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A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week…

A recently launched Russian satellite is getting uncomfortably cozy with a U.S. reconnaissance satellite, leading Space Command to worry that…

She imagines industrial activity in space, freeing up land on Earth. Hollywood directors shooting films in orbit. And botanists traveling…

Google is building the world’s largest firewatch tower – about 100 miles tall. At Google I/O, CEO Sundar Pichai spotlighted FireSat, a…

A Firefly Aerospace rocket failed to deliver its payload to orbit on Tuesday, creating a cloud of debris in the…

We’ve deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk…

Russia launched three secretive satellites into orbit earlier this year, and they appear to have recently released a mysterious object.…

A crew of four first-time astronauts are on their way home after spending nearly four days in a unique polar…

Four space rookies are floating in a SpaceX Dragon vehicle, gazing down at Earth’s polar regions while collecting data from…

Four amateur astronauts are about to venture where no other crew has gone before, orbiting Earth’s polar region to better…