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NASA and SpaceX cleared their Crew-9 astronaut flight to the International Space Station for launch, a Sept. 28 liftoff that will help return two Boeing Starliner astronauts home.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will soon dock with the International Space Station as part of the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission, a venture which will enhance scientific research and...

California-based Xona Space Systems is expanding to Canada ahead of deploying the first in a proposed constellation of small navigation satellites in low Earth orbit next year. The post Xona scales up LEO navigation cons...

The two crew members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. This is the first human spaceflight mission launched from Space La...

SpaceX launched a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut toward the ISS today (Sept. 28), on a mission unlike any other the company has flown.

A Falcon 9 launched a NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Sept. 28 on the first crewed mission from a historic Cape Canaveral pad. The post Falcon 9 sends new crew to ISS on first crewed launc...

On Episode 130 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Jim Bell about the Mars Sample Return program and VIPER mission to the moon.

Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), astronomers from Italy and Spain have carried out high-temporal-resolution optical spectroscopic observations of a transitional millisecond pulsar designated PSR J1023+0038. Resu...

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration across 14 institutions, has covered a sky area of 50 square degrees, similar to approximately 250 full moons.

The company will modernize data integration and communications for the U.S. military's Space Surveillance Network (SSN) used to track space objects and missile launches The post Anduril lands $25 million contract to upgr...

Europe has embarked on the mission to put humans back on the moon with a new lunar simulator launched in Germany, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told AFP.

SpaceX will launch two astronauts toward the International Space Station today (Sept. 28), and you can watch the action live.

The company won a U..S. Navy contract to study the compatibility of its Gen-3 satellites with military ground terminals The post BlackSky to equip its future satellites with military-compatible laser terminals appeared f...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, astronomers and planetary scientists have pondered the make-up of this asteroid/dwarf planet....

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will reach perihelion -- and if it survives its close call with the sun, we may be in for a real treat.