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China has achieved a great deal in the final frontier recently, and the new document makes clear that the country plans to build aggressively on those successes.

An Earth science instrument selected by NASA several years ago to fly as a hosted payload on a commercial communications satellite may instead fly on a standalone spacecraft because of a lack of hosting opportunities. Th...

Astroscale said Feb. 17 it is preparing to resume an attempt to capture a satellite acting as a piece of debris in low Earth orbit, after pausing the demonstration three weeks ago to troubleshoot undisclosed problems. Th...

The European Space Agency will establish a committee with representatives from both inside and outside the space industry to develop options for a European human space exploration program. The post ESA to set up committe...

Aerospacelab raised 40 million euros ($45.5 million) in a funding round led by Airbus Ventures and XAnge, a European venture capital firm based in Paris and Munich. The post Aerospacelab raises 40 million euros in Series...

A team of astronomers has discovered a rare pair of brown dwarfs that has the widest separation of any brown dwarf binary system found to date.

A U.S. rocket carrying Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter is counting down to launch toward the International Space Station on Saturday....

The team tested images and sensors ahead of flying to the moon of Saturn.

Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that was shredded in a collision with the Milky Way billions of years ago. Reconstructing the original dwarf galaxy, whose s...

With California losing its luster as the aerospace industry's golden state, a coast-to-coast competition for space companies is heating up. The post State Fight: A coast-to-coast battle to bring home the space jobs appea...

This could be a pivotal year for the Virginia Space. The post State Fight: Virginia is for rockets appeared first on SpaceNews.

China is researching and developing new vehicles for various human spaceflight missions, including a new methane-fueled launcher apparently inspired by SpaceX. The post Starship lookalike among China's new human spacefli...

Frank Calvelli, nominated by President Biden to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, said Feb. 17 that the United States needs to move quickly to protect satellites so they can b...

One of the most exciting findings in planetary science in recent years is the discovery of interstellar objects passing through our solar system. So far, astronomers have confirmed only two of these interlopers from othe...

Space is the zone above and around our planet where there is no air to breathe or to scatter light. Space is a vacuum, but it is far from empty.

The Sicilian volcano is 'smoking' and 'spitting lava,' one astronaut reports.

The fine-guidance instrument is key to keeping the space telescope pointed in the right direction.

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a new millisecond pulsar (MSP) using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The newfound pulsar, designated PSR J1555'2908, turns out to be one of the so-called "bla...

SpaceLink announced plans Feb. 17 to work with Axiom Space to conduct the first demonstration of its space data relay service on the International Space Station. The post SpaceLink hires Axiom to support ISS communicatio...

When a space rock survives the turbulent passage through Earth's atmosphere and strikes the surface, it generates shockwaves that can compress and transform minerals in the planet's crust. Since these changes depend on t...

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NASA's InSight Mars lander has shaken off the effects of a recent dust storm, likely allowing the spacecraft to collect science data for a few more months.