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Students from Oklahoma and Texas will have separate opportunities this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev completed the first test flight at the end of the European robotic arm as part of a successful spacewalk at the International Space Station on Wednesday (Aug. 9).

NASA's Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 3, 2023, that kept the spacecraft on track to hit the aim point for the mission's sixth Venus flyby on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.

Apple TV+ delivers a crazy trailer for its new adult animation series, "Strange Planet."

The Perseid meteor shower peaks on the evening of Aug. 12 and before dawn on Aug. 13. The prolific shower is not one to be missed.

China launched a new radar remote sensing satellite for environmental monitoring on Tuesday (Aug. 8).

In March 2022, astronomers announced the discovery of the farthest known star via an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. They named it Earendel, after the old English name for “morning star”. Now, JWST’s Nea...

Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists Thursday, a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean.

Russia is scheduled to launch its first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years on Friday, pitting it in a space race with India which is also aiming to land a lunar craft this month.

Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.

The answer comes down to whether the big-boned creature outweighs the formidable blue whale.

Viasat is in the early stages of exploring how to use L-band spectrum from newly acquired Inmarsat to connect consumer devices directly from space, including potentially from small satellites in low Earth orbit. The post...

A new kind of particle in wildfire smoke has shown to have the potential to warm the planet far more than previously thought, underscoring the need to update current climate models.

Virgin Galactic sent its first privately funded adventurers -- and its first space sweepstakes winners -- past the 50-mile space boundary today. The tourists on the suborbital space trip known as Galactic 02 included Kei...

SpaceX will launch 22 of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 10), and you can watch the action live.

If dark matter is made of heavy particles, they could become captured by the gravitational field of massive objects like stars or planets. Constrained in a small area, these particles could crash into one another and ann...

An extreme star system is giving new meaning to the phrase "surf's up."

Media are invited to Utah's western desert on Wednesday, Aug. 30, to learn about NASA preparations and readiness to receive America's first asteroid sample collected in space.

Virgin Galactic took its first private astronaut customers on a suborbital spaceflight Aug. 10, nearly two decades after it started selling tickets. The post Virgin Galactic conducts first space tourist suborbital flight...

Virgin Galactic flew its second-ever commercial mission today (Aug. 10), a flight that made history in multiple ways.

The fight between Vader and Skywalker has never looked so good.

While special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) hold the potential to drive space industry growth, it is crucial to understand their potential risks. The post Op-ed | SPACs are a double-edged sword for newspace appea...