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The public has voted to honor Apollo 13 engineer Arturo Campos on board NASA's first mission to fly to the moon and back in more than 50 years, Artemis 1.

The huge object may be the biggest comet ever seen. And it is already showing signs of activity as it approaches the orbit of Saturn --

Our universe is expanding, but our two main ways to measure how fast this expansion is happening have resulted in different answers. For the past decade, astrophysicists have been gradually dividing into two camps: one t...

Tonight (June 29), Russia's uncrewed Progress 78 mission successfully launched to space.

Numerous companies are planning to launch and operate swarms of small satellites in coming years. Earth orbit is about to get crowded.

Mars is known for its thin atmosphere, where CO2 dominates and provides most of the atmospheric mass and pressure.

A long time ago, in two galaxies about 900 million light-years away, two black holes each gobbled up their neutron star companions, triggering gravitational waves that finally hit Earth in January 2020....

Disney Lucasfilm Press has dropped new info regarding three new "The High Republic" books that arrive starting on June 29.

Satellite communications startup Analytical Space Inc. has hired former KSAT Inc. chief executive Katherine Monson as its chief commercial officer and Jose Velazco, former technical supervisor for the NASA Jet Propulsion...

Warner Bros. has tweaked its fall release schedule and the eager-awaited "Dune" has been pushed back again to Oct. 22, 2021.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 88 satellites into orbit and aced a landing in Florida on Wednesday (June 30).

Fluorescent atoms in pigeon retinas provide an entirely new mechanism for navigation, says Chinese physicists.

Astra today (June 30) completed its previously announced merger with Holicity, a special purpose acquisition company backed by Bill Gates and billionaire telecom pioneer Craig McCaw, among others.

NASA has selected PAE Applied Technologies LLC of Fort Worth, Texas, to provide facilities operations and maintenance support services at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Rockets of all kinds are still our only way of reaching space -- but how exactly do they work?

The uncrewed Russian Progress 78 is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following launch at 7:27 p.m. (4:27 a.m. Wednesday, June 30, Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....

Capella Space launched its fourth synthetic aperture radar satellite June 29 with a Maxwell electric thruster manufactured by propulsion startup Phase Four. SpaceNews

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An administrative court in the Netherlands has suspended the Dutch government's plan to sell off 3.5 GHz spectrum, which British satellite operator Inmarsat uses for maritime safety and distress services. SpaceNews

Otherwise clement regions of the planet’s atmosphere are still too dry to sustain life as we know it --

SpaceX is preparing one of its veteran rockets to launch dozens of small satellites into space on Tuesday afternoon (June 29).

Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne successfully launched seven cubesats June 30 in the second operational mission of the air-launch system. SpaceNews