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Rocket Lab launched six smallsats for a variety of commercial and government customers March 22 on a mission also intended to demonstrate the performance of its own smallsat bus. SpaceNews

Water is leaking from Mars' atmosphere through changing seasons and swirling Martian storms, scientists found in two new studies.

On March 14, Paraguay's first-ever satellite entered orbit around Earth.

In conjunction with the Navajo Nation, the Perseverance mission team is designating features in the Jezero Crater with Najavo names The post Rocks and Other Features at Perseverance’s Landing Site are Getting Navajo Na...

The Space Force launched its first small rocket of 2021 this month in an experiment that dumped water vapor into Earth's ionosphere.

SpaceX will launch its next fleet of Starlink satellites into orbit for the company's broadband megaconstellation on Wednesday (March 24).

We may be just over two weeks away from the first powered flight by an aircraft on an alien world.

Three asteroids are making close approaches to our planet today (March 23), but don't worry; the small rocks pose no threat.

Perseverance has already made its mark on scientific history by taking the first audio recording ever on Mars. But the instrument with the microphone, known as the SuperCam, wasn't done there. It has plenty of other scie...

Deep space missions to Mars will be much more physically and mentally demanding than the journeys we've made so far during 60 years of human space exploration.

The March 22 launch of South Korea's CAS500-1 remote sensing satellite has marked the beginning of the country's journey toward the domestic satellite industry being driven by the private sector. SpaceNews

Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism that's believed to be the world's first computer.

Writer and director Neill Blomkamp has said that a sequel to his directorial debut, the epic, gritty sci-fi "District 9," is on its way.

Lithuanian nanosatellite maker Nanoavionics is moving into the heavier microsatellite market as it looks to grow fivefold by 2025. SpaceNews

With the arrival of spring, an iconic garden has now sprouted a bright blue new addition -- a last-of-its-kind launch vehicle. The United Launch Alliance Delta II debuted in the iconic rocket garden at NASA's Kennedy Spa...

NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

NASA's newest fleet of far-out exploration ideas include projects on topics such as Titan sample return, artificial gravity for astronauts, and collecting vast amounts of planetary data.

From discovering planets to following comets, women all over the world play a crucial role in astronomy.

"Artemis will not survive if it is now cast as a partisan program," Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kans.) writes in this op-ed calling on President Biden's nominee for NASA administrator to support the Artemis moon program despite ...

Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with Omnispace to share business and technical information on the deployment of 5G networking technology in space. SpaceNews

A new mathematical application provides a more complete picture of our changing world by drawing on data from several kinds of sensors.