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Chirag Parikh, executive secretary of the National Space Council, said he expects the Office of Space Commerce to start developing an architecture for space traffic management, an initiative that has been bogged down by ...

China is gearing up to send a second module to its under-construction space station with a launch from the coastal Wenchang spaceport later this month. The post China prepares for July 24 launch of second space station m...

NASA and Roscosmos are in the final stages of completing a long-awaited agreement to allow Russian cosmonauts to fly on commercial crew vehicles and American astronauts on Soyuz spacecraft. The post NASA and Roscosmos ne...

Space Force satellite operators want to move away from having different ground systems for each military constellation The post A common ground system for military satellites is proving to be harder than envisioned appea...

Georgia became the latest country July 14 to approve SpaceX's Starlink broadband constellation. The post Georgia approves Starlink services in Eastern Europe appeared first on SpaceNews.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ and Spire Global to provide space weather data. The post GeoOptics, PlanetIQ and Spire to supply NOAA with space weather data a...

The US and Russia reach Mars, but old tensions threaten to divide the historic mission in this exclusive clip for this week's sixth episode of "For All Mankind" on Apple TV+.

Several creatures that still walk the Earth today are closely related to dinosaurs.

The buzz among professional astronomers has been electric since members of the Webb team shared tantalizing test images. And the real images are even better than anyone could have hoped for.

NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter is taking a break during the dust-filled Martian winter that makes it difficult for the helicopter to charge its batteries.

Since the launch of the first man-made earth satellite, the number of space objects has been rapidly increasing. According to the authoritative statistics from NASA, over 6,400 orbiting spacecraft still existed until ear...

A swarm? Of bugs?

The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery has only just begun.

China has sent a new data relay satellite on its way to geostationary orbit to support the nation's crewed space station project.

Highly energetic and difficult to detect, neutrinos travel billions of light years before reaching our planet. Although it is known that these elementary particles come from the depths of our universe, their precise orig...

Human and machine intelligence worked together to find 40,000 ring galaxies, scientists at the National Astronomy Meeting will announce this week. Dr. Mike Walmsley of the University of Manchester and the Galaxy Zoo coll...

CELESTA, the first CERN-driven satellite, successfully entered orbit during the maiden flight of Europe's Vega-C launch vehicle. Launched by the European Space Agency from the French Guiana Space Center (CSG) at 13.13 UT...

There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, each containing billions of stars, and found in every part of the sky. But in some directions, nearby galaxies block the view of the more distant cosmos. Now a ...

The moon commences its monthly tour of the planets by calling in on Saturn on Friday night. The duo will be close enough to share the view with a pair of binoculars.

If selected, a proposed Chinese mission to Venus could launch in 2026 and arrive at the scorching planet in 2027.

We countdown the best Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes from an ambitious and emotionally charged series.

NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope spotted a sandstorm special.