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A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has finished assembling the...

SpaceX has taken all 57 corrective actions required by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ahead of the second test flight of its Starship vehicle, Elon Musk said.

Ed Baldwin wants you for Mars. The Apollo astronaut-turned-commander of a private mission to the Red Planet is in need of a few good Martians, as seen in the teaser for "For All Mankind," Season 4.

Dark matter remains mysterious and... well... dark. While we don’t yet have a definite idea of what this cosmic “stuff” is made of, astronomers are learning more about its distribution throughout the Universe. Sinc...

The three companies with multibillion-dollar contracts to launch Amazons's Project Kuiper constellation say they are committed to deploying those satellites on schedule despite delays in the development of their vehicles...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft launched almost one year ago, in October of 2021. Its journey is an ambitious one, and long. It’ll visit eight different asteroids in its planned 12-year mission. Two of them are main belt aste...

Our host star's corona is hotter than its 'surface.' It's unclear as to why.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have observed the changing of seasons on Saturn. The ringed planet's northern summer is cooling as a 7.5-year-long autumn approaches.

The astronaut Frank Rubio broke the record for the longest in orbit mission by an American, spending more than 355 days aboard the International Space Station.

A new image from the European Southern Observatory captures a cosmic wildflower in space.

U.S. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said the Space Force is finalizing a blueprint for how it will integrate commercial satellite services into military activities. The post Space Force to release guideli...

Roughly 5 billion years ago Earth was in the process of forming. Gas and dust gathered with the young sun's protoplanetary disk, likely nudged a bit by the resonant gravitational pull of Jupiter and other large worlds. O...

Most of the moon's permanently shadowed areas arose less than 2.2 billion years ago and some trapped ice during the recent past, according to research led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Norbert Schorghof...

Vladimir Putin met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a Russian spaceport on Wednesday (Sept. 13), likely discussing a range of possibilities for space-related cooperation.

The first early humans to use fire had no inkling of what it would lead to. Fire was one of our first technologies, and humans have been making changes to their environments since the advent of controlled fire hundreds o...

A team of researchers has obtained new estimates on the age of Saturn's irregular satellites, which range from 4.1 and 4,4 billion years. The post Whether Saturn's Rings are Young or Old, its Moons are as Ancient as the ...

Scientists are calling the Virgin Galactic mission that carried the bones of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi to the edge of space a major ethical breach.

Satellite images reveal the scale of destruction wrought by medicane Daniel on Libya, where temporary lakes and river systems sprang up across the desert landscape.

United Launch Alliance, one of just two U.S. companies that provide national security launch services, does not have a problem with DoD's decision to add a third competitor, a senior ULA executive said Sept. 13. The post...

Former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría will once again head an Axiom Space mission on Ax-3. Joining him is a Swedish European Space Agency reserve astronaut, an Italian Virgin Galactic astronaut and Turkey's first...

A group of international astronomers, including researchers from Queen's University, has identified two potential polar ring galaxies, according to results published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Socie...

One of the most interesting and important questions in cosmology is, "How much matter exists in the universe?" An international team, including scientists at Chiba University, has now succeeded in measuring the total amo...