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Turkey plans to send a rover to the moon by the end of the decade using a domestically built rocket engine that will first fly to the moon in a test mission in 2023.

Fresh off a nearly $12 million funding round, startup space company Launcher announced a new satellite platform to carry stacks of CubeSats into space.

NASA is working quickly to fix the Hubble Space Telescope after an issue with a 1980s-era computer on board caused the famous orbiting observatory to temporarily shut down.

The rotation of the Milky Way bar has slowed by almost a quarter since its formation.

Young stars can release flares more powerful than our sun's largest on record once a week, according to a massive new analysis of stellar activity.

NASA is commemorating Juneteenth on Saturday (June 19) with a historic view from space.

SES has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services, enabling satellite customers to connect directly to its cloud-based applications. SpaceNews

The community ponders about the most important questions in space exploration and interrogates dark matter.

Rather than move forward with efforts to work with industry on space traffic management solutions, the Commerce Department is funding studies of topics that in some cases were addressed in a report last year by NAPA, ris...

After being developed via a virtual learning experience, more than 70 experiments built by university students across the United States are ready for flight on NASA suborbital flight vehicles.

The SETI Institute and Frontier Development Lab (FDL.ai) are announcing the launch of SpaceML.org. SpaceML is a resource that makes AI-ready datasets available to researchers working in space science and exploration, ena...

In a study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr. Zhao Ergang and Prof. Qian Shengbang from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed rapid mass transfer between the tw...

It could be a milestone on the path to detecting life on other planets: Scientists under the leadership of the University of Bern and of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS detect a key molecular...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

There's a problem brewing overhead. Invisible to the naked eye and relatively unheard of, it threatens our future in space--space debris.

A House aviation subcommittee hearing on commercial space transportation June 16 plowed familiar ground, revisiting a wide range of issues that have yet to be resolved. SpaceNews

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Thousands of images of Earth and space have been taken by a compact space imaging payload developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers and its collaborator Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.

China launched a group of classified Yaogan-30 satellites and one commercial satellite on a Long March 2C rocket early Friday. SpaceNews

NCCR PlanetS: It could be a milestone on the path to detecting life on other planets: Scientists under the leadership of the University of Bern and of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS detect a...

Week in images: 14 - 18 June 2021 Discover our week through the lens

The UK's new National Space Propulsion Facility has been declared open. ESA oversaw the design, assembly and commissioning of the facility - equipped to test-fire the most powerful classes of rocket engines used aboard s...