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For decades after its discovery, observers could only see the solar chromosphere for a few fleeting moments: during a total solar eclipse, when a bright red glow ringed the Moon's silhouette....

With NASA "down to the wire" in reviewing lunar lander proposals, agency officials say a priority is to maintain competition for a later procurement. SpaceNews

Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.

Maxar Technologies is continuing to diversify its business but remains in the "early innings" in attracting expanding defense and intelligence work, said Dan Jablonsky, Maxar president and CEO. SpaceNews

Chief Master Sergeant Roger Towberman said the Space Force is trying to balance tradition against a desire for innovation and for doing things differently. SpaceNews

After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place along the way. The object has settled near a family of captured...

In anticipation of China's first Mars landing attempt, scientists are wondering whether the Tianwen-1 rover may carry Earthly contamination with it to the surface.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe nailed its fourth swing past Venus on Feb. 20, and mission scientists celebrated by releasing a stunning image captured during a similar maneuver in July.

Orbital Assembly Corp. recently unveiled new details about its ambitious Voyager Station, which is projected to be the first commercial space station operating with artificial gravity.

Contenders for the title stretch back through the Enlightenment and the Renaissance to Ancient Greece.

"The seeds for everything SpaceX has grown into today were planted during the early days of the Falcon 1 program," journalist Eric Berger writes in his forthcoming book, Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days Th...

South Korea will spend 615 billion won ($553.1 million) in 2021 on space activities aimed at bolstering its capacity to produce satellites, rockets and other key equipment. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced the b...

Senior VP Jarrett Jones said the schedule had to be pushed back following the Space Force decision to not select New Glenn as a national security launch provider. SpaceNews

The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, along with its parachute, heat shield and descent stage, in the Jezero Crater region of Mars.

An Australian research consortium has successfully tested a next generation propulsion system that could enable high-speed flight and space launch services.

Beyond Earth, the general scientific consensus is that the best place to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life is Mars. However, it is by no means the only place. Aside from the many extrasolar planets that have b...

Iceye published the first images Feb. 25 from three synthetic aperture radar satellites the Finnish company launched in January on a SpaceX rideshare mission. SpaceNews

China has revealed the first images of lunar samples from its Chang'e 5 mission following a meeting between China's president and mission representatives.

NASA's Apollo 13 astronauts have been immortalized as a new bronze statue now on display at Space Center Houston.

Cartographers have struggled to map Earth accurately in 2D for centuries.

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has trimmed its orbit around Mars to allow the spacecraft to analyze the chosen landing region on the Red Planet.

Colliding dust particles on Mars probably produce static electricity, a new experiment reveals.