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Senior executive says she has diversity firmly in view as she embarks on a spaceflight.

Australia has agreed to build a 20-kilogram (44-pound) semi-autonomous lunar rover for NASA to take to the moon as early as 2026 in search of oxygen.

Is space really the final frontier? William Shatner is set to find out as he boldly goes where no 90-year-old has gone before. Some 55 years after Captain James T Kirk hit our screens in the original Star Trek, Shatner w...

A solar storm hit Earth and brought with it a spectacular light show visible as far south as New York.

Maxar Technologies filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office Oct. 8 challenging a Space Development Agency solicitation seeking industry bids for 126 satellites. SpaceNews

NASA's newest asteroid mission, a spacecraft targeting space rocks that orbit ahead of and behind Jupiter, is ready to begin its journey.

A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) to provide the sharpest view ever of 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located bet...

Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service, said the Space Force met its goal last year of recruiting nearly 400 guardians. Next year the target has been raised to 500. SpaceNews

NASA's Science Mission Directorate will hold a community town hall meeting at 3 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 18.

As satellites collect larger and larger amounts of data, engineers and researchers are implementing solutions to manage these huge increases.

So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we’ll have the capability to deter asteroids from undesirable encounters with Earth. And while conventional ...

Embedded Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in space startups, has signed a multi-year agreement with the U.S. Space Force. SpaceNews

American Astronomical Society:

William Shatner's flight to space moved him to tears.

In February of 2013, skywatchers around the world turned their attention toward asteroid 2012 DA14, a cosmic rock about 150 feet (50 meters) in diameter that was going to fly closer to Earth than the spacecraft that brin...

Astronomers have discovered the very first confirmed planetary system that resembles the expected fate of our solar system, when the Sun reaches the end of its life in about five billion years.

The Expedition 65 crew kicked off the work week with robotics research, combustion, and life science as the International Space Station orbits a little higher today....

Venus may not be such a tantalizing target for alien hunters after all.

William Shatner has boldly gone where no 90-year-old has ever gone before with a Blue Origin launch into space on New Shepard.

Star Trek's William Shatner, one of history's most recognizable science fiction stars, finally became a real space traveler Wednesday on Blue Origin's second crewed mission, calling it the most profound experience of his...

An international research team led by Prof. Li Di and Dr. Wang Pei from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) caught an extreme episode of cosmic explosions from Fast Radio Burst (FRB)...

Solar prominences hover above the visible solar disk like giant clouds, held there by a supporting framework of magnetic forces, originating from layers deep within the Sun. The magnetic lines of force are moved by ever-...