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China successfully launched the final module of its Tiangong space station on Monday, inching closer to completion by the end of the year and a landmark moment in the country's space ambitions.

The dwarf planet Haumea may be the weirdest object in the solar system. Now NASA researchers may finally understand how it was formed.

Interstellar winds are powerful agents of change. For one thing, they can interrupt or shut down the process of star birth completely. That’s what a team of astronomers using the Karl Jansky Very Large Array in New Mex...

NASA expects SpaceX to be ready to attempt a first orbital flight of its Starship vehicle, an essential element in the agency's Artemis lunar exploration plans, as soon as early December, pending tests and regulatory app...

A third module has arrived at China's space station, completing the construction of the country's crewed orbital outpost. The post Final module docks at China's Tiangong space station appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket is once again headed back to the launch pad on Friday (Nov. 4) ahead of its historic lunar mission.

A Japanese astronaut briefly doubled as catcher as NASA astronauts celebrated their hometown Houston Astros meeting the Philadelphia Phillies in the end-of-season series.

Barring last-minute offers from potential buyers or investors, SpaceLink, a startup developing a space-relay constellation, will wind down its operations. The post SpaceLink to wind down operations, barring last-minute i...

New research shows how the seeds of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) could have formed from gas clouds with amplified magnetic fields. The post Did Supermassive Black Holes Collapse Directly out of Giant Clouds of gas? I...

The classified Shiyan-20C satellite lifted off on Friday (Oct. 28), riding a Long March 2D rocket into the sky from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.

The study is the largest ever on radar observations of near-Earth asteroids.

Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth aste...

Lockheed Martin is increasing its stake in small satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital with a $100 million investment. The post Lockheed Martin ups stake in Terran Orbital, invests $100 million to expand smallsat manufac...

You might catch a glimpse of fireballs in the sky this week. The "meteors of Halloween" are back for the first time since 2015, according to NASA astronomers.

Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has peered deep into the subsurface of the Martian moon Phobos, finding unknown structures that could reveal the moon's origin.

NASA and several other national space agencies have recently revived their lunar colonization programs. One of the key factors that needs to be solved is how to power such a colony. Can uninterrupted solar power feasibly...

From his unique viewpoint hundreds of kilometres above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told AFP he felt helpless watching fires rage across the planet below, calling for more to be done to protect this fragile "is...

The iceberg tip is "hanging by a thread" due to ongoing climate change in Antarctica.

The European Space Observatory (ESO) has released an image of a dead star's 'ghost' in deep space just in time for Halloween.

In a recent study accepted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) investigated the potential for life on exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, also known as...

The Mengtian module launched to Earth orbit atop a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket from Wenchang, south China, on Monday (Oct. 31).

The eerie Hubble Space Telescope image was released for the "spooky season" surrounding Halloween