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Images of the Arabian Peninsula, captured by ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on board the International Space Station....

The final figures are in and the number of people who applied to ESA's 2021-22 astronaut vacancy has been broken down by Member and Cooperating State. The window to apply for ESA's astronaut vacancy opened on 31 March 20...

Elon Musk will give a status update on SpaceX's huge Starship Mars rocket tonight (Feb. 10), and you can watch it live.

You can see 34 new satellites rocket to orbit at 1:09 p.m. EST (1809 GMT).

Once known as "Lagrange," ESA's upcoming space weather mission needed a new name that would reflect its vital role: helping to protect Earth's infrastructure, satellites, inhabitants and space explorers from unpredictabl...

NASA says that SpaceX's proposal for a second-generation Starlink constellation with 30,000 satellites could lead to a "significant increase" in potential collisions in low Earth orbit and interfere with the agency's lau...

The U.S. Space Force is trying to identify what launch companies might challenge SpaceX and United Launch Alliance when their current contracts are re-competed in 2024. The post Space Force asks launch companies for insi...

NASA has selected two science missions - the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm - to help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the Sun, the Sun-Earth connection, and the constantly changing space env...

Astra failed to deliver four satellites to orbit as planned today (Feb. 10) in the company's first-ever orbital launch from the contiguous United States.

The first operational launch of Astra's Rocket 3.3 vehicle failed Feb. 10 when the rocket's upper stage appeared to tumble out of control after stage separation. The post Astra launch of NASA-sponsored cubesats fails app...

NASA has awarded three contracts under the on-ramp feature of the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid IV) contract. These multi-agency contracts are available to support all NASA centers and other federal agencies.

NASA brought its concern with SpaceX's megaconstellation to the Federal Communications Commission.

Researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered a new clue in the search for the origin of life, by showing that peptides can form on dust under conditio...

Pieces of rock from the asteroid Ryugu splashed down on Earth in 2020. Now, scientists studying the samples are revealing the asteroid's true nature.

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket launched 34 new broadband satellites for the OneWeb constellation to space today (Feb. 10).

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is set Thursday night to deliver an eagerly-awaited update on SpaceX's Starship, a prototype rocket the company is developing for crewed interplanetary exploration.

The Space Force wants to partner with private companies on debris removal initiatives, said vice chief of space operations Gen. David "DT" Thompson. The post Space Force eager to invest in debris removal projects appeare...

Elon Musk's SpaceX has reassembled the world's tallest rocket ahead of a highly anticipated update on the company's Starship vehicle tonight (Feb. 10).

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 11, to share progress made in the early stages of aligning the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors.

A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Sony Computer Science Laboratories has begun to search for life on other planets using a tool that analyzes statistical complexity. In their paper pub...

Using satellite data, scientists have mapped massive methane plumes caused by human activities around the world.

New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on unexplained aspects of the Universe.