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Germany has ordered jam-resistant Global Positioning System receivers from the United States military, becoming the first buyer of the advanced GPS user equipment under the Foreign Military Sales program. SpaceNews

A Long March 5 rocket launched China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft Monday to kick off a 23-day mission to deliver the first lunar samples to Earth since the 1970s. SpaceNews

China's launch this week of an unmanned spacecraft aimed at bringing back lunar rocks--the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the Moon in four decades--underlines just how far the country has come in ac...

In many ways, stars are the engines of creation. Their energy drives a whole host of processes necessary for life. Scientists thought that stellar radiation is needed to create compounds like the amino acid glycine, one ...

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting 11:39 a.m. EST Saturday, Dec. 5, for the launch of its 21st commercial resupply services (CRS-21) mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at t...

The 21st SpaceX cargo resupply mission that launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida carries a variety of critical research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station.

An overview of LIGO and how it detects gravitational waves coming from the universe.

After a 44-year hiatus, humans are on the verge of returning fresh material from the moon --

An international team of astronomers using Gemini North's GNIRS instrument have discovered that CK Vulpeculae, first seen as a bright new star in 1670, is approximately five times farther away than previously thought. Th...

Canadian satellite fleet operator Telesat and Loral Space & Communications announced plans Nov. 24 to combine to form Telesat Corp., a Canadian public company, in a deal expected to close next year. SpaceNews

A region on the Red Planet may still be volcanically active, melting ground ice and creating conditions favorable to life, astronomers say.

Satellites spotted gashes in the damaged Arecibo Observatory, which will be decommissioned.

As a month of celebrating 20 years of continuous human habitation of the International Space Station draws to a close, we look back on the first mission of the next ESA astronaut to travel to the Space Station, Thomas Pe...

It was a spectacular launch on 21 November, as the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite was lifted into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. After taking care of the Earth observation spacecraft during the crit...

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers from the University of Barcelona, Spain, have investigated a pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) around the pulsar PSR J1135-6055. The observations detected jet-like structures from thi...

Rocket Lab is now confident that its reusability dreams can come true.

Advocates hope to ensure the fate of astronomy in Puerto Rico in the wake of an announcement that the massive radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory would be decommissioned.

China has been the only country to land on the Moon for over 40 years - since the Soviet Luna programme.

Rocket Lab says its attempt to recover the first stage from its latest Electron launch was a "complete success," but that the company still has work to do before it's ready to attempt to reuse the stage. SpaceNews

Image: Thomas Pesquet works in the European Columbus laboratory in space

(The MIT Press) From newborn galaxies to icy worlds and blazing quasars, a behind-the-scenes story of how Palomar Observatory astronomers unveiled our complex universe.

(Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)) On November 18 scientists from the US National Science Foundation's National Solar Observatory predicted the arrival of a large sunspot just in time for Than...