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Elon Musk just became the world's richest person, nudging fellow space tycoon Jeff Bezos from the top spot.

The ability to "characterize threats" is a major challenge for the U.S. Space Force, said Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback. SpaceNews

China is preparing to launch three major missions in the next few months to initiate the construction phase of the Chinese space station project. SpaceNews

Two satellites from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that were part of a SpaceX rideshare mission were damaged Jan. 4 at the payload processing facility. SpaceNews

At 10:10 a.m. EST, flight controllers on the ground sent commands to release the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft from the Canadarm2 robotic arm after earlier detaching Cygnus from the Earth-facing port of the Unity mo...

Scientists are equipping four-legged, animal-mimicking robots with artificial intelligence (AI) and an array of sensing equipment to help the bots autonomously navigate the Red Planet.

The Tianhe module will lift off atop a Long March 5B rocket a few months from now, if all goes according to plan.

A University of Arizona-led research team has found bands and stripes on the brown dwarf closest to Earth, hinting at the processes churning the brown dwarf's atmosphere from within.

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply craft carried a load of new scientific experiments to the International Space Station in early October. That is only one of the jobs the craft has, though. Once it undocks from the statio...

Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite matching up. Eventually, international timekeepers may need to subtract a second.

Liftoff of Turksat 5A is set for

A new measure of the cosmic microwave background supports an older universe, and raises more problems for cosmology. The post New Observations Agree That the Universe is 13.77 Billion Years old appeared first on Universe...

These 366 images of the sun were made by ESA's Proba-2 satellite in 2020.

It is during rare merging events that galaxies undergo dramatic changes in their appearance and in their stellar content. These systems are excellent laboratories to trace the formation of star clusters under extreme phy...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has revealed plans to develop reusable rocket-launch technology this decade, according to a report by SpaceNews.

NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have signed a memorandum of understanding affirming the agencies' intent to continue their longstanding partnership in mutually beneficial research activities advancing...

ESA signed a contract today with Thales Alenia Space to start building the European module for the lunar Gateway that will provide the new human exploration facility with communications and refuelling.

With only about 50 million miles (80 million kilometers) left to go in its 293-million-mile (471-million-kilometer) journey, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is nearing its new planetary home. The spacecraft has begun...

NASA's upcoming space telescope, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx, is one step closer to launch. The mission has officially entered Phase C, in N...

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins performs the Grasp experiment in the Columbus module of the International Space Station ahead of the New Year. The experiment studies how the central nervous system, specifically hand-eye coor...

NASA says it's ready to proceed with the next stage of testing the megarocket that will send the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the moon in November.

A new study shows that due to pollution already released, Earth will eventually blow past Paris goals. But that doesn't mean all is lost.