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A pair of satellites from Malaysia and India are slated to launch in late June on the Ariane 5 rocket’s first flight of the year.

"They’re going to scatter my bones or ashes on this property."

SpaceX continued throttling up its launch rate with another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Friday, completing a rapid recycle with a Falcon 9 first stage booster flying for the second time in 21 days.

SpaceX appears to have opened the floodgates and begun shipping upgraded ‘Raptor V2’ engines to Starbase en masse in preparation for crucial...

Gen. John Raymond said the the Space Force might consider working with more than two launch companies as more players enter the industry

NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has chosen 110 U.S. small businesses for continued technology development.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has entered a new phase of its commissioning process as NASA announces that the observatory has completed its mirror alignment and focusing process and is ready to move into the instrument calibration ahead of full science operations later this year.

Northrop Grumman is anticipating a $2 billion contract from United Launch Alliance for solid rocket boosters, president and CEO Kathy Warden said April 28.

A southern city hosting China’s newest, transformative spaceport is pushing to become a hub for commercial and international space activity.

British satellite operator Inmarsat is preparing to use its telemetry relay network to support rocket launches this year for the first time, according to a company executive.

A senior manager says that SpaceX could sustainably launch six or more Crew Dragons per year if the market for private missions...

A Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station with a new set of American and European astronauts April 27.

Three Americans and one Italian astronaut floated into the International Space Station late Wednesday after a nearly 16-hour transit aboard a SpaceX crew capsule from a launch pad on Florida’s Space Coast, ready for a research expedition scheduled to last at least four-and-a-half months.

With a mission Friday to deploy more Starlink internet satellites, SpaceX will try to shave nearly a week off the company’s previous record for the shortest time between two launches of the same Falcon 9 booster. The first stage on Friday’s mission is scheduled to fly just 21 days after its previous launch and landing.

The U.S. Space Force plans to request funding in the 2024 budget for space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, U.S. Space Force deputy chief of space operations.

NASA and German space agency DLR announced April 28 they will end operations of an airborne astrophysics observatory in September.

The Atlas V rocket for United Launch Alliance's (ULA's) 150th mission now stands aboard the mobile launch platform (MLP) inside the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) to begin pre-flight testing ahead of its liftoff on May 19.

Celebrate Earth Day by appreciating some of the unique and quirky characteristics of our home world.

Humans have left many objects throughout space — whether it's archaeology or simply littering is up for debate.

After completing Mars Sample Return, Uranus should be the target of NASA's next major planetary mission, according to a major new report by the National Academies of Sciences.

Celebrate 61 years of humans in space, and take a look at the latest news from our exploration of the cosmos.

Astronauts John Young, Charlie Duke, and Ken Mattingly launched on April 16, 1972, to explore the lunar highlands of Descartes crater.

While NASA will launch Dragonfly later this decade to Titan, another potentially habitable moon of Saturn, no space agency is currently funding a mission to Enceladus.