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NASA hopes that commercial space stations will orbit Earth once the International Space Station eventually retires, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said today (Aug. 25) at the 36th Space Symposium.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station celebrated the opening of the Tokyo Paralympic Games by posing with a photo with a torch.

There's no new launch date yet for Orbital Flight Test 2.

A team of Hollywood prop and visual artists are offering replicas of the Apollo command module control panel.

NASA's plan to "reboot" human exploration of the moon will get kick-started soon by a spacecraft the size of a microwave oven.

Scientists have figured out the average color of the universe by recording visible light from more than 200,000 galaxies.

It was a time of political uncertainty, cultural conflict and social change.

SpaceX hasn't launched any Starlink internet satellites since June. It turns out it's because the company has been adding "lasers."

These days, it feels as though billionaire-backed space companies are launching off Earth all the time. So why does Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin seem to be in the hot seat?

Researchers studied geothermal heat flow below West Antarctica, and found that the infamous Thwaites Glacier is being disproportionately cooked from below.

A Russian startup is testing a technology that filters out disruptive passes of SpaceX's Starlink satellites from astronomical observations.

Tokyo-based ispace unveiled its next-generation "Series 2" robotic moon lander Tuesday (Aug. 24) at the ​​36th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.

Venus is Earth's twisted twin in so many ways, what about on the skywatching front?

NASA has no plans of backing down from its moon landing goal despite recent obstacles, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said today (Aug. 24) at the 36th annual Space Symposium.

China conducted its 29th orbital launch of a busy year to boost the country’s remote sensing and satellite mapping capabilities.

Two years ago, Taika Waititi was working on an animated "Flash Gordon" movie for Fox/Disney. Now, it's apparently live-action.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity keeps giving us great bird's-eye views of otherworldly terrain.

Having a dedicated space command will bring Australia into line with Canada, India, France and Japan, all of which recently created similar organisations within their armed forces.

"Today just wasn't the right day," NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei tweeted after a minor medical issue postponed his spacewalk.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he may be able to launch the company's new Starship to the moon for NASA "probably sooner" than the agency's 2024 target

Tiangong will be much larger than the Tiangong 1 and 2 space labs, but still much smaller than the ISS.