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It marks a milestone in the story of human space exploration.

An alleged close approach between satellites from OneWeb and SpaceX led to a meeting between the companies and the FCC, but the companies don't completely agree on what resulted from that discussion. SpaceNews

LeoLabs' announced April 22 that two S-band radars in Costa Rica have started tracking objects in low Earth orbit and delivering data to customers. SpaceNews

Earth Day 2021 is here and the folks at Google hope it plants a tree in your heart with this adorable Google doodle.

Space junk is a growing problem. Better fight it with lasers.

One of the best things about the sheer number of exoplanets that astronomers are currently finding is how some are just very different. Those differences can sometimes undermine standing theories, and prompt scientists t...

People across the eastern United States could witness a SpaceX rocket launch four astronauts into space early Friday (April 23)

When Joe Biden was elected president, many expected NASA would shift direction, emphasizing climate change over human spaceflight. Three months into Biden's term, it's increasingly clear those changes aren't nearly as ra...

Boeing's and Northrop Grumman's payloads will be launched to space in 2024 for an on-orbit demonstration. SpaceNews

SpaceX aimed to launch its third crew a little before sunrise Friday, this time using a recycled capsule and rocket.

President Joe Biden tweeted his support for the Ingenuity team after the little helicopter's record-setting Mars flight on Monday (April 19).

New accounting rules have thrown a wrench into a SPAC machine that has been catapulting space companies to the public markets. SpaceNews

The seven Expedition 65 crew members will wait an extra day to greet the four SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts after their launch slipped due to high winds....

SpaceX will launch a crew of four astronauts early tomorrow (April 23) on its second operational crewed flight for NASA, and you can watch the action online.

As NASA's Perseverance rover begins its search for ancient life on the surface of Mars, a new study suggests that the Martian subsurface might be a good place to look for possible present-day life on the Red Planet.

NASA scientists, astronauts and musician Shawn Mendes teamed up this Earth Day to remind us how planet Earth connects us all.

Earth's poles are moving -- and that's normal. But new research suggests that within just decades, climate change and human water use have given the poles' wandering an additional nudge.

NASA successfully carried out a second flight on Mars on Thursday of its mini helicopter Ingenuity, a 52-second sortie that saw it climb to a height of 16 feet (five meters).

"The sure hand of an astronaut and the skill of a policy expert will maintain the necessary continuity of purpose for NASA and secure funding to get Americans -- including the first women and people of color -- to the mo...

The newly discovered exoplanet is three times as massive as Earth.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took to the skies above Mars' Jezero Crater again early this morning (April 22), just three days after making history with its first Red Planet flight.

Netflix serves up another solid sci-fi adventure with the outer space actioner directed by Joe Penna: "Stowaway."