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There's a galaxy not too far from our own that astronomers were very sure was shaped like an X, but a new, clearer radio telescope image shows that the galaxy is more like a stretched-out blob.

A new type of nuclear reactor designed to power crewed outposts on the moon and Mars could be ready for its first in-space trial just a few years from now, project team members said.

A new timelapse video shows the rocket gantry for Europe's newest booster, the Ariane 6, take its first test drive during a simulation of prelaunch rollout activities for future missions.

ILC Dover and Collins Aerospace unveiled a prototype of the Next Generation Space Suit system, which astronauts may use on the moon and Mars.

Using old-fashioned steam power, two cubesats executed the first coordinated maneuver in low-Earth orbit.

They may look like waffle-makers, but China's new rocket fins are cooking up something even more special: the ability to guide rockets to a safe zone after launch.

The launch of a Long March 2C from Xichang last week included a first use of grid fins by China to minimize the threat posed by the spent first stage to populated areas downrange.

Two of the next-generation Giant Magellan Telescope's seven huge primary mirrors are now done.

The Planetary Society has declared mission success for LightSail 2 after the craft was observed raising its orbit with the power of sunlight alone.

A new space station experiment is testing whether would-be space miners can enlist some very small potential accomplices to do their grunt work.

Scientists just captured the first-ever photo of a "spooky" quantum physics phenomenon.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is considering proposals from potential new partners for its program to send a robot to space to repair satellites.

The DSX satellite will collect data that will be used to study the radiation environment in space.

OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture of Airbus and OneWeb, formally opened its Florida factory that will soon be producing satellites for OneWeb’s constellation at the rate of two per day.

As NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first crewed landing on the moon, the agency released new details about how it will procure landers to enable humans to return to the moon in the 2020s.

This week, The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft has successfully deployed its solar sail, which propels the craft with the power of sunlight.

A decade or so from now, astronauts could be cruising around the moon inside a Toyota rover.

NASA relied on the U.S. State Department to implement an extensive global network of antennas to support the 1969 moon landing.

High-orbiting satellites offer clues about what lies buried underground.