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DARPA awarded SEAKR Engineering a $60.4 million contract to develop a data processing system for satellites to operate autonomously. SpaceNews

China's new Long March 7A rocket successfully launched its first orbital mission after its first attempt one year ago ended with a failure.

A red-dwarf star called Gliese 1132 or GJ 1132 for short (astronomers and their fun nicknames!) smolders on some 41 light-years from the sun in the southern constellation Vela, just a few degrees away from the southern c...

Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal.

SpaceX is gearing up to launch a third batch of Starlink satellites in as many weeks on Sunday (March 14) and you can watch the action live online.

Spacewalking astronauts had to take extra safety precautions Saturday after possibly getting toxic ammonia on their suits from the International Space Station's external cooling system.

Perseverance sends more sounds from Mars, the rocket boosters for Artemis I are all stacked up, and preview of a weekend spacewalk ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA....

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Tiny snowflakes of radioactive uranium that trigger massive nuclear blasts might explain some of the universe's more mysterious star explosions.

This week, the Space.com forums finds a debate about Mars and what it would be like to use a wormhole. Plus, just two days remain for our giveaway!

Work has begun on the sixth and seventh mirror segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will begin studying the cosmos by the late 2020s. The post The Giant Magellan Telescope’s 6th Mirror has Just Been Cast. O...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is recovering from a glitch that halted its science operations over the weekend, according to NASA.

The Strait of Gibraltar is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission....