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The successes notched by Webb, the biggest and most complex space telescope ever launched, reflect the grit and unity of thousands of people who worked together to place it in the heavens.

The Space Force announced Jan. 26 it has closed down the last remaining piece of the troubled Joint Mission System (JMS). The post Space Force's troubled space-tracking system is officially shut down appeared first on Sp...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious, flickering object in the Milky Way that belches enormous amounts of energy toward Earth three times an hour.

The Higgs boson particle could have kept our universe from collapsing within a larger multiverse, physicists say.

A Japanese company that plans to put a robotic lander on the surface of the moon later this year had to postpone its second planned mission by at least 12 months.

DoD's office of operational test and evaluation will assess "the survivability of the entire GPS enterprise in a contested space environment" The post DoD weapons testers to assess cybersecurity of GPS satellites, ground...

SpaceX has won a contract, worth over $102 million, to transport military supplies and humanitarian aid around the world using a rocket.

China launched the first of a pair of radar satellites that will provide important geological data following earthquakes and landslides.

Mars and Venus will shine close to the crescent moon 45 minutes before sunrise on Jan. 29, 2022. Look to the southeast on the horizon to see them, weather permitting.

NASA has awarded 12 construction contracts for work to be performed predominantly at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, and at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

A Mars probe has snapped a peculiar image of the Red Planet's surface that looks like a giant tree stump, rings and all.

Excavated bones reveal that the horses that carried knights into battle weren't that big in modern terms.

There’s no surface water on Mars now, but there was a long time ago. If you ask most people interested in Mars, what’s left of it is underground and probably frozen. But some previous evidence shows there’s a lake ...

A solar eclipse on one side of Earth stimulated aurora displays on the opposite side of our planet, according to a new study.

NASA intends to continue buying data gathered by commercial Earth-observation satellites. The post NASA to continue buying Earth-observation datasets appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA leaders emphasized the importance of safety and having an inclusive culture in a discussion held during the agency's annual Day of Remembrance to honor fallen astronauts.

A British-American climate scientist who launched on three missions to the International Space Station is being honored with the naming of a U.S. commercial spacecraft bound for the orbiting complex.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over northwest Lesotho - a small, land-locked country surrounded entirely by South Africa....

The Expedition 66 crew split its research schedule between space botany and life science aboard the International Space Station today....

Space agriculture dominated the research schedule aboard the International Space Station today to learn how to sustain long-term crews far beyond low-Earth orbit....

The process of finding potential drugs for human diseases is being revolutionized by AI discovery engines.

The first Vulcan Centaur rocket launch will launch the ashes and DNA of "Star Trek" fans and actors in 2022.