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NASA will delay the next call for proposals for the New Frontiers program of planetary science missions by two years, a move that could also change what missions will be eligible to compete. SpaceNews

Companies and organizations used a House hearing May 18 to advocate for a larger role in NASA's Earth science programs, arguing their capabilities can complement NASA spacecraft. SpaceNews

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told House appropriators May 19 that the agency is requesting more than $11 billion in an upcoming infrastructure bill that would go for the agency's Human Landing System program and upgrad...

China has postponed the planned launch Thursday of a rocket carrying supplies for its new space station due to technical reasons, state media said.

An online bid for a seat aboard Blue Origin's first crewed spaceflight was going for $2.6 million on Wednesday afternoon as the company prepares to blast off this summer.

Solar panels against an alien landscape, ramps and rods pointing at the Martian horizon--China's first probe on the Red Planet has beamed back its first "selfies" after its history-making landing last week.

The first customer to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital spacecraft will pay millions.

Spacewalk preparations and biomedical research filled the Expedition 65 schedule on Tuesday....

What would you want to do on a trip into outer space? A Japanese billionaire who is set to fly to the International Space Station wants your ideas. In fact, he wants 100 of them. Yusaku Maezawa has turned to the public t...

The researchers found the result by studying a tiny, jiggling membrane. Their experiment could lay the groundwork for further tests of the laws of thermodynamics at the tiniest scales.

NASA Administrator Sen. Bill Nelson issued the following statement Wednesday after the China National Space Administration's release of the first photos from the Zhurong Mars rover:

In a nearby stellar nursery called the Orion Nebula, young, massive stars are blasting far-ultraviolet light at the cloud of dust and gas from which they were born. This intense flood of radiation is violently disrupting...

A rare type of plutonium has been found in the crust below the deep sea, offering new clues as to how heavy metals form in star explosions and mergers.

Bacterial compounds could provide antimicrobial protection in undergarments shared by astronauts during spacewalks.

NASA has named three students the winners of the Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest for their creative visions of a pioneering journey to the Moon. Nearly

There remain significant obstacles for India to realize its full potential, but there is reason to think the country is on the cusp of overcoming them and entering a new era in its long history in space. SpaceNews

The first total lunar eclipse of 2021 occurs early next week and features the largest Full Moon of the year. The post ‘Super-Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse Set For May 26th appeared first on Universe Today.

China is gearing up to launch the first cargo mission to its new Tianhe space station module this week.

Marketing campaigns that reclaim the night sky as an endless empty billboard would have meteoric reach. But how did we get here? And is this the right way to approach space marketing?

China has released the first photographs taken by its Zhurong rover, which touched down on Mars late on Friday (May 14) as part of the country's Tianwen-1 mission.

A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) has shown that iron and nickel exist in the atmospheres of comets throughout our Solar System, even those...

Like an infant adjusting to the new world, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is relearning how to move around the weightless environment of space. His cradle is a familiar place though--this is Thomas's second mission to the ...