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MTV celebrated its 40th year on the air by revealing a new look for its iconic Video Music Awards (VMA) trophy at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Astronauts are eager to see Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launch to space today (Aug. 3), despite issues with the capsule's previous uncrewed spaceflight.

The giant, 29-engine Super Heavy vehicle known as Booster 4 rolled out to its South Texas launch site today (Aug. 3) to begin testing ahead of a planned orbital trial.

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov gave a video tour of the new Russian "Nauka" module that docked at the International Space Station last week.

Significantly faster communications could be coming to the International Space Station in 2024, after SpaceLink won funding to test its incoming relay satellites. SpaceNews

A weather satellite has recovered from a brief anomaly and is back to studying Earth and its ongoing wildfires.

The latest failure of a Chinese commercial rocket may point to growing pains as the country opens its space sector to more private participation, according to a news report.

Astronomers have imaged an extraordinary black hole picnic of cosmic proportions.

At 27 inches in length and 500 Galactic Credits ($350) in price, this would make the ultimate "Star Wars" shrine.

Aircraft, cars, trucks, trains and ships rely on GPS for location data, while GPS timing signals underpin cellular communications and financial transactions. SpaceNews

Boeing delayed an uncrewed flight of its Starliner capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday over a propulsion issue, pushing back a key test it last attempted in 2019.

Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi will have to wait to launch ... again.

With the advent of private astronauts, commercial space traffic, and inventions such as the reusable Falcon rocket, the space industry is revolutionizing -- one innovation at a time. SpaceNews

Methods of movement for robotic explorers of other worlds have been as varied as the worlds themselves. Some missions have been simple landers, some rovers, and now there's even been a helicopter flight on Mars. But ther...

If asked to pick what color asteroids in the asteroid belt would be, red is likely not one that would come to mind for most people. But that is exactly the color of two new asteroids found by Hasegawa Sunao of JAXA and a...

Image: This map generated using data from Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows the temperature of the land surface on 2 August 2021.

If Earth abruptly stopped spinning, what would happen to everything on it?

NASA's first spacecraft to explore the Trojan asteroids arrived Friday, July 30, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. It is now in a cleanroom at nearby Astrotech, ready to begin final preparations for ...

Chinese private firm iSpace conducted a launch of a Hyperbola-1 solid rocket early Tuesday but status of the mission is currently unknown. SpaceNews

Madness, mayhem, heroics and hijinks -- fans of "Lower Decks" have plenty to look forward to.

Globally, nights are becoming ever brighter.