions-o...

Examining coastal sea rise, tracking underwater ocean waves and adding to long-term data about climate change will be the main scientific return of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite mission.

Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like features such as tails and comae--clouds of dust particles and gas--even though they orb...

Observational astronomy, largely shutdown since March, is getting back to work thanks to slowly declining COVID-19 cases in Chile and new workplace practices.

Air Force Col. Michael "Hopper" Hopkins, commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission, will be commissioned into the U.S. Space Force. SpaceNews