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SpaceX deployed 48 more satellites for its Starlink broadband constellation Dec. 2, along with two remote sensing spacecraft for BlackSky in a mission that breaks the record for Falcon 9 launches in a calendar year. Spac...

Before NASA deploys its Artemis Gateway in orbit around the moon, the agency will launch a different, but related "Gateway" at its Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Three companies snagged a total of $415 million to develop their private space station designs.

SpaceX has started building a pad for its Starship Mars rocket at Launch Complex 39A, part of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Elon Musk announced on Friday (Dec. 3).

NASA will provide live coverage of key events in the mission of a veteran Russian cosmonaut and two Japanese private citizens set to launch to the International Space Station on Wednesday, Dec. 8, and return to Earth on ...

The big problem might not be time zone, but accessibility of the prime Antarctic site.

A part of the White Nile state in Sudan is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission....

At 1:58 a.m. CST, 2:58 a.m. EST this morning, the Russian Progress 79, attached to the space station, fired its thrusters for 2 minutes and 41 seconds to slightly lower the station's orbit....

Varda Space Industries, SCOUT and Neutron Star Systems were the top three startups in the Hyperspace Challenge SpaceNews

Robots are already in space. From landers on the moon to rovers on Mars and more, robots are the perfect candidates for space exploration: they can bear extreme environments while consistently repeating the same tasks in...

A tiny galaxy orbiting at the outskirts of the Milky Way appears to have a giant black hole at its center, comparable to that of the much larger Milky Way itself, and scientists don't know why.

Early Saturday morning, a total solar eclipse will darken skies at the bottom of the world.

"We're in the end game now," Tory Bruno said Dec. 3 on CNBC. SpaceNews

In a new study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers show that the planet, which is 31 light years from Earth, is one of the lightest among the nearly 5,000 exoplanets (planets outside our own solar system) t...

La NASA está buscando líderes para uno de los mejores trabajos existentes en la Tierra relacionados con vuelos espaciales tripulados (incluyendo misiones a la Luna): el puesto de director de vuelo en Control de Misión...

NASA is looking for leaders for one of the best jobs on Earth for human spaceflight - including missions to the Moon - the position of flight director in mission control at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Debris disks around main-sequence stars are tenuous belts of dust thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide and fragment. They are common: more than about a quarter of all main-sequence stars h...

The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.

By performing a series of real and 'fake' flybys, ESA's Mars Express has revealed how Mars' largest moon, Phobos, interacts with the solar wind of charged particles thrown out by the Sun--and spotted an elusive process t...

The ExoMars rover used in the Earth-based Mars Terrain Simulator makes escaping from a sand trap look easy in this exercise.

Week in images: 29 November - 3 December 2021 Discover our week through the lens

This crystal of iron pyrite, just four hundredths of a millimeter in size, could function as the light absorbing layer of a tiny solar cell--potentially a promising future source of power on the moon.