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Late Thursday night (Sept. 30) in the southeastern United States, anybody looking up could have glimpsed a brilliant streak, trailing down into the Atlantic Ocean off Florida's east coast.

In the star system GW Ori, three stars orbit one another. New research suggests there's probably a planet in the mix, too.

A joint European-Japanese spacecraft is set to fly by Mercury for the first time late Friday on its path to deliver two probes into the planet's orbit in 2025.

The Defense Innovation Unit in a new solicitation is asking the companies for ideas on how to build a "hybrid architecture" of government and commercial satellites. SpaceNews

Thomas Pesquet: Sometimes I look at the stars and think of all the other spacecraft out there....

Thomas Pesquet: Megan working on the Boeing/miniPCR bio Genes in Space-8 experiment. Students can propose cells to examine their DNA and how they adapt to spaceflight....

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre....

The SWAC briefing Oct. 27 is not about contract opportunities but rather a strategic-level discussion about capabilities the Space Force will need in the coming years. SpaceNews

The BepiColombo mission captured its first up-close look at the planet Mercury in a flyby, revealing a rocky world covered with craters.

A U.S. resupply ship departed the International Space Station on Thursday morning and will return to Earth in the evening....

The color of 2022 will be "bright skies," according to paint manufacturer Dulux.

Ben Robinson and Ian Spelling discuss how a loving salute to the original "Star Trek" series came together.

That enigmatic U.S. military X-37B robotic space drone has now chalked up more than 500 days circling the Earth.

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has captured its first views of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby last night.

Image: Hello Mercury

High radiation, low gravity and other environmental pressures could spur Martian humans to mutate relatively quicker than on Earth.