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A new video (available on YouTube in 4K) offers a stunning view of the 2021 solar eclipse that occurred on Saturday (Dec. 4).

NASA's Europa Clipper is one of the most anticipated missions of the coming decade, in large part because its target, the large Jovian moon Europa, is considered one of the most likely places in our solar system that ext...

There is growing interest in protecting strategic assets in cislunar space, the realm between Earth and the moon.

Astra will launch a NASA mission from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in January, the California rocket builder announced on Monday (Dec. 6).

NASA selected 10 new astronauts Monday, half of them military pilots, as it looks ahead to the moon and Mars.

Where did Earth’s water come from? Comets may have brought some of it. Asteroids may have brought some. Icy planetesimals may have played a role by crashing into the young Earth and depositing their water. Hydrogen fro...

BAE Systems received a Defense Department contract to qualify a new version of integrated circuit chips for use space electronics, the company announced Dec. 6 SpaceNews

A U.S. military mission will get off the ground Tuesday morning (Dec. 7) after a two-day delay, and you can watch the liftoff live.

Iron is an essential nutrient that almost all life requires to grow and thrive. Iron's importance goes all the way back to the formation of the planet Earth, where the amount of iron in the Earth's rocky mantle was 'set'...

Venus and the moon make a dazzling duo in the night sky tonight (Dec. 6), starting the moon's multi-day journey past a slew of planets.

Astronauts at the International Space Station got a glimpse of the only total solar eclipse of 2021, which was otherwise only visible to a few lucky observers in Antarctica.

The science adviser for "Don't Look Up," a star-studded comedy about a killer comet, has some serious advice for dodging a threat from the skies: Take the title of the movie, and do the exact opposite. "The sensible thin...

New images of the Running Man Nebula taken by Hubble provide insight into how young stars and debris disks are influenced by their environment The post Colliding Gases at the Heart of the Running Man Nebula appeared firs...

The company received three more mission orders for Crew Dragon as Boeing Starliner works to get off the ground.

NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates from a field of more than 12,000 applicants to represent the United States and work for humanity's benefit in space.

NASA researchers and colleagues from around the world will present the latest findings on a range of Earth and space science topics at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, being held virtually and in New ...

Small launch vehicle developer Astra Space announced Dec. 6 that it will conduct its next launch from a pad at Cape Canaveral in January, carrying a set of cubesats for NASA. SpaceNews

Using the Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), Indian astronomers have observed a young star cluster known as NGC 1893. The observational campaign allowed the researchers to investigate hundreds of young low-mass stars in ...

Image: Webb fuelled for launch

Arianespace successfully launched another two satellites for Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system Dec. 4, growing the constellation to 28 in orbit. SpaceNews

European space firm ArianeGroup will develop a small, reusable carrier rocket to compete with SpaceX, the pioneer of the technology, France's economy minister said Monday.

The Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission--or GDC--is a team of satellites that will study Earth's upper atmosphere and provide the first direct global measurements of our planet's dynamic and complex interface with th...