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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Thursday launched six people to space, including the first from Egypt and Portugal, on the company's sixth crewed flight.

Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle carried six people on a roughly 10-minute flight today (Aug. 4) -- a brief mission, but long enough to change the passengers' lives forever.

SpaceX is making some changes following transport damage to a Falcon 9 rocket, with Crew-5 commander Nicole Mann telling reporters she's confident the system will fly safely.

China sent a highly-classified reusable experimental spacecraft into orbit Thursday, two years after a similarly clandestine mission. The post China launches secretive reusable test spacecraft appeared first on SpaceNews...

Revealing the potentially habitable climate of ancient Mars is a key part of NASA's mission to explore and understand the unknown, to inspire and benefit humanity--and for 10 years, the Curiosity rover has been on the ca...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the award Aug. 3 of a $15 million contract for cloud services to SAIC and Carahsoft. The post NESDIS awards enterprise cloud contract to SAIC and Carahsoft ap...

It's unclear at the moment how Masten's Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission for NASA will make its delivery to the moon.

Spire Global said Aug. 4 it will host a second Earth-imaging payload for Hancom InSpace, which became the first private South Korean company to operate a commercial satellite mission earlier this year. The post Spire to ...

NRO Director Scolese said the agency will continue to build large, bespoke satellites but also will increasingly rely on lower cost commercial smallsats The post NRO's spy satellite fleet to become more diverse appeared ...

The annual Perseid meteor shower is approaching its peak, and you can enjoy the event live online.

An insurance claim for a Malaysian satellite that ran out of fuel prematurely remains unsettled more than a year after the incident. The post Insurance claim for failed Measat-3 satellite in dispute appeared first on Spa...

China launched a carbon and ecosystem monitoring satellite and two smaller payloads with the country's 28th launch of 2022 late on Wednesday (Aug. 3).

Two new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed. Both images include objects from more than 13 billion years ago, and one offers a much wider field of view...

Pit craters are found on solid bodies throughout our Solar System, including Earth, Venus, the Moon, and Mars. These craters - which are not formed by impacts — can be indications of underground lava tubes, which are c...

Europe's unlucky first Martian rover ExoMars can still play a big role in answering the question whether there has ever been life on the Red Planet?

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 10 years, taking incredible photos as it goes. We take a look at some of its best images here.

The powerful Newtonian reflector telescope is 22% off on Amazon and is a great choice for those without much experience.

SES and Intelsat are in active merger talks as a wave of consolidation sweeps over the satellite industry, the Financial Times reported Aug. 4. The post Consolidation wave pushes rivals SES and Intelsat into merger talks...

NASA astronomers discovered that a large asteroid would zoom past Earth on Aug. 4, missing our planet by millions of miles.

For thousands of years, different civilizations have attached stories and symbolism to the same starry configurations in the night sky.

Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on its sixth crewed flight in a little more than a year Aug. 4, carrying six people that included the first individuals from Egypt and Portugal to go to space. The ...