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Video: 00:01:09 What's coming next in space? Find out at our virtual ESA Open Day on Sunday 3 October, from 1300 - 1600 CEST (1200 - 1500 BST). Your chance to talk to the people behind future space missions, get close-up...

An international research team shows how combining data from multiple observatories allowed them to detect clouds in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. The post Astronomers Detect Clouds on an Exoplanet, and Even Measure Th...

Planet co-founder Chris Boshuizen will be one of four passengers on the next flight of the Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital vehicle. SpaceNews

A new round-trip commercial space transportation service from 2022, backed by ESA, will enable companies to manufacture in space very pure and more capable materials, discover new pharmaceutical drugs and bring them back...

With the recent discoveries of interstellar objects `Oumuamua and Borisov traversing the solar system, understanding the dynamics of interstellar objects is more pressing than ever....

On 16 December 2020 the Chang'e-5 mission, China's first sample return mission to the Moon, successfully delivered to Earth nearly two kilograms of rocky fragments and dust from our celestial companion....

Rodent research, microbe sampling and Dragon packing filled the Expedition 65 crew's day at the end of the week aboard the International Space Station....

An Atlas 5 successfully launched the latest in the Landsat series of Earth science satellites Sept. 27, continuing a program that started nearly half a century ago. SpaceNews

Isotropic Systems said Sept. 27 it raised more than $37 million to fully fund its flat-panel antennas through to product launch in 2022. SpaceNews

Terran Orbital announced an agreement with Space Florida to establish a manufacturing facility on Florida's Merritt Island large enough to produce more than 1,000 satellites per year. SpaceNews

Landsat 9 will join its partner Landsat 8 in tracking urban sprawl, forest cover and the retreat of glaciers, among other features and phenomena.

The crew of the Planetary Union exploration vessel, the USS Orville, will quantum drive onto our screens on March 10, 2022.

NASA has delayed their Artemis mission to the Moon, but that doesn’t mean a return to the Moon isn’t imminent. Space agencies around the world have their sights set on our rocky satellite. No matter who gets there, i...

Like the speed of an advancing race car driver, the winds in the outermost "lane" of Jupiter's Great Red Spot are accelerating - a discovery only made possible by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which has monitored the pl...

There are plenty of astrophotographers on Instagram, but these are the best ones to follow if you're looking for night sky inspiration.

Actor William Shatner, known in every corner of the galaxy as Captain James T. Kirk from "Star Trek," has a new album out -- and he may be planning a trip to space.

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Blue Origin will launch its second crewed suborbital flight on Tuesday, Oct. 12, carrying Planet Labs co-founder Chris Boshuizen and Dassault Systèmes healthcare executive Glen de Vries.

Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, announced plans on Monday for its next flight and the news and entertainment website TMZ said it may include a celebrity astronaut--William Shatner, who played...

Bring balance to the force with these Lego Star Wars deals, with discounts on the Millennium Falcon, X-wing, & Mandalorian kits.

Deep beneath Mars' red clay surface lie ancient oceans now frozen into ice sheets. Earth's moon has hidden water deposits, too--pockets embedded deep inside its rocks.

Create stunning night sky images by learning to photograph the Milky Way like a pro.