Andrew Jones

A Japanese propulsion company developing water-based thrusters is set to test its system on a Sony nanosatellite launched earlier in January.

Europe's mission to explore three icy moons of Jupiter is all set to begin its voyage to the outer solar system.

China last year performed 64 orbital rocket launches and finished building its own space station, but the country is planning an even busier year for 2023.

NASA has funded a new set of visionary concepts for space exploration that could one day prove useful — and perhaps even transformative.

NASA's Jupiter Trojan asteroid-scouting mission has been given an additional space rock to visit, bringing the journey's total to 10 asteroids.

China is working on a new lunar rover that will begin to explore the south pole of the moon around 2026.

China's Yutu 2 rover is still operating after four years on the moon and has returned new images from the lunar far side.

The spinning, solid inner core of the Earth may be slowing down by a minuscule amount, according to evidence from earthquakes.

A classified Chinese technology verification satellite that launched earlier this month has released an object into orbit alongside it, for reasons that remain mysterious.

Lucy is producing enough power to perform its mission despite undeployed slice of solar array.

A Long March 2D rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China on Saturday (Jan. 14), sending 14 commercial satellites to orbit.

An international team of scientists has found a huge new alien world that's on the boundary between planet and "failed star."

China's Zhurong Mars rover remains silent despite being expected to wake up in December — but there's still hope that the vehicle could rise from its extended slumber.

A Long March 2D rocket launched the classified Yaogan 37 and Shiyan 22A and 22B satellites into orbit on Friday (Jan. 13) from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

Galaxies in the early universe were much more varied and mature than previously thought, according to observations made by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday (Jan. 12), carrying the APStar 6E satellite to orbit.

South Korea's first moon mission has delivered a stunning first image from a NASA camera designed to peer into permanently shadowed areas near the lunar poles.

French firm's solar sail launched on SpaceX mission last week.

Two small satellites released from the space station will study how solar radiation affects communication signals and technology on Earth.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson believes China could attempt to stake a claim over portions of the moon.

South Korea's first moon mission is beaming back images of home from its position in low lunar orbit.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of galaxies distorting each other as they merge in a great galactic get-together.

China is looking to put its first astronauts around the end of the decade and we're now getting glimpses of how this plan may play out.

Peking University wants to build the largest optical telescope in Asia and close the gap in astronomy capabilities with the rest of the world.

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