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Watch Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti and Russia's Oleg Artemyev deploy nanosatellites and do maintenance work during their spacewalk Thursday (July 21).

The JWST is grabbing headlines and eyeballs as its mission gains momentum. The telescope recently imaged M74 (NGC 628) with its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI.) Judy Schmidt, a well-known amateur astronomy image processor...

European small launch vehicle developer Isar Aerospace has signed an agreement with the French space agency CNES to launch its Spectrum rocket from French Guiana. The post Isar Aerospace to launch from French Guiana appe...

The Comedy Central host talks about how the new images from NASA's deep-space telescope blew his mind.

NASA is delaying the next commercial crew mission to the International Space Station by nearly a month after the Falcon 9 booster that will launch it was damaged during transport across the country for testing. The post ...

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have new details to share on how they will bring pieces of Mars to Earth, and they'll share their plans next week.

Ahead of the Artemis I flight test, NASA is inviting media to its Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday, Aug. 5, for a detailed mission briefing and a behind-the-scenes look at facilities that will enable a long-term hu...

SpaceX's next Dragon passengers will need to wait a little longer to get off the ground.

NASA has awarded Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts a contract to deliver Artemis science investigations to the Moon in 2025.

A new study by a Japanese research team shows that long term exposure to microgravity not only affect muscles and bones, but nerves. The post Japanese Researchers Show how Microgravity Affects Astronauts’ Muscles and N...

Attempts to directly detect dark matter have come up empty. A team of physicists have proposed a brand new method: if dark matter exists in clumps that occasionally pass through the solar system, we may be able to detect...

In its proposed 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, the Senate Armed Services Committee directs the Pentagon's outside business advisors to review the acquisition process for space programs The post Senate NDAA dire...

SpaceX aborted the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of the company's Starlink internet satellites just before liftoff on Thursday (July 21).

The surface of the moon and rocky planets--Mars in particular--are of huge interest to anyone trying to explore our solar system. The surface must be known in as much detail as possible, for missions to land safely, or f...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 27, to discuss the architecture for its Mars Sample Return campaign.

By applying a machine-learning technique, a neural network method, to gigantic amounts of simulation data about the formation of cosmic structures in the universe, a team of researchers has developed a very fast and high...

SpaceX is venturing into the toy business.

Writer/director David A. Weiner presents another plunge into the past in his new sci-fi movie salute to the '80s, "In Search of Tomorrow."

The world is still reeling from the release of the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) first images. These provided a comprehensive overview of the kind of science operations that Webb will conduct over its 20-year missi...

NASA's telescope-carrying jet has been damaged in a storm in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Department of Defense has created a new office to track unidentified objects in space and air, under water, or that appear to travel between these domains.

Italian Samantha Cristoforetti became the first European woman astronaut to embark on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, NASA footage showed.