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A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian cosmonaut and two Japanese private astronauts returned to Earth late Dec. 19, wrapping up a banner year for commercial human spaceflight. SpaceNews

A malfunctioning computer in one of the four main engines of the Space Launch System will delay that vehicle's first launch to no earlier than March. SpaceNews

NASA selected Axiom Space to perform a second commercial flight to the U.S. segment of the International Space Station on a Crew Dragon spacecraft. SpaceNews

Are you trying to get into a morning routine for the new year? Venus is, too. The planet will undergo a transformation that only happens once every 584 days.

Launching in August 2022 and arriving at the asteroid belt in 2026, NASA's Psyche spacecraft will orbit a world we can barely pinpoint from Earth and have never visited.

Mynaric has been selected to participate in a DARPA program to develop next-generation laser communications terminals. SpaceNews

A federal agency on Monday granted a license for a launchpad that would fly commercial rockets from coastal Georgia.

The Hubble Space Telescope's successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair's breadth of the dawn of the universe. And it's finally on the brink of flight.

Two new studies reveal surprising features of the asteroid Ryugu.

It's hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus is a scorched and suffocating wasteland where...

Every so often, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud throw galactic snowballs made up of ice, dust and rocks our way: 4.6-billion-year-old leftovers from the formation of the solar system.

Though he may be gone, after 25 years, Carl Sagan is still an inspiration to many. 

Rocket woes have again delayed NASA's return to the moon.

On Friday 17 December, the Ariane 5 rocket fairing was closed around the James Webb Space Telescope. This protective fairing, or 'nose cone', will shield the telescope during liftoff and its journey through the atmospher...

Missile-tracking satellites developed by L3Harris for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Space Development Agency passed critical design reviews. SpaceNews

We've tested a range of the best beginner cameras on the market, so you can take your photography to the next level.

French satellite operator Eutelsat has appointed Eva Berneke, a technology and telecoms veteran from outside the space industry, to be the company's next chief executive officer. SpaceNews

Tiny human muscle cells will be blasted into space in an experiment that could help people live longer, healthier lives.

NASA plans to replace an engine controller aboard its massive SLS rocket after finding a communications glitch with the system's avionics during preflight testing, the latest setback in a program for which Boeing Co. is ...

European astronomers have observed a source on the sky known as Gaia20eae, which recently entered a phase of significant outbursting activity. Results of the new study suggest that this source may be an EXor-type eruptiv...

Compensating for the lost time may prove challenging for scientists.

In science fiction stories about contact with extraterrestrial civilisations, there is a problem: What kind of propulsion system could make it possible to bridge the enormous distances between the stars? It cannot be don...