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Endurance is scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station on Oct. 30, kicking off SpaceX's Crew-3 mission.

Maxar remains confident that it will launch all six of its next-generation WorldView Legion imaging satellites in 2022, SpaceNews

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will launch in October 2021 on a 12-year journey to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission will include three Earth gravity assists and visits to eight asteroids.

David Gauthier said NGA has to transition away from government analysts exploiting raw imagery to commercial analytic services that can quickly provide answers SpaceNews

As viewers will see, fixing a 7.5-ton space magnet on the ISS is no easy task.

NASA has reassigned two astronauts from Boeing commercial crew missions to a SpaceX one as the agency addresses delays in the development of the CST-100 Starliner and works out a seat barter agreement with Russia. SpaceN...

If scientists want astronomy to thrive throughout the 21st century, we need a new approach: to view new observatories through a lens of public benefit.

Four astronauts are about to spend six months living in Earth orbit, and they cannot wait.

A new YouTube original follows a group of kids who go on a scavenger hunt with clues delivered from the International Space Station, with Vice President Kamala Harris assisting.

The first stars to appear in the universe lived fast and died young. Today, none of them likely remain. But their remnants, the black holes and neutron stars, might still wander around the cosmos. Unfortunately, they’r...

China's new moon-rock treasure trove may be a billion years younger than the material the Apollo program brought home decades ago, according to new research.

A new report that could make it simpler to send spacecraft to some areas of Mars while still protecting the planet from Earth-based contamination was presented today at a press conference at the 53rd annual meeting of th...

Gazing into the universe is like looking into a funhouse mirror. That's because gravity warps the fabric of space, creating optical illusions.

The National Reconnaissance Office is preparing to survey commercial capabilities to provide various geospatial datasets as part of a long-term campaign to establish a new program of record. SpaceNews

Photos snapped by Perseverance show that Jezero Crater did indeed host a large river-fed lake in the ancient past.

The first scientific analysis of images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover has now confirmed that Mars' Jezero crater--which today is a dry, wind-eroded depression--was once a quiet lake, fed steadily by a small river so...

A lunar probe launched by the Chinese space agency recently brought back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Now an international team of scientists--including an expert from W...

The director of the National Reconnaissance Office Christopher Scolese announced Oct. 7 the agency will start buying space radar imagery from commercial providers. SpaceNews

Authors Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan imagine a fantastic tomorrow ruled by AI.

The Computational Cosmology group of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (DAA) of Valencia University (UV) has published an article in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, one of the international journals with th...

Launch startup Taiwan Innovative Space Inc.'s quest to field a commercial smallsat launcher suffered a setback last month when a suborbital prototype of a planned orbital rocket caught fire during liftoff. SpaceNews

In our guide to smartphone astrophotography, we break down how to take photos of the moon, stars, Milky Way and more.