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A test flight of SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle is on hold as the company awaits approval from the FAA, a delay that has publicly aggravated the company's chief executive. SpaceNews

The CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has captured its 20,000th image of Mars.

Zircon crystals found in stream sediments in Greenland have revealed how the Earth's crust rapidly grew during peak mantle activity.

The first complete upper stage of Europe's new Ariane 6 launch vehicle has left ArianeGroup in Bremen and is now on its way to the DLR German Aerospace Center in Lampoldshausen, Germany. Hot firing tests performed in nea...

The U.S. Space Force on Jan. 29 revealed its new rank structure. The service for the most part is adopting the U.S. Air Force ranks. SpaceNews

The window of opportunity for "Galaxy Quest 2" is fast passing by; a "Picard"-like nostalgia fest would not honor the original.

SpaceX is now targeting Monday (Feb. 1) for a highly anticipated test flight that will send its Starship SN9 vehicle about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) into the South Texas skies.

Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright helped find four exoplanets circling the sunlike star HD 108236.

The Doomsday Clock -- a hypothetical clock that measures our nearness to utter annihilation, represented by the midnight hour -- maintains last year's time.

Ahead of World Wetlands Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Titicaca - one of the largest lakes in South America....

Four Expedition 64 astronauts are winding down today following Wednesday's near seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station....

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No one has visited the moon since 1972. But with the advent of commercial human spaceflight, the urge to return is resurgent and generating a new space race. NASA has selected the private company SpaceX to be part of its...

The first complete upper stage of Europe's new Ariane 6 launch vehicle has left ArianeGroup in Bremen and is now on its way to the DLR German Aerospace Center in Lampoldshausen, Germany. Hot firing tests performed in nea...

New research from the University of Manchester suggests using a strategy linked to cooperative game playing known as 'game theory' in order to maximize the potential of finding intelligent alien life.

Zooniverse brings out the best of the internet – it leverages the skills of average people to perform scientific feats that would be impossible otherwise. One of the tasks that a Zooniverse project called Backyard Worl...

With a suite of new national and international spacecraft primed to explore the Red Planet after their arrival next month, NASA's MAVEN mission is ready to provide support and continue its study of the Martian atmosphere...

NASA is considering changing the orbit of one of its oldest Mars spacecraft, a move intended to support the Mars 2020 mission after landing but which could affect both its science and support of other missions. SpaceNews

With less than two weeks before the country's first-ever interplanetary mission slips into orbit around Mars, United Arab Emirates scientists can't wait for the Hope orbiter's arrival.

NASA has issued a request for information for launch services for its Europa Clipper mission, a sign the agency is taking advantage of language in a recent appropriations bill that allows it to consider alternatives to t...

Ahead of World Wetlands Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Titicaca - one of the largest lakes in South America.

The high schoolers turned scientists published their findings this week, thanks to a research mentorship program at the Center for Astrophysics; Harvard and Smithsonian...