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A NASA smallsat mission to test the orbit that will be used by the lunar Gateway will launch from New Zealand and not Virginia as originally planned. SpaceNews

Perseverance drilled its first sample-collecting hole on Friday (Aug. 6), but data beamed back to Earth by the rover indicate that no Mars rock or dirt made it into the sampling tube.

The Expedition 65 crew was multi-tasking today working on everything from physics research to U.S. spacesuits to cargo transfers from Russia's new science module....

Want to find your inner Matt Damon and spend a year pretending you are isolated on Mars? NASA has a job for you.

The stellar flares of red dwarfs are mostly directed from their poles, which is good news for potentially habitable planets. The post Good News! Red Dwarfs Blast Their Superflares out the Poles, Sparing Their Planets Fro...

Data sent to Earth by NASA's Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a sample tube indicate that no rock was collected during the initial sampling activity....

NASA scientists and engineers are working to understand why the first sampling attempt by the Mars rover Perseverance failed to collect any material. SpaceNews

A famous line from the movie "Dr. Strangelove" nicely sums up the challenge the U.S. military faces trying to deter China and Russia from initiating attacks against U.S. satellites. SpaceNews

Ah, the majestic dung beetle. The pinnacle of evolution. In all seriousness, these little critters are incredibly sophisticated navigators who have, for millennia, used the night sky to guide them about their business. B...

The telescope is so large, it has to be folded into the rocket that will launch it.

SpaceX's Starship is officially the world's tallest rocket, and Elon Musk is over the moon.

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

According to new Earth sciences research, the oldest fossilized remains of animal life may have been found in the Canadian northwest. The post Animals Could Have Been Around Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Pre...