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Canadian launch startup SpaceRyde said Aug. 8 it has added a second member to its advisory board with the appointment of Mina Mitry, the CEO of small satellite operator Kepler Communications. The post Launch startup Spac...

NASA's water-scouting CubeSat is now poised to hitch a ride to lunar orbit. Not much bigger than a shoe box, Lunar IceCube's data will have an outsized impact on lunar science.

Rocket Lab's launch of a NASA lunar cubesat mission lived up to its name, serving as a capstone for the company's efforts to develop end-to-end space systems and interplanetary missions, according to its chief executive....

SpaceX's massive "Booster 7" Super Heavy rocket prototype moved back to the launch pad Aug. 5 and 6 to prep for an orbital test flight with Starship later this year.

NOAA reported that a "moderate" solar storm struck Earth over the weekend, and another once could hit today.

Soviet-era cosmonaut Anatoly Filipchenko, who launched on two docking tests, first for a possible Russian moon landing and then the first joint flight with the United States, has died at age 94.

When a small asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere from space, its surface is brutally heated, causing melting and fragmenting. Therefore, why the rocks near the surface survive to the ground as meteorites has been somewhat...

If you're worried about the full moon washing out the Perseid meteor shower peak Aug. 12, go out now. NASA cameras have already spotted 'shooting stars.'

The first agency assignments, for Artemis 2, should be announced later in 2022.

NASA is investigating alternative ways to launch four Earth science cubesats after Astra discontinued the rocket originally contracted to launch them. The post NASA looking for new launch of remaining TROPICS cubesats ap...

Ticket sales for NASA's next moonbound launch briefly overwhelmed the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's website, but officials quickly addressed it.

China's Shenzhou 14 astronauts are getting the country's new space station module ready to host crews over the next decade.

Rapidly evolving technology and space debris reported in several places around the world--including pieces of a Chinese Long March 5B Rocket in the Indian Ocean--signal the need for a new era for regulation of space, Fli...

Stardust provides the building blocks that form new stars and planets. New research shows a significant proportion of this stellar material may have been left in the solar system by giant stars going supernova.

The Space Force has conducted a demonstration using "robot dogs" for security patrols and other repetitive tasks.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged globular cluster NGC 6638, located in the constellation Sagittarius.

The shifting of geological faults in the subsurface of the Earth forged the oxygen, a study suggests.

Wow, what a beauty! While we've all turned our attentions to the new James Webb Space Telescope, this image proves Hubble has still has got it where it counts. This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the hea...

New data could help prevent lightning-caused wildfires in the future for central and northern California.

Last year, a team of astrophysicists including key members from Northwestern University launched STARFORGE, a project that produces the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulations of star formation to date. Now, th...

Although this pure gold pin is not much bigger than the tip of a pencil, it is the "pulsing heart" of ESA's Low Earth Orbit Facility, LEOX. Part of the Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory, based at ES...

NASA has announced a new round of opportunities through the agency's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) for CubeSat developers, including educational institutions, to conduct scientific investigations and technology demons...