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A brand-new SpaceX booster is ready to launch a fresh cargo ship to the International Space Station for NASA on Thursday (June 3).

NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter have now called the Red Planet home for 100 Martian days.

Two Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (June 2) to prepare an old docking module for disposal.

Satellite operator Viasat is stepping up efforts to stop Starlink's growing constellation, taking aim at the nearly $900 million of rural broadband subsidies that SpaceX won in December. SpaceNews

NASA will send two new missions to Venus to learn more about how the planet's hellish atmosphere turned so hostile over its history.

NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth's nearest planetary neighbor....

Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus languished—until NASA made a surprising announcement --

Satellite operators have cleared a portion of C-band in a key step toward giving the spectrum to U.S. wireless companies in December. SpaceNews

The U.S. Air Force in its budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 is seeking $47.9 million to study the potential use of commercial rockets to transport cargo around the world. SpaceNews

A Halloween launch for the space agency’s long-awaited flagship observatory is all but certain to slip into mid-November or later --

NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth's nearest planetary neighbor.

Axiom Space will fly three additional crewed missions to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, the two companies announced today (June 2).

Google Doodle marked the second day of Pride Month by celebrating an astronomer, Frank Kameny, who lost his job due to homophobia and spent the rest of his life fighting discrimination.

Two Russian cosmonauts ventured for more than 7 hours outside the International Space Station to prepare for the arrival of a new Russian module.

El 1 de junio marcó el inicio oficial de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico, que termina oficialmente el 30 de noviembre.

A pair of cubesats built by General Atomics for the Space Development Agency will seek to demonstrate optical communications between satellites, and from satellites to a military drone aircraft. SpaceNews

Multi-layer insulation (MLI) is the reason that satellites often look as though they've been covered in shiny Christmas wrapping.

Liftoff for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope could now slip from Halloween (Oct. 31) to November.

A team of researchers at the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics has found evidence that suggests Sagittarius A* is not a massive black hole but is instead a mass of dark matter. In their paper published i...

Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos are scheduled to depart the International Space Station Wednesday for a spacewalk to continue preparing the Pirs docking compartment airlock for...

L'Ralph is one of the Lucy spacecraft's three primary science instruments. The L'Ralph instrument is a multicolor camera which will gather information on the surface composition of the Trojan asteroids, including organic...

An international team of astrophysicists led by the Stellar Astrophysics Group of the University of Alicante (UA), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Valparaíso (Chile) has discovered...