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A new NASA video looks at the challenges facing NASA when it comes to designing the next-generation spacesuits for crewed missions to the moon and beyond.

After losing its communications link with the moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite, U.S. firm Advanced Space has managed to reestablish contact with its satellite.

July is an exciting month for skywatchers, as it offers a great chance to get a good look at the Milky Way and its hundreds of billions of stars.

SpaceX has shared an image showing the 33 Raptor engines installed at the base of its next-gen Super Heavy rocket ahead of the booster's first orbital flight.

New research suggests NASA will have to dig deeper on Mars or seek out different targets in its quest to find evidence of ancient life on the planet.

This week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a stunning field of stars called a globular cluster.

The Chinese Tianwen-1 orbiter has completed imaging the entire surface of Mars, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced this week.

Researchers have proposed an experimental sailplane that operates without a motor and that could sail through the Martian air for days at a time.

A fleet of tiny robotic explorers could one day swim through the subsurface oceans of icy worlds.

NASA's next-generation rocket, the Space Launch System, will return to its home at the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today.

The asteroid 2021 QM1, marked as one of the most threatening to our planet, won't hit Earth after all.

Virgin Orbit launched seven satellites using its LauncherOne system last night, Friday, July 1, in its first nighttime launch.

James Webb is almost ready to start work. Now, the Mid-Infrared instrument (MIRI) has completed its checks and NASA has announced that it is ready for science.

Good news for NASA's Lucy spacecraft, the solar array of which is now almost completely deployed.

NASA is preparing to unveil the first high-res images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, and its latest comments suggest they’ll be something special.

NASA has shared an image captured on Mars showing a spot where scientists believe they could find the first evidence of ancient microbial life away from Earth.

If you have some spare time on your hands, then how about helping NASA scientists solve one of Mars' enduring mysteries?

NASA and Rocket Lab have successfully launched the CAPSTONE satellite to space. The satellite will test a lunar orbit for future crewed missions.

The European Space Agency has released a video captured last week by a spacecraft as it flew by Mercury, the planet closest to our sun.

Virgin Orbit is gearing up for Wednesday's Straight Up mission as it seeks to take on the likes of SpaceX and Rocket Lab for small-satellite deployments.

An image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy cluster named Abell 1351, so unimaginably massive it is bending space-time itself.

Astronomers have linked up data from the 64 antennae of the MeerKAT telescope to map the cosmos on a large scale.

A citizen scientist project is inviting members of the public to help identify atmospheric features in Juno data.

NASA recently released the first part of a map of the martian surface, in the form of a 5.6 gigapixel image in 72 colors.

This Monday, NASA is launching a tiny satellite with a big mission - to test a never-before-tried orbit around the moon for a future lunar outpost.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped an image showing the crater created by a Chinese rocket booster which crashed into the moon earlier this year.

Astronauts on the ISS recently harvested vegetables from a system which grows plants without soil or other growth medium.

NASA says there's a chance that its next-generation rocket, the Space Launch System, could launch for the first time this summer.

NASA's mission to visit a metal asteroid with a spacecraft named Psyche has hit a roadblock, with the launch being delayed until 2023 at the earliest.

The European and Japanese team behind the BepiColombo mission to Mercury has shared the first image of the spacecraft’s recent flyby of the distant planet.

SpaceX’s next-gen Super Heavy booster has been transported to the launchpad at its Starbase site for its first static fire test using all of its Raptor engines.

ISS astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti recently took a moment out of her busy schedule to recreate a moment from the hit 2013 space movie Gravity.

SpaceX says its U.S. Starlink customers will see their broadband service disrupted if Dish Network is allowed to proceed with plans for its 5G cellular network.

With crewed lunar missions just a few years away and the first human voyages to Mars on the horizon, it’s one of the most exciting times to become an astronaut.

NASA has completed what could have been the final ground test of its next-generation Space Launch System (SLS) rocket before its maiden mission to the moon.

China is aiming to bring the first rock samples from Mars to Earth in 2031, two years before NASA plans to perform the coveted feat.

SpaceX has just performed three Falcon 9 rocket launches and landings on three consecutive days, with the missions taking place within just 36 hours.

NASA has released a free-to-view documentary celebrating Black astronauts and their contribution to the American space program.

Stars shine like diamonds in this week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope, which shows globular cluster Terzan 9.

Images of four nearby galaxies to the Milky Way show the dust in and around these galaxies in all its glory.

The Voyager probes, the most distant human-made objects in the universe, are entering their twilight years.

Researchers using NASA's TESS satellite have discovered two rocky exoplanets in a system in our cosmic backyard, located just 33 light-years from Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a case of cosmic cannibalism, with a white dwarf consuming rocky and icy material from its surrounding environment.

A signal detected by a Chinese telescope and originally reported as possible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence is almost certainly due to human factors.

NASA is once again preparing for a major test of its new Space Launch System rocket, intended to carry astronauts to the moon under the Artemis program.

A group of SpaceX employees who circulated an open letter criticizing the company's founder, Elon Musk, have been fired from the company.

This morning, SpaceX will be launching a German radar satellite using one of its Falcon 9 rockets. Here's how to watch.

NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, has shared some remarkable images of different rock formations at its next exploration site.

NASA has named the two astronauts who will participate in the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.

NASA officials have confirmed the date for the final test of its next-generation Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft.