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Scientist, engineer, test subject and tradesperson--astronauts in orbit wear many different hats. In this 360° timelapse, ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer works to repair a faulty valve behind EXPRESS-Rack 3.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster will crash into the moon on March 4, and you can track the rogue rocket during live webcasts on Feb. 7 and Feb.

Star formation in the Milky Way primarily occurs in long, dense filaments of gas and dust that stretch along the spiral arms. Dubbed "bones" because they delineate the galaxy's densest skeletal spiral structures, these f...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has launched a new center to fight the threat of satellite megaconstellations, which it now describes as worse than urban light pollution.

NASA expects that retiring the International Space Station in favor of leasing capacity on commercial space stations will ultimately save the agency up to $1.8 billion per year. The post NASA outlines cost savings from I...

NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment, and atmospheric samples from the surface of the R...

The rocket stage helped heft the Echostar 23 satellite to orbit in 2017.

According to new NASA-sponsored research, Mars may have had an ocean as recent as 3 billion years ago (500 million years longer than expected). The post Mars Could Have Been wet for Much Longer Than Previously Believed a...

A SpaceX rocket's upper stage was caught on camera careening toward a collision course with the moon.

The first-stage engines of Astra's Launch Vehicle 0008 fired up as planned today (Feb. 7), but the rocket aborted the liftoff try shortly thereafter due to a telemetry issue.

Our universe was born 13.7 billion years ago in a massive expansion that blew space up like a giant balloon.

Astra Space aborted and then scrubbed a launch of its Rocket 3.3 small launch vehicle Feb. 7 seconds before liftoff. The post Astra aborts launch attempt appeared first on SpaceNews.

Set aside since the 70s, the pristine sample container holds clues to the moon's past and future.

Elon Musk will give a big Starship update -- his first since the fall of 2019 -- on Thursday (Feb. 10) at 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT on Feb. 11).

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski's visit Friday, Feb. 4, to NASA Headquarters in Washington:

It will soon be time to bid a fond adieu to an object that has been a fixture in our evening sky since late last summer: the planet Jupiter.

A new rocket company on the Space Coast looked to make its first launch on a mission for NASA Saturday as Astra Space lined up its Rocket 3 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but an issue on the Eastern Range cause...

A new SpaceX video has captured a striking view of two critical moments in any rocket launch: stage separation for its booster and nose cone jettison.

Although meteorites are known to fall all over the world, the environment and unique processes in Antarctica make them somewhat easier to find on the pristine, snowy landscape. Still, collecting meteorites in Antarctica ...

Could we mine Earth's newly discovered companion?

Be glad you'll never get a house call from these doctors, who used their medical training and scientific knowledge for murder.

Dark matter has long been a mystery to astronomers, in no small part because it is so hard to measure directly. Its influence is plain when looking at its gravitational effects on objects such as far away galaxies, but m...