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With the first Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite in orbit since 2015 and the second since 2017, engineers are busy preparing the mission's follow-on pair to eventually pick up the baton to supply images for a myriad of app...

A Carnegie-led survey of exoplanet candidates identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Satellite Survey (TESS) is laying the groundwork to help astronomers understand how the Milky Way's most common planets formed and ...

Hundreds of scientists with a UN panel reviewed more than 14,000 studies documenting climate change evidence, to create a new report for policymakers worldwide.

Artist Micah Johnson's animated character Aku flew to the International Space Station and back last month. Space.com caught up with Johnson to discuss the milestone and what it means.

The space industry needs to significantly simplify services for customers outside the sector to unlock its next phase of growth, space executives told the Small Satellite Conference Aug. 9. SpaceNews

Congress should fully support the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared missile warning satellite program SpaceNews

NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how the sun works.

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the departure of Michael Watkins, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California:

Fireballs blaze through the dark night sky in this NASA footage of the annual Perseid meteor shower.

With its latest flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, the Juno probe has created a new infrared map of Ganymede. This could lead to a better understanding of the moon's surface and interior ocean. The post Ganymede in Infrare...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 11, to discuss an important finding from NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) space...

Boeing is still hoping to achieve an August launch date for its Starliner capsule amid continuing technical problems with the spacecraft.

The U.S. Space Force plans to demonstrate later this year two approaches to provide rides to space for small satellites and hosted payloads, including a version of a common adapter equipped with a propulsion system. Spac...

Northrop Grumman's next Cygnus cargo ship will launch on a journey to the International Space Station tomorrow carrying with it a bevy of research investigations and crew supplies.

A Northrop Grumman spacecraft scheduled to launch Aug. 10 on a resupply mission to the International Space Station will carry a Space Development Agency experiment. SpaceNews

Stars scattered throughout the cosmos look different, but they may be more alike than once thought, according to Rice University researchers.

In 2012, NASA landed the rover Curiosity in the Gale crater on Mars because the crater was thought by many scientists to be the site of an ancient lake on Mars more than 3 billion years ago. Since that time, the rover ha...

Space weapons meant to target U.S. satellites are a growing concern for the U.S. military. Especially worrisome are electronic jamming devices designed to interfere with GPS signals. SpaceNews

Using the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have detected 15 new periodic and non-periodic variables in a nearby galaxy known as NGC 247. The finding, reported in a paper published July 29 on the arXiv pre-print repository...

China's main spacecraft maker is developing a human landing system for lunar missions as part of a national strategy, according to a report. SpaceNews

In an inauguration speech, the new NSPO chief said he will try to "build a more comprehensive infrastructure for space technology in Taiwan and to develop the space industry and its supply chain." SpaceNews

This image was taken on 22 March 2021 in the Lunae Planum region [16.74°N, 300.9°E] of Mars by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).