By the end of this year, NASA may have a new plan in place for returning samples from Mars. The agency announced in October that it had convened an outside panel of experts to review a dozen ...

Five years after its establishment, the United States Space Force remains hindered by its dependence on the Air Force for both funding and legislative access. To address the escalating threats ...

The new European Union commissioner responsible for space says he will focus on improving European competitiveness and security in space.

NROL-126 was the fifth launch of the NRO’s proliferated architecture of imaging satellites built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman. SpaceX launched the first four batches of NRO satellites to low Earth ...

HELSINKI — China launched its first Long March 12 rocket Saturday, marking an advance in its crewed moon plans and the debut of a new spaceport that will boost the country’s access to space. The ...

The LVSAT arrays, he said, would be part of a lunar infrastructure strategy that Lockheed Martin has proposed, which includes leveraging lunar ice resources and exploring nuclear fission for ...

China has announced a strategic roadmap for advancing its Beidou positioning and navigation system by 2035, in a move which could have global implications. The country plans to complete ...

This latest award brings Raytheon’s total OCX contract value to nearly $4.5 billion since the program’s inception in 2010 ...

HELSINKI — China launched a pair of radar satellites late Sunday for a state-owned firm building a 28-satellite remote sensing constellation. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off at 6:39 p.m.

European smallsat developer Open Cosmos has signed a contract with ESA for a trio of cubesats to study the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere.

A NASA mission to Venus already delayed by three years because of institutional issues is seeking to avoid another delay of nearly a year and a half.

The British subsidiary of Japan’s Astroscale is preparing for a critical design review early next year of a servicer that will attempt to remove a OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit ...