A private Japanese company has taken the world's first close-up photo of an individual piece of space debris, by parking another satellite next to it in orbit. This orbital photo op is the first ...

Editor’s Note: Moriba Jah, an astrodynamicist and space environmentalist, is a winner of the MacArthur Fellowship and serves as faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-founder and ...

"It was very shocking personally, and also for all of us at NASA." Humanity dodged an orbital bullet recently by an even slimmer margin than we thought. In the wee hours of Feb. 28, the dead ...

Bill Nelson told Capitol Hill lawmakers that China has been ‘very, very secretive’ about its space progress, warning ‘we are in a race’ The head of Nasa has warned of China bolstering its ...

An evening SpaceX launch lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force's Launch Complex 40 — just over 24 hours from Wednesday evening's SpaceX launch from Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX officially ...

Artist's Impression of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface. NASA has confirmed that its exciting Dragonfly mission, which will fly a drone-like craft around Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, will cost $3 ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Force’s new commercial strategy is an attempt to kick off real talks with the private space industry about partnering on new business opportunities, a senior official ...

"This means we will have to adjust our views on early galaxy evolution." Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that early universe galaxies must have grown up way faster ...

Texting on the Moon? Streaming on Mars? It may not be as far away as you think. That’s the shared vision of NASA and Nokia, who have partnered to set up a cellular network on the Moon to help ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live coverage of the Wednesday, May 8, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 6-56 mission. Gear up for an afternoon SpaceX ...

Why it's so special: This is a new image of NGC 2685, also known as the "Helix Galaxy" or the "Pancake Galaxy." It's one of the most unusual galaxies in the universe. But NGC 2685 doesn't fit any ...

Around 8:34 p.m., SpaceX will launch the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission from Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch from Complex 39A and will take the payload to medium ...