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Combining data from three Mars orbiter missions, a team of scientists have found undeniably proof that regional dust storms are contributing to water loss on Mars. The post Dust Storms on Mars Continue to Make the Planet...

NASA has no plans of backing down from its moon landing goal despite recent obstacles, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said today (Aug. 24) at the 36th annual Space Symposium.

NASA has selected New Directions Technologies Inc. of Ridgecrest, California, for management systems engineering, software development, project management, information technology security, and enterprise architecture sup...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he remains confident that Russia will remain a part of the International Space Station through the end of the decade but warned of an emerging space race with China. SpaceNews

Three months after touching down on the Martian surface, China’s Zhurong rover has completed its primary mission and is still going strong. The ambitious robotic exploration vehicle launched on a Long March-5 rocket fr...

NASA hopes that commercial space stations will orbit Earth once the International Space Station eventually retires, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said today (Aug. 25) at the 36th Space Symposium.

Astroscale has completed the first major test of technology to capture and remove objects in orbit by releasing and then recapturing a small satellite. SpaceNews

A team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) successfully collected data from the recent operational test of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)...

The search for Martian life has been ongoing for decades. Various landers and rovers have searched for biosignatures or other hints that life existed either currently or in the past on the Red Planet. But so far, results...

There's no new launch date yet for Orbital Flight Test 2.

In the last year, the Defense Department has made progress in responding to the current era of strategic competition, John Hill, who is performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, said A...

Students in Georgia and California will each have an opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

NASA's plan to "reboot" human exploration of the moon will get kick-started soon by a spacecraft the size of a microwave oven.

A team of Hollywood prop and visual artists are offering replicas of the Apollo command module control panel.

Astronomers have spotted the fastest-ever asteroid orbiting Sun — and at times, it gets closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury. Asteroid 2021 PH27 was discovered earlier this month, and it has the shortest orbital p...

Scientists have figured out the average color of the universe by recording visible light from more than 200,000 galaxies.

The incorporation of distinct telescopes into larger coordinated networks can enhance the discovery and follow-up capacity. However, challenges still remain in scaling, deploying, organizing and scheduling such networks.

It was a time of political uncertainty, cultural conflict and social change.

As part of NASA's Discovery Program, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is well on its way to an August 2022 launch.

Astronomers from Germany and China have performed detailed radio observations of a supernova remnant (SNR) known as G107.0+9.0. Results of the observational campaign yield important insights into the radio properties of ...

Phase Four plans to fuel its Maxwell engine with a green propellant develop by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under a contract the Southern California startup won Aug. 18 at the U.S. Space Force's first SpaceWERX...

Paula Trimble joined SDA in January as policy chief and legislative affairs director. A longtime Washington policy insider and former space journalist, Trimble spoke with SpaceNews about the agency's disruptive approach ...