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Before Apollo, many ingenious lunar landing schemes were proposed that could have changed history.

Clinton Crosier, a retired U.S. Air Force major general who helped organize the standup of the U.S. Space Force, recently celebrated his anniversary of joining cloud giant AWS to lead its newly created Aerospace and Sate...

Hurricane Ida, an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane, made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, at 11:55 a.m. local time on Sunday.

IDW rolls out it's 2021 edition of their "Vader's Castle" saga with "Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle" coming Sept. 22, 2021.

The Defense Department's space agency on Aug. 30 released a request for proposals from satellite manufacturers that would compete for contracts to build as many as 144 satellites. SpaceNews

The sheer size of Hurricane Ida when it made landfall on Sunday was clearly visible from a NOAA satellite 1 million miles away.

The Perseverance rover now has a new tool to help scientists and engineers to figure out where the rover goes next. The new tool is the little rotorcraft that was tucked away in the rover's belly, the Ingenuity helicopte...

New research using data from NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission, has revealed unexpected behavior in the swaths of charged particles that band Earth's equator--made possibly by GOLD's...

Two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station Friday, Sept. 3, and Thursday, Sept. 9, to conduct the first pair of up to 11 spacewalks to prepare the new Nauka multipurpose laboratory module...

A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever--a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Small cracks have been discovered in the International Space Station's Russian-built Zarya module, according to a new report.

South Korea's air force will join U.S. Space Force-led joint military drills aimed at bolstering the latter's defense capabilities in outer space. SpaceNews

For millennia, humanity has observed the changing phases of the Moon. The rise and fall of sunlight reflected off the Moon, as it presents its different faces to us, is known as a "phase curve". Measuring phase curves of...

Why Relativity Space and Rocket Lab are both developing larger rockets that could vie with Falcon 9 and Vulcan Centaur for some classes of payloads. SpaceNews

London-based Titan Comics delivers a new "Doctor Who" team-up series this November titled "Empire of the Wolf."

NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and its Stennis Space Center in nearby Hancock County, Mississippi, both faced a wallop from Hurricane Ida as the massive storm made landfall.

The SpaceNews editorial team produced four show dailies, a nightly email newsletter and all-day web coverage during the 36th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs the week of Aug. 23. SpaceNews

One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic is showing up in an unlikely place: the space industry.

Astra Space Inc. failed to reach orbit in its rocket launch Saturday, the latest setback for the maker of small rockets used to send satellites into space.

Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), German astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of a blue compact galaxy known as Haro 14. Results of the study, presented in a paper published August 20 o...

Galaxies pollute the environment they exist in, researchers have found.