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In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic track was recorded in 1964, when US success against the Soviet Union in the moon race...

LandSpace conducted a static-fire test with its Zhuque-3 rocket recently, an important step in the prep work ahead of the partially reusable rocket's debut launch.

At the end of October Europa Clipper will fly in line with 3I/ATLAS ion tail - but will any of the charged particles reach the spacecraft, and will the spacecraft be ready to receive them?

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang-and found they were far more chaotic and messy t...

We spoke with Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new Q&A book "Just Visiting This Planet: Further Scientific Adventures of Merlin From Omniscia" arriving on Oct. 21, 2025.

Titan's chemical inventory is believed to bear some resemblance to the prebiotic soup on the early Earth.

On bizarre Titan, chemicals can combine in surprising ways, creating host-and-guest relationships. Since Titan is similar to primitive Earth, these new findings could shed light on Earth's prebiotic chemistry. Stay t...

Not even Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson can save you from this Martian disaster.

LONDON - The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is looking to purchase satellites capable of jamming other spacecraft and inspecting objects in space, and it wants to do so on tight deadlines. But experts are skeptical whethe...

An academic dives into "the other space race" as countries work to send satellites and other objects into orbit around the Earth.

Test your knowledge of NASA's triumphs, setbacks, and space-age breakthroughs that define this space agency's legendary history.

The Artemis 2 SLS rocket that will launch the next astronauts around the moon is all put together inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building.

As part of a broader modernization effort, United States defense assistance should focus on freeing Taiwans senior military leadership from outdated paradigms by embedding multi-domain operations, joint training and camp...

Better in-flight streaming and video-calling might just become more accessible thanks to a project supported by the European Space Agency (ESA). Building upon the success of an experiment for a new type of antenna termin...

JAXA has successfully deployed three new Cubesats from the International Space Station's Kibo module, marking another step in democratizing access to space.

The Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 2 mission has been installed on its Space Launch System rocket as preparations for the circumlunar flight continue despite a government shutdown. The post Orion installed on SLS as Ar...

The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia's Pilbara region when mine workers stumbled upon it.

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an image as sharp as, say, the Hubble telescope, you'd need a radio dish tens of kilometer...

All sorts of crazy things have been suggested regarding 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object that weve discovered. Some are simply conspiracy theories about it being an alien spacecraft, while others have been w...

Are you ready to take your first step into the space sector? The countdown has begun for the launch of the European Space Agency's 2026 Student Internship Programme, and you could be part of it. Applications open the...

SpaceX is supplying optical terminals to Muon Space, the four-year-old Californian manufacturer said Oct. 21, enabling its future Halo satellites to use the Starlink broadband constellation as a global data-relay network...

Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.