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Europe's Mars rover will likely miss 2022 launch on Russian rocket due to Ukraine invasion sanctions
Europe's ExoMars rover is unlikely to launch in September as a result of sanctions rolled out by European countries in response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine.
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is starting its first operational science work as it embarks on a mission to better understand our sun.
The first scheduled passenger airline service flew from St. Petersburg to Tampa, FL in 1914.
Elon Musk is delivering on his public promise to bring SpaceX Starlink terminals to Ukraine.
A BlackSky satellite snapped a shot today (Feb. 28) of an Epicentr K — a big home-improvement store similar to Home Depot — ablaze in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv following Russian shelling.
Rocket Lab lofted a private Earth-observation satellite today (Feb. 28) from the newly finished second pad at its Launch Complex 1, on New Zealand's North Island.
On Friday (Feb. 25), Ingenuity notched yet another milestone, this one of the round-number variety — its 20th Martian sortie.
Medical research and tech transfer will fill the agenda of the four Axiom-1 crewmembers after they launch to the space station on March 30.
China's Yutu 2 rover has made yet another curious discovery during its travels on the far side of the moon, this time turning up a pair of translucent glass globules.
Humans are reeling under climate disruption, and there's worse to come, scientists warn in the latest UN climate assessment.
Earth's inner core may be filled with a weird substance that is neither solid nor liquid, according to a new study.
Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the advanced GOES-T weather satellite rolls out to its Florida launch pad today.
Was Einstein wrong? His theory of space-time may have to be killed off if we want to better understand the universe.
Rocket Lab is ready to launch the first mission from its newly built pad in New Zealand on Monday (Feb. 28), and you can watch the event live.
The moon is Earth's closest celestial neighbor, but the temperature on the moon is drastically different.
Space.com reached out to noted experts in the asteroid impact field to gauge similarities between an undersea belch and Earth taking an asteroid punch in the oceans.
The GOES-T satellite is ready to take its place as part of the U.S.'s most sophisticated weather and environmental observation system.
NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space will discuss a landmark private space mission today (Feb. 28), and you can watch it live.